Transcendence, transcendent, or transcendental may refer to:

Mathematics

* Transcendental number, a number that is not the root of any polynomial with rational coefficients *

Algebraic element In mathematics, if is a field extension of , then an element of is called an algebraic element over , or just algebraic over , if there exists some non-zero polynomial with coefficients in such that . Elements of which are not algebraic o ...

or 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

Music

* ''Transcendence'' (Adil Omar album), a 2018 hip hop album * ''Transcendence'' (Alice Coltrane album), a 1977 jazz album * ''Transcendence'' (Crimson Glory album), a 1988 heavy metal album * ''Transcendence'' (Devin Townsend Project album), a 2016 heavy metal album * "Transcendence" (Lindsey Stirling instrumental), a 2012 instrumental piece * " Transcendence (Segue)", a 2000 progressive metal instrumental piece by Symphony X * ''Transcendental'' (album), a 2006 progressive metal album by To-Mera

Literature

* ''Transcendence'' (Rosenthal book), a 2011 book by Norman E. Rosenthal * ''Transcendence'' (Salvatore novel), a 2002 fantasy novel by R. A. Salvatore * ''Transcendence'' (Sheffield novel), a 1992 science-fiction novel by Charles Sheffield * '' Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time'', a 2019 book by Gaia Vince * '' Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji'', a 2015 book by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and Arun Tiwari * ''Transcendent'' (novel), a 2005 science-fiction novel by Stephen Baxter

Philosophy

* Transcendence (philosophy), climbing or going beyond some philosophical concept or limit * 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 put forward by Roy Bhaskar * Transcendental arguments, a style of philosophical argumentation *

Transcendental phenomenology Phenomenology (from Greek φαινόμενον, ''phainómenon'' "that which appears" and λόγος, ''lógos'' "study") is the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness. As a philosophical movement it was founded i ...

, a field of phenomenological inquiry developed by Edmund Husserl * Transcendentals, religious and philosophical properties of being

Religion

* Transcendence (religion), the aspect of a god wholly independent of the material universe * Transcendental Meditation, a meditation technique introduced by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi * Transcendentals, religious and philosophical properties of being

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