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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathland | MathLand was one of several elementary mathematics curricula that were designed around the 1989 NCTM standards. It was developed and published by Creative Publications and was initially adopted by the U.S. state of California and schools run by the US Department of Defense by the mid 1990s. Unlike curricula such as Inv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec%20Soth | Alec Soth (born 1969) is an American photographer, based in Minneapolis. Soth makes "large-scale American projects" featuring the midwestern United States. New York Times art critic Hilarie M. Sheets wrote that he has made a "photographic career out of finding chemistry with strangers" and photographs "loners and dream... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman%20Bass | Hyman Bass (; born October 5, 1932) is an American mathematician, known for work in algebra and in mathematics education. From 1959 to 1998 he was Professor in the Mathematics Department at Columbia University. He is currently the Samuel Eilenberg Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Mathe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20image%20functor | In mathematics, specifically in algebraic topology and algebraic geometry, an inverse image functor is a contravariant construction of sheaves; here “contravariant” in the sense given a map , the inverse image functor is a functor from the category of sheaves on Y to the category of sheaves on X. The direct image func... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Music%20Journal | Computer Music Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers a wide range of topics related to digital audio signal processing and electroacoustic music. It is published on-line and in hard copy by MIT Press. The journal is accompanied by an annual CD/DVD that collects audio and video work by various electron... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converse | Converse may refer to:
Mathematics and logic
Converse (logic), the result of reversing the two parts of a definite or implicational statement
Converse implication, the converse of a material implication
Converse nonimplication, a logical connective which is the negation of the converse implication
Converse (semant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20O-M119 | In human genetics, Haplogroup O-M119 is a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. Haplogroup O-M119 is a descendant branch of haplogroup O-F265 also known as O1a, one of two extant primary subclades of Haplogroup O-M175. The same clade previously has been labeled as O-MSY2.2.
Origins
The Haplogroup O-M119 branch is believed to h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel%27s%20test | In mathematics, Abel's test (also known as Abel's criterion) is a method of testing for the convergence of an infinite series. The test is named after mathematician Niels Henrik Abel. There are two slightly different versions of Abel's test – one is used with series of real numbers, and the other is used with power ser... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Cong | Jingsheng Jason Cong (; born 1963 in Beijing) is a Chinese-born American computer scientist, educator, and serial entrepreneur. He received his B.S. degree in computer science from Peking University in 1985, his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987 and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar%C5%ABnas%20Matelis | Arūnas Matelis (born 9 April 1961, in Kaunas) is a Lithuanian documentary film director. From 1979 till 1983 Arūnas Matelis studied Mathematics at Vilnius University and later in 1989 graduated from the Lithuanian Music Academy. In 1992, he established one of the first independent film production companies in Lithuania... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric%20loss | In electrical engineering, dielectric loss quantifies a dielectric material's inherent dissipation of electromagnetic energy (e.g. heat). It can be parameterized in terms of either the loss angle or the corresponding loss tangent . Both refer to the phasor in the complex plane whose real and imaginary parts are the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Robotics%20Competition%20%28Singapore%29 | National Robotics Competition (NRC) is a robotics competition jointly organised by Singapore Science Centre and Duck Learning Education, with support from the Ministry of Education and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research. It aims to help nurture a new generation of youths with interest in Science, Technolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroinfiltration | Agroinfiltration is a method used in plant biology and especially lately in plant biotechnology to induce transient expression of genes in a plant, or isolated leaves from a plant, or even in cultures of plant cells, in order to produce a desired protein. In the method, a suspension of Agrobacterium tumefaciens is intr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELETTRA | Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste is an international research center located in Basovizza on the outskirts of Trieste, Italy.
Elettra – Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. is a multidisciplinary international research center, specialized in generating high quality synchrotron and free-electron laser light and applying it in mater... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Sloman | Aaron Sloman is a philosopher and researcher on artificial intelligence and cognitive science. He held the Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science at the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, and before that a chair with the same title at the University of Sussex. Since retiring he ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zappa%E2%80%93Sz%C3%A9p%20product | In mathematics, especially group theory, the Zappa–Szép product (also known as the Zappa–Rédei–Szép product, general product, knit product, exact factorization or bicrossed product) describes a way in which a group can be constructed from two subgroups. It is a generalization of the direct and semidirect products. It ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire%20J.%20Tomlin | Claire Jennifer Tomlin (born 1969 Southampton, England) is a British researcher in hybrid systems, distributed and decentralized optimization and control theory and holds the Charles A. Desoer Chair at the University of California, at Berkeley.
Career
She graduated from the University of Waterloo with a B.A.Sc. in el... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20H.%20Bauer | Henry Hermann Bauer (born November 16, 1931) is an emeritus professor of chemistry and science studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He is the author of several books and articles on fringe science, arguing in favor of the existence of the Loch Ness Monster and against Immanuel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gysin%20homomorphism | In the field of mathematics known as algebraic topology, the Gysin sequence is a long exact sequence which relates the cohomology classes of the base space, the fiber and the total space of a sphere bundle. The Gysin sequence is a useful tool for calculating the cohomology rings given the Euler class of the sphere bun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ockendon | Professor John Richard Ockendon FRS (born c. 1940) is an applied mathematician noted especially for his contribution to fluid dynamics and novel applications of mathematics to real world problems. He is a professor at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford, the first director... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure%20tensor | In mathematics, the structure tensor, also referred to as the second-moment matrix, is a matrix derived from the gradient of a function. It describes the distribution of the gradient in a specified neighborhood around a point and makes the information invariant respect the observing coordinates. The structure tensor is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egea | Egea or EGEA may refer to:
Biology
Egea inermis, a species of glass squid
Liarea egea, a species of land snail
Polygonia egea, a species of butterfly
Egea, a synonym of the moth genus Phyllometra
Other
European Geography Association, a European network of geography students and young geographers
Expert Group on Emerg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Lewis%20Bernstein | Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (April 11, 1914 – February 5, 1988) was an American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics, statistics, computer programming, and her research on the Laplace transform. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.
Early life
Bernst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20vortex | In physics, a quantum vortex represents a quantized flux circulation of some physical quantity. In most cases, quantum vortices are a type of topological defect exhibited in superfluids and superconductors. The existence of quantum vortices was first predicted by Lars Onsager in 1949 in connection with superfluid heliu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Carpenter | Donald Carpenter may refer to:
Donald M. Carpenter (1894–1940), United States Navy naval aviator
Donald F. Carpenter (1899–1985), American businessman
Donald Carpenter (singer), singer with Submersed
Don Carpenter (electrical engineer), professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University
See also
Don Carp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman%20Taylor%20Baker | Newman Taylor Baker (born February 4, 1943) is a jazz drummer and a washboard player.
Early life
Newman Taylor Baker's paternal grandfather, Thomas Nelson Baker Sr., was the only former slave to receive a PhD from Yale University (1906). His father (chemistry) and siblings graduated from Oberlin College and Conservato... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotix%20%28disambiguation%29 | Robotix may refer to:
Events
Robotix (competition), a robotics competition organized by the students of IIT Kharagpur
Merchandise
Robotix (toyline)
TV
Robotix, 1986 cartoon produced by Sunbow & Marvel Productions
See also
Robotics, a branch of engineering and science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninewells%20Hospital | Ninewells Hospital is a large teaching hospital, based on the western edge of Dundee, Scotland. It is internationally renowned for introducing laparoscopic surgery to the UK as well as being a leading centre in developing fields such as the management of cancer, medical genetics and robotic surgery. Within the UK, it i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual%20model%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, a conceptual model, or domain model, represents concepts (entities) and relationships between them.
Overview
In the field of computer science a conceptual model aims to express the meaning of terms and concepts used by domain experts to discuss the problem, and to find the correct relationships be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean%20Evenson | Dean Evenson is a new-age musician, composer, producer and videographer. His hometown is Staten Island, New York. He has a master's degree in Molecular Biology. He worked in Manhattan as a recording engineer for Regent Sound with many Atlantic recording artists including Eric Clapton, Mose Allison, Roberta Flack. Dean ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared%20secret | In cryptography, a shared secret is a piece of data, known only to the parties involved, in a secure communication. This usually refers to the key of a symmetric cryptosystem. The shared secret can be a password, a passphrase, a big number, or an array of randomly chosen bytes.
The shared secret is either shared befo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei%20Suslin | Andrei Suslin (, sometimes transliterated Souslin) was a Russian mathematician who contributed to algebraic K-theory and its connections with algebraic geometry. He was a Trustee Chair and Professor of mathematics at Northwestern University.
He was born on 27 December 1950 in St. Petersburg, Russia. As a youth, he ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented%20cognition | Augmented cognition is an interdisciplinary area of psychology and engineering, attracting researchers from the more traditional fields of human-computer interaction, psychology, ergonomics and neuroscience. Augmented cognition research generally focuses on tasks and environments where human–computer interaction and in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball-and-stick%20model | In chemistry, the ball-and-stick model is a molecular model of a chemical substance which displays both the three-dimensional position of the atoms and the bonds between them. The atoms are typically represented by spheres, connected by rods which represent the bonds. Double and triple bonds are usually represented by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feige%E2%80%93Fiat%E2%80%93Shamir%20identification%20scheme | In cryptography, the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme is a type of parallel zero-knowledge proof developed by Uriel Feige, Amos Fiat, and Adi Shamir in 1988. Like all zero-knowledge proofs, it allows one party, the Prover, to prove to another party, the Verifier, that they possess secret information without reve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy%20for%20Technology%20and%20Academics | The Academy for Technology and Academics or ATA (formerly known as The Career Center) is a branch school of the Horry County Schools in Horry County, South Carolina, United States. The school's curriculum includes automotive technology, building construction, business management and administration, computer science, co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20engineering%20technology | Electrical/Electronics engineering technology (EET) is an engineering technology field that implements and applies the principles of electrical engineering. Like electrical engineering, EET deals with the "design, application, installation, manufacturing, operation or maintenance of electrical/electronic(s) systems." H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Tamburin | Henry Tamburin (born 1944) is a gambling author with a background in mathematics and a doctorate in chemistry. He is best known for his book Blackjack: Take the Money and Run which explains basic blackjack strategy, managing a bankroll, side bets and advanced tactics like card counting.
Tamburin is also well known for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall%27s%20conjecture | In mathematics, Hall's conjecture is an open question, , on the differences between perfect squares and perfect cubes. It asserts that a perfect square y2 and a perfect cube x3 that are not equal must lie a substantial distance apart. This question arose from consideration of the Mordell equation in the theory of integ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20robotics%20articles | Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots. Robotics is related to the sciences of electronics, engineering, mechanics, and software. The word "robot" was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20volcanoes%20in%20Ecuador | This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Ecuador.
In Ecuador, EPN monitors the volcanic activity in this Andean nation.
Mainland
Galápagos Islands
References
Volcano page, Institut for Geophysics, Ecuador (Spanish)
Specific
Volcanoes
Ecuador
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20MacPherson%20%28actor%29 | James MacPherson (born 18 March 1960) is a Scottish actor, best known for his role as Detective Chief Inspector Michael Jardine in the STV drama, Taggart.
Early life
MacPherson was raised in South Lanarkshire. He left Hamilton Grammar School at 17 and got a job as a laboratory technician at the Institute of Neuroscien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Physics%20Michael%20Faraday%20Medal%20and%20Prize | The Michael Faraday Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually by the Institute of Physics in experimental physics. The award is made "for outstanding and sustained contributions to experimental physics." The medal is accompanied by a prize of £1000 and a certificate.
Historical development
1914-1965 Guthrie ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Gewalt | Wolfgang Gewalt (28 October 1928 – 26 April 2007) was a German zoologist, author and former director of the Duisburg Zoo.
Biography
After the study of zoology, botany, chemistry and anthropology, his main focus was research of the great bustard. He recorded his observations in the breeding grounds and his experience ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponent%20%28disambiguation%29 | Exponentiation is a mathematical operation.
Exponent may also refer to:
Mathematics
List of exponential topics
Exponential function, a function of a certain form
Matrix exponential, a matrix function on square matrices
The least common multiple of a periodic group
Statistics
Exponential distribution, a probab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy%20Cronin | Leroy "Lee" Cronin FRSE FRSC (born 1 June 1973) is the Regius Chair of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and appointed to the Regius Chair of Chemistry in 2013. He was previously the Gard... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucicarmine%20stain | Mucicarmine stain is a staining procedure used for different purposes. In microbiology the stain aids in the identification of a variety of microorganisms based on whether or not the cell wall stains intensely red. Generally this is limited to microorganisms with a cell wall that is composed, at least in part, of a pol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frist%20Campus%20Center | Frist Campus Center is a focal point of social life at Princeton University. The campus center is a combination of the former Palmer Physics Lab, and a modern addition completed in 2001. It was endowed with money from the fortune the Frist family has made in the private hospital business.
Designed by Venturi, Scott Br... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Boyer | Robert Boyer may refer to:
Robert S. Boyer, professor of computer science, mathematics, and philosophy
See List of Charles Whitman's victims for Robert Hamilton Boyer, professor killed at The University of Texas in 1966
Robert Boyer (artist) (1948–2004), Canadian artist of aboriginal heritage
Robert Boyer (chemist) (1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Allinger | Norman "Lou" Allinger (6 April 1928 – 8 July 2020) was an American organic and computational chemist and Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens.
Lou Allinger was the elder of two children of Norman Clark Allinger (a bank employee) and Florence Helen (née You... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedderburn%27s%20little%20theorem | In mathematics, Wedderburn's little theorem states that every finite division ring is a field. In other words, for finite rings, there is no distinction between domains, division rings and fields.
The Artin–Zorn theorem generalizes the theorem to alternative rings: every finite alternative division ring is a field.
H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic | Symbolic may refer to:
Symbol, something that represents an idea, a process, or a physical entity
Mathematics, logic, and computing
Symbolic computation, a scientific area concerned with computing with mathematical formulas
Symbolic dynamics, a method for modeling dynamical systems by a discrete space consisting o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutation%20matrix | In mathematics, especially in linear algebra and matrix theory, the commutation matrix is used for transforming the vectorized form of a matrix into the vectorized form of its transpose. Specifically, the commutation matrix K(m,n) is the nm × mn matrix which, for any m × n matrix A, transforms vec(A) into vec(AT):
K(m,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplication%20and%20elimination%20matrices | In mathematics, especially in linear algebra and matrix theory, the duplication matrix and the elimination matrix are linear transformations used for transforming half-vectorizations of matrices into vectorizations or (respectively) vice versa.
Duplication matrix
The duplication matrix is the unique matrix which, fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Goodall%20Environmental%20Middle%20School | Jane Goodall Environmental Middle School (JGEMS) is a public charter school serving grades six through eight that focuses on environmental science and community service. It is housed in the same building as the Oregon School for the Deaf in Salem, Oregon, and is named after English primatologist Jane Goodall. It is pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectorization%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, especially in linear algebra and matrix theory, the vectorization of a matrix is a linear transformation which converts the matrix into a vector. Specifically, the vectorization of a matrix A, denoted vec(A), is the column vector obtained by stacking the columns of the matrix A on top of one another:
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlenk%20line | The Schlenk line (also vacuum gas manifold) is a commonly used chemistry apparatus developed by Wilhelm Schlenk. It consists of a dual manifold with several ports. One manifold is connected to a source of purified inert gas, while the other is connected to a vacuum pump. The inert-gas line is vented through an oil bubb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milstein%20method | In mathematics, the Milstein method is a technique for the approximate numerical solution of a stochastic differential equation. It is named after Grigori N. Milstein who first published it in 1974.
Description
Consider the autonomous Itō stochastic differential equation:
with initial condition , where stands for th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runge%E2%80%93Kutta%20method%20%28SDE%29 | In mathematics of stochastic systems, the Runge–Kutta method is a technique for the approximate numerical solution of a stochastic differential equation. It is a generalisation of the Runge–Kutta method for ordinary differential equations to stochastic differential equations (SDEs). Importantly, the method does not in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shearing%20%28physics%29 | In continuum mechanics, shearing refers to the occurrence of a shear strain, which is a deformation of a material substance in which parallel internal surfaces slide past one another. It is induced by a shear stress in the material. Shear strain is distinguished from volumetric strain. The change in a material's volu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Hartmann | Johannes Hartmann (Amberg, 14 January 1568 – Kassel, 7 December 1631) was a German chemist.
In 1609, he became the first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Marburg. His teaching dealt mainly with pharmaceuticals. He was the father-in-law of Heinrich Petraeus.
References
1568 births
Date of birth unknown
163... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Losick | Richard Marc Losick ( ; born 1943) is an American molecular biologist. He is the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology at Harvard University, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. He is especially noted for his investigations of endospore formation in Gram positive organisms such as Bacillus subtilis.
Educatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Halpern | Paul Halpern (; born 1961) is an American author and Professor of Physics at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
Life
Halpern received a Ph.D in theoretical physics, an M.A. in physics and a B.A. in physics and mathematics. He was also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, and an Ath... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rietdijk%E2%80%93Putnam%20argument | In philosophy, the Rietdijk–Putnam argument, named after and Hilary Putnam, uses 20th-century findings in physicsspecifically in special relativityto support the philosophical position known as four-dimensionalism.
If special relativity is true, then each observer will have their own plane of simultaneity, which cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liviu%20Constantinescu | Liviu Constantinescu (26 November 1914 – 29 November 1997) was a Romanian geophysicist, professor of geophysics, member of the Romanian Academy. He was the cofounder, together with Sabba S. Ștefănescu, of the Romanian school of geophysics.
Biography
Born into an old family of Christian Orthodox clerics from Transylva... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolutely%20integrable%20function | In mathematics, an absolutely integrable function is a function whose absolute value is integrable, meaning that the integral of the absolute value over the whole domain is finite.
For a real-valued function, since
where
both and must be finite. In Lebesgue integration, this is exactly the requirement for any meas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20MacOwan | Peter MacOwan (14 November 1830 in Hull, England – 30 November 1909 in Uitenhage, Cape Province) was a British colonial botanist and teacher in South Africa.
Early life and education
He was the son of Peter McOwan, a Wesleyan minister from Scotland. After finishing school, he taught at Bath, Colchester, and Leeds, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspherical%20space | In topology, a branch of mathematics, an aspherical space is a topological space with all homotopy groups equal to 0 when .
If one works with CW complexes, one can reformulate this condition: an aspherical CW complex is a CW complex whose universal cover is contractible. Indeed, contractibility of a universal cover i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20calculus%20over%20commutative%20algebras | In mathematics the differential calculus over commutative algebras is a part of commutative algebra based on the observation that most concepts known from classical differential calculus can be formulated in purely algebraic terms. Instances of this are:
The whole topological information of a smooth manifold is encod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20Hamiltonian | In atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum chemistry, the molecular Hamiltonian is the Hamiltonian operator representing the energy of the electrons and nuclei in a molecule. This operator and the associated Schrödinger equation play a central role in computational chemistry and physics for computing prope... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorization%20system | In mathematics, it can be shown that every function can be written as the composite of a surjective function followed by an injective function. Factorization systems are a generalization of this situation in category theory.
Definition
A factorization system (E, M) for a category C consists of two classes of morphism... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20dihedral%20group | In mathematics, the generalized dihedral groups are a family of groups with algebraic structures similar to that of the dihedral groups. They include the finite dihedral groups, the infinite dihedral group, and the orthogonal group O(2). Dihedral groups play an important role in group theory, geometry, and chemistry.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen%20Culler | Glen Jacob Culler (July 7, 1927 – May 3, 2003) was an American professor of electrical engineering and an important early innovator in the development of the Internet. Culler joined the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) mathematics faculty in 1959 and helped put the campus in the forefront of what would be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20M.%20Neumann | Peter Michael Neumann OBE (28 December 1940 – 18 December 2020) was a British mathematician. His fields of interest included the history of mathematics and Galois theory.
Biography
Born in December 1940, Neumann was a son of the German-born mathematicians Bernhard Neumann and Hanna Neumann. He gained a BA degree from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger%20category | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a dagger category (also called involutive category or category with involution) is a category equipped with a certain structure called dagger or involution. The name dagger category was coined by Peter Selinger.
Formal definition
A dagger category is a category equipped... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Spector | Alfred Zalmon Spector is an American computer scientist and research manager. He is a visiting scholar in the MIT EECS Department and was previously CTO of Two Sigma Investments. Before that, he was Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives at Google.
Education
Spector received his Bachelor of Arts degree in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addison-Wesley%20Secondary%20Math%3A%20An%20Integrated%20Approach%3A%20Focus%20on%20Algebra | Focus on Algebra was the widely cited 812-page-long algebra textbook which contained significant content outside the traditional field of mathematics. The real-life context, intended to make mathematics more relevant, included chili recipes, ancient myths, and photographs of famous people.
Although it was a widely use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenic | In genetics, two organisms that differ in only one locus and a linked segment of chromosome are defined as congenic. Similarly, organisms that are coisogenic differ in one locus only and not in the surrounding chromosome. Unlike congenic organisms, coisogenic organisms cannot be bred and only occur through spontaneous ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20common%20physics%20notations | This is a list of common physical constants and variables, and their notations. Note that bold text indicates that the quantity is a vector.
Latin characters
Greek characters
Other characters
See also
List of letters used in mathematics and science
Glossary of mathematical symbols
List of mathematical uses of La... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Coey | John Michael David Coey (born 24 February 1945), known as Michael Coey, is a Belfast-born experimental physicist working in the fields of magnetism and spintronics.
He got a BA in Physics at Jesus College, Cambridge (1966), and a PhD from University of Manitoba (1971) for
a thesis on "Mössbauer Effect of 57Fe in Magnet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-terminal%20sensing | In electrical engineering, four-terminal sensing (4T sensing), 4-wire sensing, or 4-point probes method is an electrical impedance measuring technique that uses separate pairs of current-carrying and voltage-sensing electrodes to make more accurate measurements than the simpler and more usual two-terminal (2T) sensing.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger%20compact%20category | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, dagger compact categories (or dagger compact closed categories) first appeared in 1989 in the work of Sergio Doplicher and John E. Roberts on the reconstruction of compact topological groups from their category of finite-dimensional continuous unitary representations (that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaking%20%28microbiology%29 | In microbiology, streaking is a technique used to isolate a pure strain from a single species of microorganism, often bacteria. Samples can then be taken from the resulting colonies and a microbiological culture can be grown on a new plate so that the organism can be identified, studied, or tested.
The modern streak p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%20distance%20graph | In mathematics, particularly geometric graph theory, a unit distance graph is a graph formed from a collection of points in the Euclidean plane by connecting two points whenever the distance between them is exactly one. To distinguish these graphs from a broader definition that allows some non-adjacent pairs of vertice... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nel%20Noddings | Nel Noddings (; January 19, 1929 – August 25, 2022) was an American feminist, educator, and philosopher best known for her work in philosophy of education, educational theory, and ethics of care.
Biography
Noddings received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physical science from Montclair State University in New ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matita | Matita
is an experimental proof assistant under development at the Computer Science Department of the University of Bologna. It is a tool aiding the development of formal proofs by man-machine collaboration, providing a programming environment where formal specifications, executable algorithms and automatically verifia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Newman | Tom or Thomas Newman may refer to:
Tom Newman (billiards player) (1894–1943), British player of English billiards and snooker
Tom Newman (musician) (Thomas Dennis Newman, born 1943), musician and producer
Tom Newman (scientist) (fl. 1985), researcher in nanotechnology
Thomas Newman (Thomas Montgomery Newman, born ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak%20%28software%29 | The Tokamak Game Physics SDK is an open-source physics engine.
At its beginnings, Tokamak was free for non commercial uses only. Since May 2007, it has become open sourced under a BSD License. Now it can be used under BSD or Zlib license, in order to make the source code exchange with other physics engine possible.
F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleus%20barbatus | Coleus barbatus, also known by the synonyms Plectranthus barbatus and incorrectly Coleus forskalaei (and other spellings of this epithet), is a tropical perennial plant related to the typical coleus species. It produces forskolin, an extract useful for pharmaceutical preparations and research in cell biology.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krogh%27s%20principle | Krogh's principle states that "for such a large number of problems there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied." This concept is central to those disciplines of biology that rely on the comparative method, such as neuroethology, comparative physiology, and mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Tye | Sze-Hoi Henry Tye (; born 1947 in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese-American cosmologist and theoretical physicist most notable for proposing that relative brane motion could cause cosmic inflation as well as his work on superstring theory, brane cosmology and elementary particle physics. He had his primary and secondary s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20P.%20Unny | Ekanath Padmanabhan Unny is an Indian political cartoonist.
He hails from the Ekanath Family of Elappully, Palakkad. He studied physics at the University in the Indian state of Kerala.
His first cartoon was published in Shankar's Weekly in 1973. He became a professional cartoonist in 1977 with The Hindu. E. P. Unny... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact%20number | In chemistry, a contact number (CN) is a simple solvent exposure measure that measures residue burial in proteins. The definition of CN varies between authors, but is generally defined as the number of either C or C atoms within a sphere around the C or C atom of the residue. The radius of the sphere is typically chos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Physics%2C%20Bhubaneswar | Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar () is an autonomous research institution of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India. The institute was founded by Professor Bidhu Bhusan Das, who was Director of Public Instruction, Odisha, at that time. Das set up the institute in 1972, supported by the Government o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20presentation%20of%20a%20group | In mathematics, an absolute presentation is one method of defining a group.
Recall that to define a group by means of a presentation, one specifies a set of generators so that every element of the group can be written as a product of some of these generators, and a set of relations among those generators. In symbol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCFS | The following concepts can be abbreviated DCFS
Department of Children and Family Services, the name of a governmental agency in some states in the United States
Department of Children and Family Services (Los Angeles County)
Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, a computer science conference
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-access%20stored-program%20machine | In theoretical computer science the random-access stored-program (RASP) machine model is an abstract machine used for the purposes of algorithm development and algorithm complexity theory.
The RASP is a random-access machine (RAM) model that, unlike the RAM, has its program in its "registers" together with its input. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurious | Spurious may refer to:
Spurious relationship in statistics
Spurious emission or spurious tone in radio engineering
Spurious key in cryptography
Spurious interrupt in computing
Spurious wakeup in computing
Spurious, a 2011 novel by Lars Iyer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity%20amplitude | A sinusoidal waveform is said to have a unity amplitude when the amplitude of the wave is equal to 1.
where . This terminology is most commonly used in digital signal processing and is usually associated with the Fourier series and Fourier Transform sinusoids that involve a duty cycle, , and a defined fundamental peri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borel%20conjecture | In mathematics, specifically geometric topology, the Borel conjecture (named for Armand Borel) asserts that an aspherical closed manifold is determined by its fundamental group, up to homeomorphism. It is a rigidity conjecture, asserting that a weak, algebraic notion of equivalence (namely, homotopy equivalence) shoul... |
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