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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted%20K-theory | In mathematics, twisted K-theory (also called K-theory with local coefficients) is a variation on K-theory, a mathematical theory from the 1950s that spans algebraic topology, abstract algebra and operator theory.
More specifically, twisted K-theory with twist H is a particular variant of K-theory, in which the twist ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockwork%20universe | In the history of science, the clockwork universe compares the universe to a mechanical clock. It continues ticking along, as a perfect machine, with its gears governed by the laws of physics, making every aspect of the machine predictable.
History
This idea was very popular among deists during the Enlightenment, wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausumi%20Dikpati | Mausumi Dikpati is a scientist at the High Altitude Observatory operated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Career
In March 2006, she predicted the strength and timing of the next solar cycle based on simulations of the astrophysics of the solar interior. During 2006-2007 Mausumi Dikpati issued three pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-to-Minimal%20Supersymmetric%20Standard%20Model | In particle physics, NMSSM is an acronym for Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model.
It is a supersymmetric extension to the Standard Model that adds an additional singlet chiral superfield to the MSSM and can be used to dynamically generate the term, solving the -problem. Articles about the NMSSM are availab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperflex | Hyperflex may refer to:
Flexion, in anatomy
Inflection point of a curve where the tangent meets to order at least 4, in mathematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethoxybenzene | In organic chemistry, dimethoxybenzene is an organic compound which is derived from benzene () by substituting two methoxy groups (). Dimethoxybenzene comes in three structural isomers:
1,2-Dimethoxybenzene (Veratrole)
1,3-Dimethoxybenzene
1,4-Dimethoxybenzene
All isomers share the molecular weight 138.17 g/mol and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel%20Pavel | Pavel Pavel (born March 11, 1957 in Strakonice) is a Czech engineer and experimental archaeologist best known for investigating how ancient civilizations transported heavy weights.
Pavel Pavel studied electrical engineering at the university in Plzeň and later worked as a design engineer in Agrostav Strakonice. Solvin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrite%20%28disambiguation%29 | Dendrite derives from the Greek word "dendron" meaning ( "tree-like"), and may refer to:
Biology
Dendrite, a branched projection of a neuron
Dendrite (non-neuronal), branching projections of certain skin cells and immune cells
Physical
Dendrite (metal), a characteristic tree-like structure of crystals growing as molt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown | Meltdown may refer to:
Science and technology
Nuclear meltdown, a severe nuclear reactor accident
Meltdown (security vulnerability), affecting computer processors
Mutational meltdown, in population genetics
Arts and entertainment
Music
Meltdown (festival) in London
Meltdown Records, a Slovakian record label
A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bistable | Bistable may refer to:
Bistability in physics; something that can rest in two states
Bistable circuit, also known as a flip-flop or latch
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain%20growth | In materials science, grain growth is the increase in size of grains (crystallites) in a material at high temperature. This occurs when recovery and recrystallisation are complete and further reduction in the internal energy can only be achieved by reducing the total area of grain boundary. The term is commonly used in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin%27s%20rules | Baldwin's rules in organic chemistry are a series of guidelines outlining the relative favorabilities of ring closure reactions in alicyclic compounds. They were first proposed by Jack Baldwin in 1976.
Baldwin's rules discuss the relative rates of ring closures of these various types. These terms are not meant to desc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular%20measure | In mathematics, two positive (or signed or complex) measures and defined on a measurable space are called singular if there exist two disjoint measurable sets whose union is such that is zero on all measurable subsets of while is zero on all measurable subsets of This is denoted by
A refined form of Lebesgue... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Eves | Howard Whitley Eves (10 January 1911, New Jersey – 6 June 2004) was an American mathematician, known for his work in geometry and the history of mathematics.
Eves received his B.S. from the University of Virginia, an M.A. from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Oregon State University in 1948, the las... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis%20set%20superposition%20error | In quantum chemistry, calculations using finite basis sets are susceptible to basis set superposition error (BSSE). As the atoms of interacting molecules (or of different parts of the same molecule - intramolecular BSSE) approach one another, their basis functions overlap. Each monomer "borrows" functions from other ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20symbols | State symbols may refer to:
National symbols
Australian state symbols
Emblems of Indian states
Indian state symbols
United States state symbols
in chemistry, the symbols for different states of matter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Schweickart | David Schweickart (born 1942) is an American mathematician and philosopher. He holds a BS in Mathematics from the University of Dayton, a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Virginia, and a PhD in Philosophy from Ohio State University. He currently is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago.
He has ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbourhood%20%28disambiguation%29 | A neighbourhood (also spelled neighborhood) is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural area.
Neighbo(u)rhood(s) may also refer to:
Mathematics
Neighbourhood (mathematics), a concept in topology
Neighbourhood (graph theory), a grouping in graph theory
the Moore neighborhood and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakhshali%20manuscript | The Bakhshali manuscript is an ancient Indian mathematical text written on birch bark that was found in 1881 in the village of Bakhshali, Mardan (near Peshawar in present-day Pakistan, historical Gandhara). It is perhaps "the oldest extant manuscript in Indian mathematics". For some portions a carbon-date was proposed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Traube | Wilhelm Traube (10 January 1866 – 28 September 1942) was a German chemist.
Biography
Traube was born at Ratibor (Racibórz) in Prussian Silesia, a son of the famous private scholar Moritz Traube.
After studying law for a short time, he studied chemistry in Heidelberg, Breslau (today Wrocław), Munich and Berlin. Amon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20Shemilt | Leslie Webster Shemilt, (25 December 1919 - 20 December 2011 ) was a Canadian chemical engineer and professor.
Born in Souris, Manitoba, he received a B.A.Sc. degree in 1941 from the University of Toronto and a M.Sc. degree in 1946 from the University of Manitoba. He received a Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Matthias%20Hase | Johann Matthias (Matyhias) Hase (Haas, Haase) (anglicised as Johannes Hasius) (14 January 1684 – 24 September 1742) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer.
Biography
Hase taught at Leipzig and his native Augsburg. In 1720, he became professor of mathematics at the University of Wittenberg.
Hase mad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry%20World | Chemistry World is a monthly chemistry news magazine published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The magazine addresses current events in the world of chemistry including research, international business news and government policy as it affects the chemical science community, plus the best product applications. It fe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Genetics%20Foundation | The European Genetics Foundation (EGF) is a non-profit organization, dedicated to the training of young geneticists active in medicine, to continuing education in genetics/genomics and to the promotion of public understanding of genetics. Its main office is located in Bologna, Italy.
Background
In 1988 Prof. Giovanni ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verifiable%20secret%20sharing | In cryptography, a secret sharing scheme is verifiable if auxiliary information is included that allows players to verify their shares as consistent. More formally, verifiable secret sharing ensures that even if the dealer is malicious there is a well-defined secret that the players can later reconstruct. (In standard ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadim%20Zudilin | Wadim Zudilin (Вадим Валентинович Зудилин) is a Russian mathematician and number theorist who is active in studying hypergeometric functions and zeta constants. He studied under Yuri V. Nesterenko and worked at Moscow State University, the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela%20J.%20Bjorkman | Pamela Jane Bjorkman NAS, AAAS (also spelled Pamela J. Björkman born 1956 in Portland, Oregon) is an American biochemist. She is the David Baltimore Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Her research centers on the study of the three-dimensional structures... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Math%20and%20Science%20Coaches%20Association | The Texas Math and Science Coaches Association or TMSCA is an organization for coaches of academic University Interscholastic League teams in Texas middle schools and high schools, specifically those that compete in mathematics and science-related tests.
Events
There are four events in the TMSCA at both the middle a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born%20rule | The Born rule (also called Born's rule) is a postulate of quantum mechanics which gives the probability that a measurement of a quantum system will yield a given result. In its simplest form, it states that the probability density of finding a system in a given state, when measured, is proportional to the square of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade%20Union%20International%20of%20Chemical%2C%20Energy%2C%20Metal%2C%20Oil%20and%20Allied%20Industries | The Trade Union International of Chemical, Energy, Metal, Oil and Allied Workers (CHEMISTRY-ENERGY) is a sectoral body affiliated to the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU). The international federations of national trade unions are organized in specific industry sectors or occupational groups.
History
The federa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snell%E2%80%93Hitchcock | Amos Jerome Snell Hall and Charles Hitchcock Hall, more commonly known as Snell–Hitchcock (colloquially Snitchcock), make up a residence hall at the University of Chicago. The dorm is on the northwest corner of the University's main quadrangles at the corner of 57th St. and Ellis Avenue. It is connected via emergency e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3-finite%20measure | In mathematics, a positive (or signed) measure μ defined on a σ-algebra Σ of subsets of a set X is called a finite measure if μ(X) is a finite real number (rather than ∞). A set A in Σ is of finite measure if μ(A) < ∞. The measure μ is called σ-finite if X is a countable union of measurable sets each with finite measur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite%20measure | In measure theory, a branch of mathematics, a finite measure or totally finite measure is a special measure that always takes on finite values. Among finite measures are probability measures. The finite measures are often easier to handle than more general measures and show a variety of different properties depending o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebesgue%27s%20decomposition%20theorem | In mathematics, more precisely in measure theory, Lebesgue's decomposition theorem states that for every two σ-finite signed measures and on a measurable space there exist two σ-finite signed measures and such that:
(that is, is absolutely continuous with respect to )
(that is, and are singular).
These... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milliken%27s%20tree%20theorem | In mathematics, Milliken's tree theorem in combinatorics is a partition theorem generalizing Ramsey's theorem to infinite trees, objects with more structure than sets.
Let T be a finitely splitting rooted tree of height ω, n a positive integer, and the collection of all strongly embedded subtrees of T of height n. In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromodichloromethane | Bromodichloromethane is a trihalomethane with formula .
Bromodichloromethane has formerly been used as a flame retardant, and a solvent for fats and waxes and because of its high density for mineral separation. Now it is only used as a reagent or intermediate in organic chemistry.
Bromodichloromethane can also occur ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp%20von%20Jolly | Johann Philipp Gustav von Jolly (26 September 1809 – 24 December 1884) was a German physicist and mathematician.
Born in Mannheim as the son of merchant Louis Jolly and Marie Eleonore Jolly, he studied science in Heidelberg, Vienna and Berlin. After his studies, he was appointed professor of mathematics in Heidelberg ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy%20%28fluid%20dynamics%29 | In fluid dynamics, an eddy is the swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when the fluid is in a turbulent flow regime. The moving fluid creates a space devoid of downstream-flowing fluid on the downstream side of the object. Fluid behind the obstacle flows into the void creating a swirl of fluid on each e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20basis%20of%20love | The theory of a biological basis of love has been explored by such biological sciences as evolutionary psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology and neuroscience. Specific chemical substances such as oxytocin are studied in the context of their roles in producing human experiences, emotions and behaviors that are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-list | D-list could refer to
D-list, a status on the Ulmer scale of fame and "bankability", meaning very minor celebrity
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, a reality television show
Difference list, in computer science, a data structure for representing lists with efficient append operations
See also
Delisting (dis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidya%20Academy%20of%20Science%20and%20Technology%2C%20Thrissur | Vidya Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) is a privately financed engineering college in Thrissur District in Kerala. The college offers a degree in Bachelor of Technology and courses in six branches of engineering - Production, Civil, Computer Science, Electrical and Electronics, Electronics and Communication, Me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Mosses | Peter David Mosses (born 1948) is a British computer scientist.
Peter Mosses studied mathematics as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Oxford, and went on to undertake a DPhil supervised by Christopher Strachey in the Programming Research Group while at Wolfson College, Oxford in the early 1970s. He was the last stu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Meurig%20Thomas | Sir John Meurig Thomas (15 December 193213 November 2020), also known as JMT, was a Welsh scientist, educator, university administrator, and historian of science primarily known for his work on heterogeneous catalysis, solid-state chemistry, and surface and materials science.
He was one of the founders of solid-state... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Waterloo%20Faculty%20of%20Mathematics | The Faculty of Mathematics is one of six faculties of the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, offering more than 500 courses in mathematics, statistics and computer science. The faculty also houses the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, formerly the faculty's computer science department. There are m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry%20Center | The Geometry Center was a mathematics research and education center at the University of Minnesota. It was established by the National Science Foundation in the late 1980s and closed in 1998. The focus of the center's work was the use of computer graphics and visualization for research and education in pure mathematics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost%20diagram | A Frost diagram or Frost–Ebsworth diagram is a type of graph used by inorganic chemists in electrochemistry to illustrate the relative stability of a number of different oxidation states of a particular substance. The graph illustrates the free energy vs oxidation state of a chemical species. This effect is dependent o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Hommel | Johann Hommel (also Johannes Homelius, Hummelius, Homilius, Hummel; 2 February 1518, Memmingen – 4 July 1562, Leipzig) was a German astronomer and mathematician.
Work
Hommel was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Leipzig in 1551.
In 1552 or 1553, Richard Cantzlar introduced transversal dot lines ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRT | RRT or Rrt may refer to:
Radio Reconnaissance Platoon
Railroad Tycoon (series)
Rainbow Round Table
Rapidly exploring random tree
Reference Rendering Transform (Academy Color Encoding System)
Registered Respiratory Therapist
Renal replacement therapy
Randomized response technique
Rational root theorem in mathematics
Re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Harel | David Harel (; born 12 April 1950) is a computer scientist, currently serving as President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He has been on the faculty of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel since 1980, and holds the William Sussman Professorial Chair of Mathematics. Born in London, England, he ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian%20Bigelow | Julian Bigelow (March 19, 1913 – February 17, 2003) was a pioneering American computer engineer.
Life
Bigelow was born in 1913 in Nutley, New Jersey. He obtained a master's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying electrical engineering and mathematics. During World War II, he assisted Norbert Wie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%20Bose | Emil Hermann Bose (October 20, 1874 in Bremen, Germany – May 25, 1911 in La Plata, Argentina), was a German physicist. He was the first director of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of La Plata, Argentina. He studied under Walther Nernst at the University of Göttingen, Germany and was recruited... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Rueff | Jacques Léon Rueff (23 August 1896 – 23 April 1978) was a French economist and adviser to the French government.
Life
An influential French conservative and free market thinker, Rueff was born the son of a well known Parisian physician and studied economics and mathematics at the École Polytechnique. An important eco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification%20studies%20of%20UFOs | Identifying unidentified flying objects (UFOs) is a difficult task due to the normally poor quality of the evidence provided by those who report sighting the unknown object. Observations and subsequent reporting are often made by those untrained in astronomy, atmospheric phenomena, aeronautics, physics, and perception.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C3-dipole | In organic chemistry, a 1,3-dipolar compound or 1,3-dipole is a dipolar compound with delocalized electrons and a separation of charge over three atoms. They are reactants in 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions.
The dipole has at least one resonance structure with positive and negative charges having a 1,3 relationship which c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hann%20function | The Hann function is named after the Austrian meteorologist Julius von Hann. It is a window function used to perform Hann smoothing. The function, with length and amplitude is given by:
For digital signal processing, the function is sampled symmetrically (with spacing and amplitude ):
which is a sequence of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict%20Gross | Benedict Hyman Gross is an American mathematician who is a professor at the University of California San Diego, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at Harvard University, and former Dean of Harvard College.
He is known for his work in number theory, particularly the Gross–Zagier theorem on L-f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej%20Tarkowski | Andrzej Krzysztof Tarkowski (; 4 May 1933 – 23 September 2016) was a Polish embryologist and a professor at Warsaw University. He is best known for his pioneering researches on embryos and blastomeres, which have created theoretical and practical basis for achievements of biology and medicine of the twentieth century -... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodgem | Dodgem is a simple abstract strategy game invented by Colin Vout in 1972 while he was a mathematics student at the University of Cambridge as described in the book Winning Ways. It is played on an n×n board with n-1 cars for each player—two cars each on a 3×3 board is enough for an interesting game, but larger sizes a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy%20D%C4%85browski | Jerzy Dąbrowski (September 8, 1899 – September 17, 1967) was a Polish aeronautical engineer. He was the lead designer of the famed PZL.37 Łoś medium bomber.
Dąbrowski was born in Nieborów, west of Warsaw to a railway clerk family. He studied architecture and then transferred to mechanical engineering at the Warsaw Tec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytochrome%20b | Cytochrome b within both molecular and cell biology, is a protein found in the mitochondria of eukaryotic cells. It functions as part of the electron transport chain and is the main subunit of transmembrane cytochrome bc1 and b6f complexes.
Function
In the mitochondrion of eukaryotes and in aerobic prokaryotes, cyto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20hole | A blue hole is a large marine cavern or sinkhole, which is open to the surface and has developed in a bank or island composed of a carbonate bedrock (limestone or coral reef). Blue holes typically contain tidally influenced water of fresh, marine, or mixed chemistry. They extend below sea level for most of their depth ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Lagarias | Jeffrey Clark Lagarias (born November 16, 1949 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) is a mathematician and professor at the University of Michigan.
Education
While in high school in 1966, Lagarias studied astronomy at the Summer Science Program.
He completed an S.B. and S.M. in Mathematics at the Massachusett... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethe%20ansatz | In physics, the Bethe ansatz is an ansatz for finding the exact wavefunctions of certain quantum many-body models, most commonly for one-dimensional lattice models. It was first used by Hans Bethe in 1931 to find the exact eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the one-dimensional antiferromagnetic isotropic (XXX) Heisenberg ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jmol | Jmol is computer software for molecular modelling chemical structures in 3-dimensions. Jmol returns a 3D representation of a molecule that may be used as a teaching tool, or for research e.g., in chemistry and biochemistry.
It is written in the programming language Java, so it can run on the operating systems Windows, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20minimal%20residual%20method | In mathematics, the generalized minimal residual method (GMRES) is an iterative method for the numerical solution of an indefinite nonsymmetric system of linear equations. The method approximates the solution by the vector in a Krylov subspace with minimal residual. The Arnoldi iteration is used to find this vector.
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exertion | Exertion is the physical or perceived use of energy. Exertion traditionally connotes a strenuous or costly effort, resulting in generation of force, initiation of motion, or in the performance of work. It often relates to muscular activity and can be quantified, empirically and by measurable metabolic response.
Physic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocke | Cocke is a surname (pronounced cock, cox or coke) and may refer to:
Charles Lewis Cocke (1940- ) Professor of Physics at Kansas State University, winner of 2006 Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
Erle Cocke Jr. (1921-2000), International banking consultant and lobbyist
James Cocke, mayor of Williamsbu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett%20Chappelle | Emmett W. Chappelle (October 24, 1925 – October 14, 2019) was an American scientist who made valuable contributions in the fields of medicine, philanthropy, food science, and astrochemistry. His achievements led to his induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his work on bioluminescence, in 2007. Being ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennant%20Roberts | John Pennant Roberts (15 December 1940 – 22 June 2010) was a British director and producer known for his work in British television drama.
Early life
Roberts was born at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset to Welsh parents. He went to school in Bristol and read physics at the University of Bristol.
Career
Beginning his t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Larmonth%20Meakins | Jonathan Larmonth Meakins, (born January 8, 1941) is a Canadian surgeon, academic, and expert in immunobiology and surgical infections.
Life
Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was the son of Jonathan Fayette Meakins, in turn the son of Jonathan Campbell Meakins.
He received a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill Universi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margo%20Anderson%20%28writer%29 | Margo Anderson (born August 13, 1967), formerly Mark Anderson, is an American journalist and book author.
Education
Anderson has a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in astrophysics.
Career
Anderson has written articles on science, history, and technology for a variety of national and international pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%20Jaenisch | Rudolf Jaenisch (born on April 22, 1942) is a Professor of Biology at MIT and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He is a pioneer of transgenic science, in which an animal’s genetic makeup is altered. Jaenisch has focused on creating genetically modified mice to study cancer, epigeneti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Ohm | Martin Ohm (May 6, 1792 in Erlangen – April 1, 1872 in Berlin) was a German mathematician and a younger brother of physicist Georg Ohm.
Biography
He earned his doctorate in 1811 at Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg where his advisor was Karl Christian von Langsdorf. In 1817, he was appointed professor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optical%20trap | In condensed matter physics, a magneto-optical trap (MOT) is an apparatus which uses laser cooling and a spatially-varying magnetic field to create a trap which can produce samples of cold, neutral atoms. Temperatures achieved in a MOT can be as low as several microkelvin, depending on the atomic species, which is two ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip%20Rogaway | Phillip Rogaway is an American cryptographer who is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. He graduated from Beverly Hills High School, and later earned a BA in computer science from UC Berkeley and completed his PhD in cryptography at MIT, in the Theory of Computation group. He has t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%20of%20Economics | The Bachelor of Economics (BEc or BEcon),
or the Bachelor of Applied Economics, is a bachelor's degree awarded by many universities and colleges for completion of an undergraduate program in economics, econometrics, or applied economics;
these are often paired with business, finance, or mathematics.
Specialized eco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featherstone%27s%20algorithm | Featherstone's algorithm is a technique used for computing the effects of forces applied to a structure of joints and links (an "open kinematic chain") such as a skeleton used in ragdoll physics.
The Featherstone's algorithm uses a reduced coordinate representation. This is in contrast to the more popular Lagrange mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20H.%20Goble | George H. Goble is a staff member at the Purdue University Engineering Computer Network and a 1996 Ig Nobel Prize winner.
Goble is commonly known as "ghg" since he has used that as a login id, and signature in digital communications, since the 1970s. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20adiabatic%20concepts | Adiabatic (from Gr. ἀ negative + διάβασις passage; transference) refers to any process that occurs without heat transfer. This concept is used in many areas of physics and engineering. Notable examples are listed below.
Automobiles
Engine braking, a feature of some diesel engines, uses adiabatic expansion to diminis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanish | Vanish may refer to:
Vanish (toilet cleaner), a toilet bowl cleaner by S.C. Johnson
Vanish (stain remover), a brand of cloth cleaning product by Reckitt
"Vanish" an episode of the TV series Criss Angel Mindfreak
Vanishing, a type of magical effect
Vanish (mathematics), said of a mathematical function that gives t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mado | Mado may refer to:
Biology
Mado (fish) (in New Zealand), Atypichthys latus, a species of perciform fish
Geography
Mado, Burkina Faso, a village in south-western Burkina Faso
Mado Gashi (also Modogashe), a small remote town in the Eastern Province of Kenya
Mado (마도 馬島), an island in Hadong County, South Gyeongsang Pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambutan%20%28cryptography%29 | Rambutan is a family of encryption technologies designed by the Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG), the technical division of the United Kingdom government's secret communications agency, GCHQ.
It includes a range of encryption products designed by CESG for use in handling confidential (not secret) comm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a surface is a mathematical model of the common concept of a surface. It is a generalization of a plane, but, unlike a plane, it may be curved; this is analogous to a curve generalizing a straight line.
There are several more precise definitions, depending on the context and the mathematical tools tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Day%20%28chemist%29 | Peter Day (20 August 1938 – 19 May 2020) was a British inorganic chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University and later at University College London (UCL).
Early life and education
Day was born 20 August 1938 in Wrotham, Kent. He was educated at Maidstone Grammar School and Wadham College, Oxford where he w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonatology%20%28journal%29 | Neonatology (formerly Biology of the Neonate) is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering the fields of fetal and neonatal research and is published by Karger Publishers. It was established in 1959 as Biologia Neonatorum and renamed to Biology of the Neonate in 1970, obtaining its current name in 2006. Developmental Ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Mary%27s%20University%20%28Halifax%29 | Saint Mary's University (SMU) is a formerly Catholic, public university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The school is best known for having nationally leading programs in business and chemistry. The campus is situated in Halifax's South End and covers approximately .
History
Founding
Saint Mary's is the sec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus%20nidulans | Aspergillus nidulans (also called Emericella nidulans when referring to its sexual form, or teleomorph) is one of many species of filamentous fungi in the phylum Ascomycota. It has been an important research organism for studying eukaryotic cell biology
for over 50 years,
being used to study a wide range of subjects in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITest | The iTest (formerly known as the American High School Internet Mathematics Competition (AHSIMC)), was founded in 2004 by Bradley Metrock and takes place each September, offering students from across the country to compete against the best and brightest high school students in a highly competitive environment.
Guidelin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abner%20Shimony | Abner Eliezer Shimony (; March 10, 1928 – August 8, 2015) was an American physicist and philosopher. He specialized in quantum theory and philosophy of science. As a physicist, he concentrated on the interaction between relativity theory and quantum mechanics. He authored many works and research on complementarity in q... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%20Ploberger | Werner Ploberger (born 5 August 1956 in Vienna) is an Austrian economist. He graduated in mathematics from the Vienna University of Technology. Beginning in 1997, he was a professor of economics at the University of Rochester. Effective July 1, 2006, he is professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis. H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20robotics | In Japan, popular robots include humanoid entertainment robots, androids, animal robots, social robots, guard robots, and many more. Each type has a variety of characteristics.
Japan employs over a quarter of a million industrial robot workers. In the next 15 years, it's estimated that the number will jump to over one... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/171%20%28number%29 | 171 (one hundred [and] seventy-one) is the natural number following 170 and preceding 172.
In mathematics
171 is a triangular number and a Jacobsthal number.
There are 171 transitive relations on three labeled elements, and 171 combinatorially distinct ways of subdividing a cuboid by flat cuts into a mesh of tetrahed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epispiral | The epispiral is a plane curve with polar equation
.
There are n sections if n is odd and 2n if n is even.
It is the polar or circle inversion of the rose curve.
In astronomy the epispiral is related to the equations that explain planets' orbits.
See also
Logarithmic spiral
Rose (mathematics)
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/174%20%28number%29 | 174 (one hundred [and] seventy-four) is the natural number following 173 and preceding 175.
In mathematics
There are 174 7-crossing semi-meanders, ways of arranging a semi-infinite curve in the plane so that it crosses a straight line seven times. There are 174 invertible (0,1)-matrices. There are also 174 combinator... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ernst%20Weaver | John Ernst Weaver ( 5 May 1884 – 8 June 1966) was an American botanist, prairie ecologist, and university professor.
Biography
Weaver was born in Villisca, Iowa. He obtained a PhD in Biology and Botany at the University of Minnesota, 1916. He was "Instructor of Botany" at Washington State College from 1912 to 1913. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang%20Huahua | Huang Huahua (born October 1946 in Xingning, Guangdong) is a retired Chinese politician, and the Governor of Guangdong between 2003 and 2011. Of Hakka heritage, he was once the mayor of Meizhou.
Biography
Huang was born in Xingning County, Guangdong. Huang graduated in mathematics from Sun Yat-sen University.
From ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%E2%80%93protein%20interaction%20prediction | Protein–protein interaction prediction is a field combining bioinformatics and structural biology in an attempt to identify and catalog physical interactions between pairs or groups of proteins. Understanding protein–protein interactions is important for the investigation of intracellular signaling pathways, modelling ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop%20theorem | In mathematics, in the topology of 3-manifolds, the loop theorem is a generalization of Dehn's lemma. The loop theorem was first proven by Christos Papakyriakopoulos in 1956, along with Dehn's lemma and the Sphere theorem.
A simple and useful version of the loop theorem states that if for some 3-dimensional manifold ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate%20index | In mathematics, two real numbers are called conjugate indices (or Hölder conjugates) if
Formally, we also define as conjugate to and vice versa.
Conjugate indices are used in Hölder's inequality, as well as Young's inequality for products; the latter can be used to prove the former. If are conjugate indic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peekskill%20High%20School | Peekskill High School, established in 1929, is located at 1072 Elm Street in Peekskill, New York, United States. It educates most of the district's ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders. The school's current principal is Dr. Jenna Ferris. Peekskill students prepare for the New York State Regents Exams in science,... |
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