Direct method
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Direct method may refer to
- Direct method (education)Direct method (education)The direct method of teaching foreign languages, sometimes called the natural method, refrains from using the learners' native language and uses only the target language. It was established in Germany and France around 1900...
for learning a foreign language - Direct method (computational mathematics) as opposed to iterative method
- Direct methods (crystallography)Direct methods (crystallography)In crystallography, direct methods are a family of methods for estimating the phases of the Fourier transform of the scattering density from the corresponding magnitudes...
for estimating the phases of the Fourier transform of the scattering density from the corresponding magnitudes - Direct method in calculus of variationsDirect method in calculus of variationsIn the calculus of variations, a topic in mathematics, the direct method is a general method for constructing a proof of the existence of a minimizer for a given functional, introduced by Zaremba and David Hilbert around 1900. The method relies on methods of functional analysis and topology...
for constructing a proof of the existence of a minimizer for a given functional - Direct method (accounting) as opposed to indirect method for calculating cash flows