Tableau

Tableau (French for 'little table' literally, also used to mean 'picture'; pl.: tableaux or, rarely, tableaus) may refer to:

Arts

• Tableau, a series of four paintings by Piet Mondrian titled Tableau I through to Tableau IV
• Tableau vivant, a motionless performance evoking a painting or sculpture; or a painting or photograph evoking such a theatrical scene
• Scene (drama), in opera, ballet, and some other dramatic forms

Games

• Tableau (card game), a specific patience card game
• Tableau (cards), the layout in patience and fishing card games
• Tableau (dominoes), the layout in dominoes

Other

• Tableau, another term for a table of data, particularly:
  • Cryptographic tableau, or tabula recta, used in manual cipher systems
  • Division tableau, a table used to do long division
• Method of analytic tableaux (also semantic tableau or truth tree), a technique of automated theorem proving in logic
• Tableau Software, a company providing tools for data visualization and business intelligence
• Young tableau, a combinatorial object built on partition diagrams
• Simplex tableau, a structured matrix used in the simplex algorithm

See also

• Table (disambiguation)
• Tableau économique or Economic Table, an economic model first described by French economist François Quesnay in 1758