Transcendence
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Transcendence, transcendent or transcendental may refer to:
Religion
- Transcendence (religion), the aspect of a god wholly independent of the material universe
- Transcendentals, religious and philosophical properties of being
- Salvation, the human transcendence of death
Mathematics
- Transcendental number, a number that is not the root of any polynomial with rational coefficients
- Transcendental element, an element of a field extension that is not the root of any polynomial with coefficients from the base field
- Transcendental function, a function which does not satisfy a polynomial equation whose coefficients are themselves polynomials
- Transcendental number theory, the branch of mathematics dealing with transcendental numbers and algebraic independence
Philosophy
- Transcendence (philosophy), climbing or going beyond some philosophical concept or limit
- Transcendence: Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation, a book by Norman E. Rosenthal
- Transcendental Meditation, a meditation technique introduced by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- Transcendentalism, a 19th-century American religious and philosophical movement that advocates that there is an ideal spiritual state that 'transcends' the physical and empirical
- Transcendent theosophy, a school of Islamic philosophy founded by the 17th-century Persian philosopher Mulla Sadra
- Transcendental perspectivism, a philosophy blending perspectivism and transcendentalism
- Transcendental idealism, a doctrine founded by 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant
- Transcendental realism, a concept stemming from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant
- Transcendental Phenomenology, a field of phenomenological inquiry developed by Edmund Husserl
- Transcendentals, religious and philosophical properties of being.
Media
- Books
- Transcendence (novel), a fantasy novel by R.A. Salvatore
- Transcendence (Sheffield novel), a novel by Charles Sheffield
- Transcendence: Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation a book by Norman E. Rosenthal
- Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji, a book by APJ Abdul Kalam and Arun Tiwari, published in 2015 by HarperCollins India
- Transcendent (novel), a science-fiction novel by Stephen Baxter
- Classical music
- Transcendental Études, a series of twelve compositions written for solo piano by Franz Liszt
- Transcendental Étude (disambiguation), any of a number of compositions with this title
- Films
- Transcendence (2012 film), a Chinese film
- Transcendence (2014 film), an American film
- Popular music
- Transcendence (Alice Coltrane album), a jazz album by Alice Coltrane
- Transcendence (Crimson Glory album), a heavy metal album by Crimson Glory
- "Transcendence", a song by the rock band Phase, from their 2010 album In Consequence
- "Transcendence" (song), a song by Lindsey Stirling
- Transcendence (Segue), an instrumental by progressive metal band Symphony X, from their 2000 album V: The New Mythology Suite
- Transcendental (album), by UK band To-Mera
- Video games
- Transcendence (video game), a science-fiction game by George Moromisato
- Television
Other
- Transcendental Aircraft Corporation, founded in 1945 to research tilt-rotor aircraft
- Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race, the longest foot race in the world
- Transcendental whistling, a Daoist technique of long-drawn whistling that functioned as a yogic breath exercise
See also
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