Absurd
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Absurd or The Absurd may refer to:
Entertainment
[edit]- Absurd (band), German metal band from the 1990s
- "Absurd", a 1997 song by Fluke, from the album Risotto
- "Absurd" (song), a 2021 song by Guns N' Roses
- Theatre of the Absurd, art form utilizing the philosophy of Absurdism
- Absurd (film), 1981 Italian film
- Absurd or surreal humour
Philosophy and logic
[edit]- Absurdity, general and technical usage—associated with extremely poor reasoning, the ridiculous, or nonsense
- The Absurd, the conflict between the human tendency to seek a certain meaning of life and the failure to find any
- Absurdism, a philosophy based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless
- Reductio ad absurdum, a type of logical argument
- The Absurd, the conflict between the human tendency to seek a certain meaning of life and the failure to find any
Math
[edit]An Absurd is a result, so a number, leads to a provable mathematical contraddiction. For example if there will exists an integer number X>0 for what be A<B two integer Numbers, than the equality A*X=B produce an Absurd. Usually in math papers the Latin word "Absurdum" is used.