The word
scheme is similar to
schema, and thus has numerous meanings based on the area of expertise and context of the user.
See [conceptual scheme]?.
In the context of
programming languages, the
Scheme programming language is a streamlined variant of the
Lisp programming language. It was originally to be called "Schemer," but the operating system on which it was first implemented had a six-character file name limit, so it was renamed "Scheme."
In
mathematics, a
scheme is a certain
topological space, together with commutative
rings for all its open sets, derived from the space of [prime ideal]
?s of a commutative ring; it is an important concept connecting the fields of
algebraic geometry, [commutative algebra]
? and
number theory.
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