Transcendence

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 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
• Transcendental (album), a 2006 progressive metal album by To-Mera
• "Transcendence (Segue)", a 2000 progressive metal instrumental piece by Symphony X from the album V - The New Mythology Suite
• "Transcendence", a 2008 thrash/melodic death metal track by Sylosis from the album Conclusion of an Age

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 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, 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

Other

• Transcendence (2012 film), a Chinese film
• Transcendence (2014 film), an American film starring Johnny Depp and Morgan Freeman
• Transcendence (band), an American alternative rock band
• Transcendence (Jellum), an outdoor sculpture by Keith Jellum, in Portland, Oregon, US
• Transcendent (TV series), a 2016 American reality television series
• Transcendence (video game), a 1995 science-fiction game by George Moromisato

See also

• Transcend (disambiguation)
• Transcendental Étude (disambiguation), any of a number of compositions with this title
• Transcendental whistling, a Daoist technique of long-drawn whistling that functioned as a yogic breath exercise