# 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