Recursive Definition - Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org ![rw-book-cover|200x400](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article2.74d541386bbf.png) ## Metadata - Author: **en.wikipedia.org** - Full Title: Recursive Definition - Wikipedia - Category: #articles - Tags: #mathematic #programming - URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_definition ## Highlights - In mathematics and computer science, a recursive definition, or inductive definition, is used to define the elements in a set in terms of other elements in the set (Aczel 1977:740ff). Some examples of recursively-definable objects include factorials, natural numbers, Fibonacci numbers, and the Cantor ternary set.