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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech%20lattice
In mathematics, the Leech lattice is an even unimodular lattice Λ24 in 24-dimensional Euclidean space, which is one of the best models for the kissing number problem. It was discovered by . It may also have been discovered (but not published) by Ernst Witt in 1940. Characterization The Leech lattice Λ24 is the unique...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20optics%20articles
Optics is the branch of physics which involves the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behavior of visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light. Because light is an electromagnetic wave, other forms ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20charge
In atomic physics, a partial charge (or net atomic charge) is a non-integer charge value when measured in elementary charge units. It is represented by the Greek lowercase delta (𝛿), namely 𝛿− or 𝛿+. Partial charges are created due to the asymmetric distribution of electrons in chemical bonds. For example, in a pol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20Golay%20code
In mathematics and electronics engineering, a binary Golay code is a type of linear error-correcting code used in digital communications. The binary Golay code, along with the ternary Golay code, has a particularly deep and interesting connection to the theory of finite sporadic groups in mathematics. These codes are n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemosynthesis
In biochemistry, chemosynthesis is the biological conversion of one or more carbon-containing molecules (usually carbon dioxide or methane) and nutrients into organic matter using the oxidation of inorganic compounds (e.g., hydrogen gas, hydrogen sulfide) or ferrous ions as a source of energy, rather than sunlight, as ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionistic%20type%20theory
Intuitionistic type theory (also known as constructive type theory, or Martin-Löf type theory) is a type theory and an alternative foundation of mathematics. Intuitionistic type theory was created by Per Martin-Löf, a Swedish mathematician and philosopher, who first published it in 1972. There are multiple versions of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein
Ein or EIN may refer to: Science and technology Ein function, in mathematics Endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia, a lesion of the uterine lining Equivalent input noise, of a microphone European Informatics Network, a 1970s computer network Fictional characters Ein, a character in the anime series Cowboy Bebop...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dot%20and%20the%20Line
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics is a 1965 animated short film directed by Chuck Jones and co-directed by Maurice Noble, based on the 1963 book of the same name written and illustrated by Norton Juster, who also provided the film's script. The film was narrated by Robert Morley and produced by Metro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson%20algebra
In mathematics, a Poisson algebra is an associative algebra together with a Lie bracket that also satisfies Leibniz's law; that is, the bracket is also a derivation. Poisson algebras appear naturally in Hamiltonian mechanics, and are also central in the study of quantum groups. Manifolds with a Poisson algebra structu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallie%20Baliunas
Sallie Louise Baliunas (born February 23, 1953) is a retired astrophysicist. She formerly worked at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian and was the Deputy Director of the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1991 to 2003. Early life and education Baliunas was born and grew up in New York City and its suburbs. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20extension
In mathematics, a group extension is a general means of describing a group in terms of a particular normal subgroup and quotient group. If and are two groups, then is an extension of by if there is a short exact sequence If is an extension of by , then is a group, is a normal subgroup of and the quotient gr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three%20prime%20untranslated%20region
In molecular genetics, the three prime untranslated region (3′-UTR) is the section of messenger RNA (mRNA) that immediately follows the translation termination codon. The 3′-UTR often contains regulatory regions that post-transcriptionally influence gene expression. During gene expression, an mRNA molecule is transcri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECIS%20element
In biology, the SECIS element (SECIS: selenocysteine insertion sequence) is an RNA element around 60 nucleotides in length that adopts a stem-loop structure. This structural motif (pattern of nucleotides) directs the cell to translate UGA codons as selenocysteines (UGA is normally a stop codon). SECIS elements are thus...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenoprotein
In molecular biology a selenoprotein is any protein that includes a selenocysteine (Sec, U, Se-Cys) amino acid residue. Among functionally characterized selenoproteins are five glutathione peroxidases (GPX) and three thioredoxin reductases, (TrxR/TXNRD) which both contain only one Sec. Selenoprotein P is the most commo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discontinuity
Discontinuity may refer to: Discontinuity (casting), an interruption in the normal physical structure or configuration of an article Discontinuity (geotechnical engineering), a plane or surface marking a change in physical or chemical properties in a soil or rock mass Discontinuity (mathematics), a property of a mathem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation
In particle physics, annihilation is the process that occurs when a subatomic particle collides with its respective antiparticle to produce other particles, such as an electron colliding with a positron to produce two photons. The total energy and momentum of the initial pair are conserved in the process and distribute...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20buffering
In computer science, multiple buffering is the use of more than one buffer to hold a block of data, so that a "reader" will see a complete (though perhaps old) version of the data, rather than a partially updated version of the data being created by a "writer". It is very commonly used for computer display images. It i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20quantum%20field%20theory
Algebraic quantum field theory (AQFT) is an application to local quantum physics of C*-algebra theory. Also referred to as the Haag–Kastler axiomatic framework for quantum field theory, because it was introduced by . The axioms are stated in terms of an algebra given for every open set in Minkowski space, and mappings ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reusability
In computer science and software engineering, reusability is the use of existing assets in some form within the software product development process; these assets are products and by-products of the software development life cycle and include code, software components, test suites, designs and documentation. The opposi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom%20of%20countability
In mathematics, an axiom of countability is a property of certain mathematical objects that asserts the existence of a countable set with certain properties. Without such an axiom, such a set might not provably exist. Important examples Important countability axioms for topological spaces include: sequential space: a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3-compact%20space
In mathematics, a topological space is said to be σ-compact if it is the union of countably many compact subspaces. A space is said to be σ-locally compact if it is both σ-compact and (weakly) locally compact. That terminology can be somewhat confusing as it does not fit the usual pattern of σ-(property) meaning a co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20science
Color science is the scientific study of color including lighting and optics; measurement of light and color; the physiology, psychophysics, and modeling of color vision; and color reproduction. Organizations International Commission on Illumination (CIE) Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Inter-Society Color...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual%20graph
A conceptual graph (CG) is a formalism for knowledge representation. In the first published paper on CGs, John F. Sowa used them to represent the conceptual schemas used in database systems. The first book on CGs applied them to a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence, computer science, and cognitive scienc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20Open%20Infrastructure%20for%20Network%20Computing
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC, pronounced – rhymes with "oink") is an open-source middleware system for volunteer computing (a type of distributed computing). Developed originally to support SETI@home, it became the platform for many other applications in areas as diverse as medicine, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number%20theory%20topics
This is a list of number theory topics. See also: List of recreational number theory topics Topics in cryptography Divisibility Composite number Highly composite number Even and odd numbers Parity Divisor, aliquot part Greatest common divisor Least common multiple Euclidean algorithm Coprime Euclid's lemma Bézout's ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension%20theorem%20for%20vector%20spaces
In mathematics, the dimension theorem for vector spaces states that all bases of a vector space have equally many elements. This number of elements may be finite or infinite (in the latter case, it is a cardinal number), and defines the dimension of the vector space. Formally, the dimension theorem for vector spaces s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navvy
Navvy, a clipping of navigator (UK) or navigational engineer (US), is particularly applied to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects and occasionally (in North America) to refer to mechanical shovels and earth moving machinery. The term was coined in the late 18th century in Great Bri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic%20and%20environmental%20engineering
Aquatic and environmental engineering; an engineering topic, used sometimes as a synonym for Civil engineering by some universities in Sweden, since the word 'civil engineer' often refers to an engineering degree. Engineering disciplines Aquatic engineering is where the engineer studies that of oceanography, and aqua...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imino%20acid
In organic chemistry, an imino acid is any molecule that contains both imine (>C=NH) and carboxyl (-C(=O)-OH) functional groups. Imino acids are structurally related to amino acids, which have amino group instead of imine—a difference of single vs double-bond between nitrogen and carbon. The simplest example is dehyd...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique%20of%20Pure%20Reason
The Critique of Pure Reason (; 1781; second edition 1787) is a book by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, in which the author seeks to determine the limits and scope of metaphysics. Also referred to as Kant's "First Critique", it was followed by his Critique of Practical Reason (1788) and Critique of Judgment (1790)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila%20Scott%20Macintyre
Sheila Scott Macintyre FRSE (23 April 1910 – 21 March 1960) was a Scottish mathematician best known for her work on the Whittaker constant. Macintyre is also known for co-authoring a German-English mathematics dictionary with Edith Witte. Education Sheila Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 23 April 1910, the d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing%20%28computer%20science%29
In computer science, boxing (a.k.a. wrapping) is the transformation of placing a primitive type within an object so that the value can be used as a reference. Unboxing is the reverse transformation of extracting the primitive value from its wrapper object. Autoboxing is the term for automatically applying boxing and/or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20algebraic%20topology%20topics
This is a list of algebraic topology topics. Homology (mathematics) Simplex Simplicial complex Polytope Triangulation Barycentric subdivision Simplicial approximation theorem Abstract simplicial complex Simplicial set Simplicial category Chain (algebraic topology) Betti number Euler characteristic Genus Riemann–Hurwi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lap-Chee%20Tsui
Lap-Chee Tsui (; born 21 December 1950) is a Chinese-born Canadian geneticist and served as the 14th Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Hong Kong. Personal life He grew up in Kowloon, Hong Kong and attended . He studied Biology at the New Asia College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and was aw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arg%20max
In mathematics, the arguments of the maxima (abbreviated arg max or argmax) are the points, or elements, of the domain of some function at which the function values are maximized. In contrast to global maxima, which refers to the largest outputs of a function, arg max refers to the inputs, or arguments, at which the fu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virasoro%20algebra
In mathematics, the Virasoro algebra (named after the physicist Miguel Ángel Virasoro) is a complex Lie algebra and the unique central extension of the Witt algebra. It is widely used in two-dimensional conformal field theory and in string theory. Definition The Virasoro algebra is spanned by generators for and the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901%20in%20science
The year 1901 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Biology Okapi, a relative of the Giraffe found in the rainforests around the Congo River in north east Zaire, is discovered (previously known only to local natives). Publication of Robert Ridgway's The Birds of North and Middle A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902%20in%20science
The year 1902 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Aeronautics May 15 – Lyman Gilmore claims to have flown his steam-powered fixed-wing aircraft, although his proof is supposedly destroyed in a 1935 fire. Chemistry Hermann Emil Fischer and Joseph von Mering discover that barbito...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20cover
In mathematics, a double cover or double covering may refer to: Double cover (topology), a two-to-one mapping from one topological space to another. Frequently occurring special cases include The orientable double cover of a non-orientable manifold The bipartite double cover of an undirected graph G, formed by the grap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1827%20in%20science
The year 1827 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Chemistry Aluminium isolated by Friedrich Wöhler. William Prout classifies the components of food into the three main divisions of carbohydrates, fats and proteins. Zeise's salt is the first platinum/olefin complex, an early exa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944%20in%20science
The year 1944 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy Hendrik van de Hulst predicts the 21 cm hyperfine line of neutral interstellar hydrogen. Biology February 1 – Oswald T. Avery and colleagues publish the Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment showing that a DNA molecule can ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1894%20in%20science
The year 1894 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy March 21 (23:00 GMT) – Syzygy: Mercury transits the Sun as seen from Venus, and Mercury and Venus both simultaneously transit the Sun as seen from Saturn. Biology Patrick Manson develops the thesis that malaria is spre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1808%20in%20science
The year 1808 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy December 9 (20:34 UTC) – Mercury occults Saturn (not known at this time). Chemistry Barium, calcium, magnesium, and strontium isolated by Humphry Davy. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac formulates the law of combining volumes f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1807%20in%20science
The year 1807 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy March 29 – H. W. Olbers discovers the asteroid which Carl Friedrich Gauss names Vesta. Chemistry Potassium and sodium are isolated by Sir Humphry Davy. The use of fulminate in firearms is patented by Scottish clergyma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20N.%20Bracewell
Ronald Newbold Bracewell AO (22 July 1921 – 12 August 2007) was the Lewis M. Terman Professor of Electrical Engineering of the Space, Telecommunications, and Radioscience Laboratory at Stanford University. Education Bracewell was born in Sydney, in 1921, and educated at Sydney Boys High School. He graduated from the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905%20in%20science
The year 1905 in science and technology involved some significant events, particularly in physics, listed below. Astronomy January 2 – Charles Dillon Perrine at Lick Observatory discovers Elara, one of the moons of Jupiter. On January 6, the observatory announces its discovery in the previous month of the Jovian moon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938%20in%20science
The year 1938 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy June 28 – A 450-ton meteorite strikes the Earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania, United States. Biology December 22 – Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer discovers a Coelacanth, formerly seen only in fossils million...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921%20in%20science
The year 1921 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy and space science Commencement of Gas Dynamics Laboratory the first Soviet research and development laboratory to focus on rocket technology. Cartography Winkel tripel projection proposed. Chemistry Étienne Biéler an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20geometric%20topology%20topics
This is a list of geometric topology topics. Low-dimensional topology Knot theory Knot (mathematics) Link (knot theory) Wild knots Examples of knots Unknot Trefoil knot Figure-eight knot (mathematics) Borromean rings Types of knots Torus knot Prime knot Alternating knot Hyperbolic link Knot invariants Crossing numbe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lippmann%20plate
Gabriel Lippmann conceived a two-step method to record and reproduce colours, variously known as direct photochromes, interference photochromes, Lippmann photochromes, Photography in natural colours by direct exposure in the camera or the Lippmann process of colour photography. Lippmann won the Nobel Prize in Physics f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse%20theory
In mathematics, specifically in differential topology, Morse theory enables one to analyze the topology of a manifold by studying differentiable functions on that manifold. According to the basic insights of Marston Morse, a typical differentiable function on a manifold will reflect the topology quite directly. Morse t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20order%20theory%20topics
Order theory is a branch of mathematics that studies various kinds of objects (often binary relations) that capture the intuitive notion of ordering, providing a framework for saying when one thing is "less than" or "precedes" another. An alphabetical list of many notions of order theory can be found in the order theo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot
Mandelbrot may refer to: Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010), a mathematician associated with fractal geometry Mandelbrot set, a fractal popularized by Benoit Mandelbrot Mandelbrot Competition, a mathematics competition Mandelbrot (cookie), dessert associated with Eastern European Jews Szolem Mandelbrojt, a Polish-Frenc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio%20Kaku
Michio Kaku (, ; born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, activist, futurologist, and popular-science writer. He is a professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center. Kaku is the author of several books about physics and related topics and has made frequent ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion-free
In mathematics, torsion-free may refer to: Abstract algebra Torsion-free group, a group whose only element of finite order is the identity Torsion-free module, module over an integral domain where zero is the only torsion element Torsion-free abelian group, an abelian group which is a torsion-free group Torsion-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawler
Crawler may refer to: Web crawler, a computer program that gathers and categorizes information on the World Wide Web A first-instar nymph of a scale insect that has legs and walks around before it attaches itself and becomes stationary Crawler (BEAM) in robotics A type of crane on tracks "Crawlers" (Into the Dar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodology
Hodology is the study of pathways. The word derives from the Greek hodos, meaning "path". It is used in various contexts: In neuroscience, it is the study of the interconnections of brain cells, now frequently called connectomics In psychology, it is a term introduced by Kurt Lewin (1890–1947) to describe paths in a p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective%20representation
In the field of representation theory in mathematics, a projective representation of a group G on a vector space V over a field F is a group homomorphism from G to the projective linear group where GL(V) is the general linear group of invertible linear transformations of V over F, and F∗ is the normal subgroup consist...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue%20%28material%29
In materials science, fatigue is the initiation and propagation of cracks in a material due to cyclic loading. Once a fatigue crack has initiated, it grows a small amount with each loading cycle, typically producing striations on some parts of the fracture surface. The crack will continue to grow until it reaches a cri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%20Biham
Eli Biham () is an Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst who is a professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Computer Science department. From 2008 to 2013, Biham was the dean of the Technion Computer Science department, after serving for two years as chief of CS graduate school. Biham invented (public...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichain
In mathematics, in the area of order theory, an antichain is a subset of a partially ordered set such that any two distinct elements in the subset are incomparable. The size of the largest antichain in a partially ordered set is known as its width. By Dilworth's theorem, this also equals the minimum number of chains (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linearly%20ordered%20group
In mathematics, specifically abstract algebra, a linearly ordered or totally ordered group is a group G equipped with a total order "≤" that is translation-invariant. This may have different meanings. We say that (G, ≤) is a: left-ordered group if ≤ is left-invariant, that is a ≤ b implies ca ≤ cb for all a, b, c in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido%20Fubini
Guido Fubini (19 January 1879 – 6 June 1943) was an Italian mathematician, known for Fubini's theorem and the Fubini–Study metric. Life Born in Venice, he was steered towards mathematics at an early age by his teachers and his father, who was himself a teacher of mathematics. In 1896 he entered the Scuola Normale Sup...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906%20in%20science
The year 1906 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Chemistry Charles Barkla discovers that each element has a characteristic X-ray and that the degree of penetration of these X-rays is related to the atomic weight of the element. Mikhail Tsvet first names the chromatography techn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907%20in%20science
The year 1907 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Mathematics Paul Koebe conjectures the result of the Koebe quarter theorem. Physics The Ehrenfest model of diffusion is proposed by Tatiana and Paul Ehrenfest to explain the second law of thermodynamics. Albert Einstein introdu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotini%20Markopoulou-Kalamara
Fotini G. Markopoulou-Kalamara (; born April 3, 1971) is a Greek theoretical physicist interested in quantum gravity, foundational mathematics, quantum mechanics and a design engineer working on embodied cognition technologies. Markopoulou is co-founder and CEO of Empathic Technologies. She was a founding faculty memb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1836%20in%20science
The year 1836 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy May 15 – Francis Baily, during an eclipse of the Sun, observes the phenomenon named after him as Baily's beads. Biology October 2 – Naturalist Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, England, aboard after a 5-year journey...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral%20geometry
In mathematics, integral geometry is the theory of measures on a geometrical space invariant under the symmetry group of that space. In more recent times, the meaning has been broadened to include a view of invariant (or equivariant) transformations from the space of functions on one geometrical space to the space of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro-osmosis
In chemistry, electro-osmotic flow (EOF, hyphen optional; synonymous with electro-osmosis or electro-endosmosis) is the motion of liquid induced by an applied potential across a porous material, capillary tube, membrane, microchannel, or any other fluid conduit. Because electro-osmotic velocities are independent of co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon%20number
In particle physics, the baryon number is a strictly conserved additive quantum number of a system. It is defined as where is the number of quarks, and is the number of antiquarks. Baryons (three quarks) have a baryon number of +1, mesons (one quark, one antiquark) have a baryon number of 0, and antibaryons (three a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformation
Conformation generally means structural arrangement and may refer to: Conformational isomerism, a form of stereoisomerism in chemistry Carbohydrate conformation Cyclohexane conformation Protein conformation Conformation activity relationship between the biological activity and the conformation or conformational ch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1909%20in%20science
The year 1909 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy August 20 – Dwarf planet Pluto is photographed for the first time, at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, U.S., 21 years before being identified. Comet Halley first becomes visible on a photographic plate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIP
MIP may refer to: Science Mixed integer programming, linear programming where some variables are constrained to be integers Minimum Ionizing Particle, in particle physics Maximum intensity projection, a computer visualization method Molecularly imprinted polymer, polymers processed using the molecular imprinting ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farey%20sequence
In mathematics, the Farey sequence of order n is the sequence of completely reduced fractions, either between 0 and 1, or without this restriction, which when in lowest terms have denominators less than or equal to n, arranged in order of increasing size. With the restricted definition, each Farey sequence starts with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman%20%28disambiguation%29
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) was a physicist. Feynman may also refer to: 7495 Feynman, asteroid Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology Other people with the surname Joan Feynman (1927–2020), astrophysicist, sister of Richard Yoann Feynman (born 1990), French musician See also Feynmanium Feinman, a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20combinatorics
Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics concerning the study of finite or countable discrete structures. Essence of combinatorics Matroid Greedoid Ramsey theory Van der Waerden's theorem Hales–Jewett theorem Umbral calculus, binomial type polynomial sequences Combinatorial species Branches of combinatorics ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDO
PDO can refer to: Chemistry 1,3-Propanediol, an industrial chemical Palladium(II) oxide (PdO) Polydioxanone, a synthetic polymer Computing PHP Data Objects, a PHP extension that can be used as a database abstraction layer Portable Distributed Objects, a version of Cocoa's Distributed Objects for remote use Proc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1686%20in%20science
The year 1686 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy Gottfried Kirch notices that Chi Cygni's brightness varies. Biology John Ray begins publication of his Historia Plantarum, including the first biological definition of the term species; also his edition of Francis Willughby's Histor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicism
In the philosophy of mathematics, logicism is a programme comprising one or more of the theses that — for some coherent meaning of 'logic' — mathematics is an extension of logic, some or all of mathematics is reducible to logic, or some or all of mathematics may be modelled in logic. Bertrand Russell and Alfred North W...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20dynamical%20systems%20and%20differential%20equations%20topics
This is a list of dynamical system and differential equation topics, by Wikipedia page. See also list of partial differential equation topics, list of equations. Dynamical systems, in general Deterministic system (mathematics) Linear system Partial differential equation Dynamical systems and chaos theory Chaos theory...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%20transform%20applied%20to%20differential%20equations
In mathematics, the Laplace transform is a powerful integral transform used to switch a function from the time domain to the s-domain. The Laplace transform can be used in some cases to solve linear differential equations with given initial conditions. First consider the following property of the Laplace transform: O...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas%20Zennstr%C3%B6m
Niklas Zennström (; born 16 February 1966) is a Swedish entrepreneur and technology investor. Zennström is also the co-founder of the charity organization Zennström Philanthropies. Education Zennström has dual degrees in Business Administration (BSc) and Engineering Physics (MSc) from Uppsala University. He spent his ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano%20observatory
A volcano observatory is an institution that conducts research and monitoring of a volcano. Each observatory provides continuous and periodic monitoring of the seismicity, other geophysical changes, ground movements, volcanic gas chemistry, and hydrologic conditions and activity between and during eruptions. They also...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1870%20in%20science
The year 1870 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Biology January 18 – Gerhardt Krefft first describes the Queensland lungfish, in The Sydney Morning Herald. Charles Valentine Riley confirms Phylloxera as the cause of the Great French Wine Blight. Chemistry Norman Lockyer and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951%20in%20science
The year 1951 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Biology Nesting pairs of the Bermuda petrel, thought to have been extinct for more than 300 years, are found. Niko Tinbergen publishes The Study of Instinct. Chemistry May 28 – Oliver H. Lowry submits his Lowry protein assay pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntax
In logic and computer science, a metasyntax describes the allowable structure and composition of phrases and sentences of a metalanguage, which is used to describe either a natural language or a computer programming language. Some of the widely used formal metalanguages for computer languages are Backus–Naur form (BNF)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20abstract%20algebra%20topics
Abstract algebra is the subject area of mathematics that studies algebraic structures, such as groups, rings, fields, modules, vector spaces, and algebras. The phrase abstract algebra was coined at the turn of the 20th century to distinguish this area from what was normally referred to as algebra, the study of the rule...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tincture
A tincture is typically an extract of plant or animal material dissolved in ethanol (ethyl alcohol). Solvent concentrations of 25–60% are common, but may run as high as 90%. In chemistry, a tincture is a solution that has ethanol as its solvent. In herbal medicine, alcoholic tinctures are made with various ethanol conc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%20space
In mathematics, a Cantor space, named for Georg Cantor, is a topological abstraction of the classical Cantor set: a topological space is a Cantor space if it is homeomorphic to the Cantor set. In set theory, the topological space 2ω is called "the" Cantor space. Examples The Cantor set itself is a Cantor space. But...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917%20in%20science
The year 1917 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Biology D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's On Growth and Form is published. Mathematics Paul Ehrenfest gives a conditional principle for a three-dimensional space. Medicine Shinobu Ishihara publishes his color perception test. Juliu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charged%20particle
In physics, a charged particle is a particle with an electric charge. It may be an ion, such as a molecule or atom with a surplus or deficit of electrons relative to protons. It can also be an electron or a proton, or another elementary particle, which are all believed to have the same charge (except antimatter). Anoth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Cockcroft
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power. After service on the Western Front with the Royal Field Artillery during th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feistel%20cipher
In cryptography, a Feistel cipher (also known as Luby–Rackoff block cipher) is a symmetric structure used in the construction of block ciphers, named after the German-born physicist and cryptographer Horst Feistel, who did pioneering research while working for IBM; it is also commonly known as a Feistel network. A larg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematics, the notion of a germ of an object in/on a topological space is an equivalence class of that object and others of the same kind that captures their shared local properties. In particular, the objects in question are mostly functions (or maps) and subsets. In specific implementations of this idea, the fun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenesis
Phylogenesis (from Greek φῦλον phylon "tribe" + γένεσις genesis "origin") is the biological process by which a taxon (of any rank) appears. The science that studies these processes is called phylogenetics. These terms may be confused with the term phylogenetics, the application of molecular - analytical methods (i.e. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude
Attitude may refer to: Philosophy and psychology Attitude (psychology), an individual's predisposed state of mind regarding a value Propositional attitude, a relational mental state connecting a person to a proposition Mathematics and engineering Orientation (geometry), also called attitude, an attribute of objec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%E2%80%93statistics%20theorem
In quantum mechanics, the spin–statistics theorem relates the intrinsic spin of a particle (angular momentum not due to the orbital motion) to the particle statistics it obeys. In units of the reduced Planck constant ħ, all particles that move in 3 dimensions have either integer spin or half-integer spin. Background ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-process
In nuclear astrophysics, the rapid neutron-capture process, also known as the r-process, is a set of nuclear reactions that is responsible for the creation of approximately half of the atomic nuclei heavier than iron, the "heavy elements", with the other half produced by the p-process and s-process. The r-process usual...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-process
The slow neutron-capture process, or s-process, is a series of reactions in nuclear astrophysics that occur in stars, particularly asymptotic giant branch stars. The s-process is responsible for the creation (nucleosynthesis) of approximately half the atomic nuclei heavier than iron. In the s-process, a seed nucleus u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1779%20in%20science
The year 1779 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy March 23 – Edward Pigott discovers the Black Eye Galaxy (M64). May 5 – The spiral galaxy M61 is discovered in the constellation Virgo by Barnabus Oriani. Exploration Horace-Bénédict de Saussure begins publication of Voyages dans le...