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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conchoid | Conchoid can refer to:
Conchoid (mathematics), an equation of a curve discovered by the mathematician Nicomedes
Conchoidal fracture, a breakage pattern characteristic to certain glasses and crystals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAST-256 | In cryptography, CAST-256 (or CAST6) is a symmetric-key block cipher published in June 1998. It was submitted as a candidate for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES); however, it was not among the five AES finalists. It is an extension of an earlier cipher, CAST-128; both were designed according to the "CAST" design ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson%20groups | In mathematics, the Thompson groups (also called Thompson's groups, vagabond groups or chameleon groups) are three groups, commonly denoted , that were introduced by Richard Thompson in some unpublished handwritten notes in 1965 as a possible counterexample to the von Neumann conjecture. Of the three, F is the most wid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson%20group | In mathematics, the term Thompson group or Thompson's group can refer to either
The finite Thompson sporadic group Th studied by John G. Thompson
The finite Thompson subgroup of a p-group, the subgroup generated by the abelian subgroups of maximal order.
"Thompson subgroup" can also mean an analogue of the Weyl gro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20M%C3%BChlstein | Jan Mühlstein (born 3 July 1949) is a journalist, German Jewish activist and the former chair of the Union of Progressive Jews in Germany.
Life
Jan Mühlstein was born on 3 July 1949 in Most, Czechoslovakia. He grew up in a German-speaking Jewish family, which traditionally practised Liberal Judaism. In 1967, he began... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Freudenthal | Hans Freudenthal (17 September 1905 – 13 October 1990) was a Jewish German-born Dutch mathematician. He made substantial contributions to algebraic topology and also took an interest in literature, philosophy, history and mathematics education.
Biography
Freudenthal was born in Luckenwalde, Brandenburg, on 17 Septemb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISTY1 | In cryptography, MISTY1 (or MISTY-1) is a block cipher designed in 1995 by Mitsuru Matsui and others for Mitsubishi Electric.
MISTY1 is one of the selected algorithms in the European NESSIE project, and has been among the cryptographic techniques recommended for Japanese government use by CRYPTREC in 2003; however, it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20processing | Audio processing may refer to:
Audio signal processing
Auditory system, particularly in the context of auditory processing disorder |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acylation | In chemistry, acylation is a broad class of chemical reactions in which an acyl group () is added to a substrate. The compound providing the acyl group is called the acylating agent. The substrate to be acylated and the product include the following:
alcohols, esters
amines, amides
arenes, ketones
A particularly commo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics%20Institute | The Robotics Institute (RI) is a division of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. A June 2014, the article in Robotics Business Review magazine calls it "the world's best robotics research facility" and a "pacesetter in robotics research and education... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952%20in%20science | The year 1952 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
August 1 – Around 9 o'clock AM Pacific Time Zone, the San Benedicto rock wren goes extinct as its island home is smothered in a massive volcanic eruption.
August 14 – Alan Turing's paper "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus%20of%20constructions | In mathematical logic and computer science, the calculus of constructions (CoC) is a type theory created by Thierry Coquand. It can serve as both a typed programming language and as constructive foundation for mathematics. For this second reason, the CoC and its variants have been the basis for Coq and other proof assi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950%20in%20science | The year 1950 in science and technology included some significant events.
Astronomy and space sciences
Dutch astronomer Jan Oort postulates the existence of an orbiting cloud of planets (the Oort cloud) at the outermost edge of the Solar System.
Enrico Fermi discusses the Fermi paradox.
Biology
Melvin Calvin, Jame... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949%20in%20science | The year 1949 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration
June 14 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, becomes the first mammal in space, in a U.S.-launched V-2 rocket, reaching an altitude of 83 miles (134 km) but dying on impact after a parachute failure.
Chem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948%20in%20science | The year 1948 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space science
February 16 – Miranda, innermost of the large moons of Uranus, is discovered by Gerard Kuiper from the McDonald Observatory in Texas.
October 10 – An R-1 (missile) on test becomes the first Soviet laun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943%20in%20science | The year 1943 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
July 21 – Living specimens of Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the Dawn Redwood, previously known only as a Mesozoic fossil, are located in China.
The University of Oxford acquires the nearby Wytham Woods which become an imp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals%20of%20Human%20Genetics | The Annals of Human Genetics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering human genetics. It was established in 1925 by Karl Pearson as the Annals of Eugenics, with as subtitle, Darwin's epigram "I have no Faith in anything short of actual measurement and the rule of three". The journal obtained its current... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%20%28cipher%29 | In cryptography, Square (sometimes written SQUARE) is a block cipher invented by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen. The design, published in 1997, is a forerunner to Rijndael, which has been adopted as the Advanced Encryption Standard. Square was introduced together with a new form of cryptanalysis discovered by Lars Knu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intransitivity | In mathematics, intransitivity (sometimes called nontransitivity) is a property of binary relations that are not transitive relations. This may include any relation that is not transitive, or the stronger property of antitransitivity, which describes a relation that is never transitive.
Intransitivity
A relation is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pod | Pod or POD may refer to:
Biology
Pod (fruit), a type of fruit of a flowering plant
Husk or pod of a legume
Pod of whales or other marine mammals
"-pod", a suffix meaning "foot" used in taxonomy
Electronics and computing
Proper orthogonal decomposition in the field of numerical simulation
Plain old data in com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalk | Stalk or stalking may refer to:
Behaviour
Stalk, the stealthy approach (phase) of a predator towards its prey
Stalking, an act of intrusive behaviour or unwanted attention towards a person
Deer stalking, the pursuit of deer for sport
Biology
Petiole (botany), a leaf stalk
Peduncle (botany), a stalk of an inflore... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941%20in%20science | The year 1941 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
George Wells Beadle and Edward Lawrie Tatum publish "Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions in Neurospora" which shows that specific genes code for specific proteins.
John William Field develops Field stain to detect ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%20in%20science | The year 1936 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Chemistry
February 4 – Radium E (bismuth-210) becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
December 23 – The first nerve agent, Tabun, is discovered (accidentally) by a research team headed by Dr Gerhard Schrad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935%20in%20science | The year 1935 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
May 14 – Opening of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California.
October 3 – Opening of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City.
Chemistry
February 28–March 1 – Working with polyamides to develop a viable new ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20for%20Plasma%20Physics | The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (, IPP) is a physics institute investigating the physical foundations of a fusion power plant.
The IPP is an institute of the Max Planck Society, part of the European Atomic Energy Community, and an associated member of the Helmholtz Association.
The IPP has two sites: Garc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20for%20Astrophysics | The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) is a research institute located in Garching, just north of Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is one of many scientific research institutes belonging to the Max Planck Society.
The MPA is widely considered to be one of the leading institutions in the world for theoretical astr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20for%20Extraterrestrial%20Physics | The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics is part of the Max Planck Society, located in Garching, near Munich, Germany.
In 1991 the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics split up into the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, the Max Planck Institute for Physics and the Max Planck I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yousef%20Alavi | Yousef Alavi (March 19, 1928 – May 21, 2013) was an Iranian born American mathematician who specialized in combinatorics and graph theory. He received his PhD from Michigan State University in 1958. He was a professor of mathematics at Western Michigan University from 1958 until his retirement in 1996; he chaired the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la%20Bollob%C3%A1s | Béla Bollobás FRS (born 3 August 1943) is a Hungarian-born British mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics, including functional analysis, combinatorics, graph theory, and percolation. He was strongly influenced by Paul Erdős since the age of 14.
Early life and education
As a student, he took part... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Lind | Don Leslie Lind (May 18, 1930 – August 30, 2022) was an American scientist, naval officer, aviator, and NASA astronaut. He graduated from the University of Utah with an undergraduate degree in physics in 1953. Following his military service obligation, he earned a PhD in high-energy nuclear physics from the University ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Faudree | Ralph Jasper Faudree (August 23, 1939 – January 13, 2015) was a mathematician, a professor of mathematics and the former provost of the University of Memphis.
Faudree was born in Durant, Oklahoma. He did his undergraduate studies at Oklahoma Baptist University, graduating in 1961, and received his Ph.D. in 1964 from P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20David%20Low | George David Low (February 19, 1956 – March 15, 2008) was an American aerospace executive and a NASA astronaut. With undergraduate degrees in physics and mechanical engineering and a master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics, he worked in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Techno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%20F.%20Lederer | Jerome F. Lederer (September 26, 1902 – February 6, 2004) was an American aviation-safety pioneer, known as "Mr. Aviation Safety."
He was born in New York City. He received a BSC in mechanical engineering with aeronautical options in 1924 and an M.E. in 1925 from New York University. In 1926, he was hired by the Unite... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterogeneous%20Element%20Processor | The Heterogeneous Element Processor (HEP) was introduced by Denelcor, Inc. in 1982. The HEP's architect was Burton Smith. The machine was designed to solve fluid dynamics problems for the Ballistic Research Laboratory. A HEP system, as the name implies, was pieced together from many heterogeneous components -- process... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylpropanolamine | Phenylpropanolamine (PPA) is a sympathomimetic agent which is used as a decongestant and appetite suppressant. It was commonly used in prescription and over-the-counter cough and cold preparations. In veterinary medicine, it is used to control urinary incontinence in dogs.
Chemistry
PPA is also known as β-hydroxyamp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganalysis | Steganalysis is the study of detecting messages hidden using steganography; this is analogous to cryptanalysis applied to cryptography.
Overview
The goal of steganalysis is to identify suspected packages, determine whether or not they have a payload encoded into them, and, if possible, recover that payload.
Unlike... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20H.%20Ellis | James Henry Ellis (25 September 1924 – 25 November 1997) was a British engineer and cryptographer. In 1970, while working at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, he conceived of the possibility of "non-secret encryption", more commonly termed public-key cryptography.
Early life, education a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHAZAD | In cryptography, KHAZAD is a block cipher designed by Paulo S. L. M. Barreto together with Vincent Rijmen, one of the designers of the Advanced Encryption Standard (Rijndael). KHAZAD is named after Khazad-dûm, the fictional dwarven realm in the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien (see also Khazad). KHAZAD was presented at th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey%20Tikhonov%20%28mathematician%29 | Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov (; 17 October 1906 – 7 October 1993) was a leading Soviet Russian mathematician and geophysicist known for important contributions to topology, functional analysis, mathematical physics, and ill-posed problems. He was also one of the inventors of the magnetotellurics method in geophysics. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus%20Tideman | Thorwald Nicolaus Tideman (, not ; born August 11, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois) is a Georgist economist and professor at Virginia Tech. He received his Bachelor of Arts in economics and mathematics from Reed College in 1965 and his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1969. Tideman was an Assistant Profess... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IHP | IHP may refer to:
Indicated horsepower
Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics, a German institute and part of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community
Institut Henri Poincaré, a mathematics research institute in Paris, France
Integrated Humanities Program
International Hydrological Programme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKCS | In cryptography, PKCS (Public Key Cryptography Standards) are a group of public key cryptography standards devised and published by RSA Security LLC, starting in the early 1990s. The company published the standards to promote the use of the cryptography techniques to which they had patents, such as the RSA algorithm, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Sumner | James Sumner may refer to:
James Sumner (Medal of Honor) (1840–1912), United States Army soldier and a recipient of the Medal of Honor
James Sumner (baseball) (1851–1881), American baseball umpire
James B. Sumner (1887–1955), American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
James Edward (Red) Sumner, Jr. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPM | IPM may refer to:
Organizations
Independence Party of Minnesota, a political party in Minnesota, United States
Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, a research institute in Tehran, Iran
Institute of Personnel Management, now the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
International... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone%E2%80%93oxygen%20cycle | The ozone–oxygen cycle is the process by which ozone is continually regenerated in Earth's stratosphere, converting ultraviolet radiation (UV) into heat. In 1930 Sydney Chapman resolved the chemistry involved. The process is commonly called the Chapman cycle by atmospheric scientists.
Most of the ozone production occu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-prime%20cap | In molecular biology, the five-prime cap (5′ cap) is a specially altered nucleotide on the 5′ end of some primary transcripts such as precursor messenger RNA. This process, known as mRNA capping, is highly regulated and vital in the creation of stable and mature messenger RNA able to undergo translation during protein ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin%20Otto%20Leuschner | Armin Otto Leuschner (January 16, 1868 – April 22, 1953) was an American astronomer and educator.
Biography
Leuschner was born on January 16, 1868, in Detroit, Michigan, but raised in Germany. He returned to the United States for university studies, graduating from the University of Michigan in 1888 with a degree in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo%20Cerulli | Vincenzo Cerulli (20 April 1859 – 30 May 1927) was an Italian astronomer and founder of the Collurania-Teramo Observatory in Teramo, central Italy, where he was born.
He earned a degree in physics from the Sapienza University of Rome in 1881, and continued his studies at the University of Berlin. Cerulli compiled a st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction%20%28disambiguation%29 | Extinction, in biology and palaeontology, is the end of a species or other taxon.
Extinction may also refer to:
Science
Mass extinction, or extinction event, a widespread and rapid decrease in the amount of life on earth
Human extinction (end of the human species)
Language extinction, or language death
Extinctio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicircle | In mathematics (and more specifically geometry), a semicircle is a one-dimensional locus of points that forms half of a circle. It is a circular arc that measures 180° (equivalently, radians, or a half-turn). It has only one line of symmetry (reflection symmetry).
In non-technical usage, the term "semicircle" is som... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radomir%20Naumov | Radomir Naumov (; 12 May 1946 – 22 May 2015) was a Serbian politician and engineer. He served as the Minister of Religion from 2007 to 2008, and as the Minister of Mining and Energy from 2004 to 2007.
Naumov graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Electrical Engineering. He worked at the Nikola Tesla Elec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20engineering | Power engineering, also called power systems engineering, is a subfield of electrical engineering that deals with the generation, transmission, distribution, and utilization of electric power, and the electrical apparatus connected to such systems. Although much of the field is concerned with the problems of three-phas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20power%20conversion | In all fields of electrical engineering, power conversion is the process of converting electric energy from one form to another. A power converter is an electrical or electro-mechanical device for converting electrical energy. A power converter can convert alternating current (AC) into direct current (DC) and vice vers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Muon%20Ionization%20Cooling%20Experiment | The International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (or MICE) is a high energy physics experiment at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The experiment is a recognized CERN experiment (RE11).
MICE is designed to demonstrate ionization cooling of muons. This is a process whereby the emittance of a beam is reduced in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpartner | In particle physics, a superpartner (also sparticle) is a class of hypothetical elementary particles predicted by supersymmetry, which, among other applications, is one of the well-studied ways to extend the standard model of high-energy physics.
When considering extensions of the Standard Model, the s- prefix from sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorber | In high energy physics experiments, an absorber is a block of material used to absorb some of the energy of an incident particle in an experiment. Absorbers can be made of a variety of materials, depending on the purpose; lead, tungsten and liquid hydrogen are common choices. Most absorbers are used as part of a partic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coset%20enumeration | In mathematics, coset enumeration is the problem of counting the cosets of a subgroup H of a group G given in terms of a presentation. As a by-product, one obtains a permutation representation for G on the cosets of H. If H has a known finite order, coset enumeration gives the order of G as well.
For small groups it i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20group%20theory | In mathematics, computational group theory is the study of
groups by means of computers. It is concerned
with designing and analysing algorithms and
data structures to compute information about groups. The subject
has attracted interest because for many interesting groups
(including most of the sporadic groups) it is i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive%20compartmented%20information | Sensitive compartmented information (SCI) is a type of United States classified information concerning or derived from sensitive intelligence sources, methods, or analytical processes. All SCI must be handled within formal access control systems established by the Director of National Intelligence.
SCI is not a classi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLT | FLT may refer to:
Mathematics
Fermat's Last Theorem, in number theory
Fermat's little theorem, using modular arithmetic
Finite Legendre transform, in algebra
Medicine
Alovudine (fluorothymidine), a pharmaceutical drug
Fluorothymidine F-18, a radiolabeled pharmaceutical drug
Places
Finger Lakes Trail, New York,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARK | In cryptography, SHARK is a block cipher identified as one of the predecessors of Rijndael (the Advanced Encryption Standard).
SHARK has a 64-bit block size and a 128-bit key size. It is a six-round SP-network which alternates a key mixing stage with linear and non-linear transformation layers. The linear transformati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrile | In organic chemistry, a nitrile is any organic compound that has a functional group. The name of the compound is composed of a base, which includes the carbon of the , suffixed with "nitrile", so for example is called "propionitrile" (or propanenitrile). The prefix cyano- is used interchangeably with the term nitrile... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DES-X | In cryptography, DES-X (or DESX) is a variant on the DES (Data Encryption Standard) symmetric-key block cipher intended to increase the complexity of a brute-force attack. The technique used to increase the complexity is called key whitening.
The original DES algorithm was specified in 1976 with a 56-bit key size: 256... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred%20von%20Ardenne | Manfred baron von Ardenne (; 20 January 190726 May 1997) was a German researcher and applied physicist and inventor. He took out approximately 600 patents in fields including electron microscopy, medical technology, nuclear technology, plasma physics, and radio and television technology. From 1928 to 1945, he directed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-measurable%20set | In mathematics, a non-measurable set is a set which cannot be assigned a meaningful "volume". The mathematical existence of such sets is construed to provide information about the notions of length, area and volume in formal set theory. In Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, the axiom of choice entails that non-measurable su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20J.%20Weinberger | Peter Jay Weinberger (born August 6, 1942) is a computer scientist best known for his early work at Bell Labs. He now works at Google.
Weinberger was an undergraduate at Swarthmore College, graduating in 1964. He received his PhD in mathematics (number theory) in 1969 from the University of California, Berkeley unde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramp%20%28disambiguation%29 | A Ramp or Inclined plane is a simple machine.
Ramp may also refer to:
Businesses and organisations
Ramp (company), an American financial service and technology company based in New York, NY.
Science
Ramp function, in mathematics the integral of the unit step function
Receptor activity-modifying protein (RAMP), a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth | Twelfth can mean:
The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Twelfth, a Protestant celebration originating in Ireland
In mathematics:
12th, an ordinal number; as in the item in an order twelve places from the beginning, following the eleventh and preceding the thirteenth
1/12, a vulgar fraction, one... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau%E2%80%93Ramanujan%20constant | In mathematics and the field of number theory, the Landau–Ramanujan constant is the positive real number b that occurs in a theorem proved by Edmund Landau in 1908, stating that for large , the number of positive integers below that are the sum of two square numbers behaves asymptotically as
This constant b was redis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio%20Calabi | Eugenio Calabi (May 11, 1923 – September 25, 2023) was an Italian-born American mathematician and the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in differential geometry, partial differential equations and their applications.
Early life and education
Calabi was born in Mil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartan%27s%20theorems%20A%20and%20B | In mathematics, Cartan's theorems A and B are two results proved by Henri Cartan around 1951, concerning a coherent sheaf on a Stein manifold . They are significant both as applied to several complex variables, and in the general development of sheaf cohomology.
Theorem B is stated in cohomological terms (a formulat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20topology | In mathematics, geometric topology is the study of manifolds and maps between them, particularly embeddings of one manifold into another.
History
Geometric topology as an area distinct from algebraic topology may be said to have originated in the 1935 classification of lens spaces by Reidemeister torsion, which requi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20amateur%20mathematicians | This is a list of amateur mathematicians—people whose primary vocation did not involve mathematics (or any similar discipline) yet made notable, and sometimes important, contributions to the field of mathematics.
Ahmes (scribe)
Ashutosh Mukherjee (lawyer)
Robert Ammann (programmer and postal worker)
John Arbuthnot (su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-dimensional%20topology | In mathematics, low-dimensional topology is the branch of topology that studies manifolds, or more generally topological spaces, of four or fewer dimensions. Representative topics are the structure theory of 3-manifolds and 4-manifolds, knot theory, and braid groups. This can be regarded as a part of geometric topology... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl%20F.%20Mallett | Daryl Furumi Mallett is an American author, editor, publisher, actor, producer and screenwriter.
Early life
Daryl Furumi Mallett was born on May 3, 1969, in <<Los Angeles, California>>. His father, Dr. William Robert "Bill" Mallett (1932- ) holds a Ph.D. in chemistry and worked at Union Oil Company (Union 76). His mot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Heegner | Kurt Heegner (; 16 December 1893 – 2 February 1965) was a German private scholar from Berlin, who specialized in
radio engineering and mathematics. He is famous for his mathematical discoveries in number theory and, in particular, the Stark–Heegner theorem.
Life and career
Heegner was born and died in Berlin. In 195... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tectonophysics | Tectonophysics, a branch of geophysics, is the study of the physical processes that underlie tectonic deformation. This includes measurement or calculation of the stress- and strain fields on Earth’s surface and the rheologies of the crust, mantle, lithosphere and asthenosphere.
Overview
Tectonophysics is concerned w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%20Ambartsumian | Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian (; , Viktor Hamazaspi Hambardzumyan; 12 August 1996) was a Soviet Armenian astrophysicist and science administrator. One of the 20th century's top astronomers, he is widely regarded as the founder of theoretical astrophysics in the Soviet Union.
Educated at Leningrad State University (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-matrix | In physics, the S-matrix or scattering matrix relates the initial state and the final state of a physical system undergoing a scattering process. It is used in quantum mechanics, scattering theory and quantum field theory (QFT).
More formally, in the context of QFT, the S-matrix is defined as the unitary matrix connec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Massimino | Michael James Massimino (born August 19, 1962) is an American professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University and a former NASA astronaut. He is the senior advisor of space programs at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.
Early life
Massimino was born August 19, 1962, in Oceanside, New York, and raised i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20Messerschmid | Ernst Willi Messerschmid (born 21 May 1945) is a German physicist and former astronaut.
Born in Reutlingen, Germany, Messerschmid finished the Technisches Gymnasium in Stuttgart in 1965. After two years of military service he studied physics at the University of Tübingen and Bonn, receiving a Diplom degree in 1972 and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous%20function | In mathematics, a homogeneous function is a function of several variables such that, if all its arguments are multiplied by a scalar, then its value is multiplied by some power of this scalar, called the degree of homogeneity, or simply the degree; that is, if is an integer, a function of variables is homogeneous of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin%20problems | In mathematics, the Cousin problems are two questions in several complex variables, concerning the existence of meromorphic functions that are specified in terms of local data. They were introduced in special cases by Pierre Cousin in 1895. They are now posed, and solved, for any complex manifold M, in terms of conditi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20William%20Watson | Rev. Henry William Watson FRS (25 February 1827, Marylebone, London11 January 1903, Berkswell near Coventry) was a mathematician and author of a number of mathematics books. He was an ordained priest and Cambridge Apostle.
Life
He was born at Marylebone on 25 Feb. 1827.
He was the son of Thomas Watson, R.N., and Elean... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20and%20Engineering%20Research%20Council | The Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) and its predecessor the Science Research Council (SRC) were the UK agencies in charge of publicly funded scientific and engineering research activities, including astronomy, biotechnology and biological sciences, space research and particle physics, between 1965 and 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain%20J.%20Williams | Britain J. Williams III is a Professor Emeritus of computer science at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, and is consultant with the school's Center For Election Systems. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from the University of Georgia, and a PhD is in Statistics
from the University of Georgia ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyoxometalate | In chemistry, a polyoxometalate (abbreviated POM) is a polyatomic ion, usually an anion, that consists of three or more transition metal oxyanions linked together by shared oxygen atoms to form closed 3-dimensional frameworks. The metal atoms are usually group 6 (Mo, W) or less commonly group 5 (V, Nb, Ta) and group 7 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forb | A forb or phorb is a herbaceous flowering plant that is not a graminoid (grass, sedge, or rush). The term is used in biology and in vegetation ecology, especially in relation to grasslands and understory. Typically these are dicots without woody stems.
Etymology
The word "forb" is derived from Greek (), meaning "past... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Draper%20Medal | The Henry Draper Medal is awarded every 4 years by the United States National Academy of Sciences "for investigations in astronomical physics". Named after Henry Draper, the medal is awarded with a gift of USD $15,000. The medal was established under the Draper Fund by his widow, Anna Draper, in honor of her husband, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastomere | In biology, a blastomere is a type of cell produced by cell division (cleavage) of the zygote after fertilization; blastomeres are an essential part of blastula formation, and blastocyst formation in mammals.
Human blastomere characteristics
In humans, blastomere formation begins immediately following fertilization a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20H.%20Newman | James Hansen Newman (born October 16, 1956) is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions.
NASA career
After graduating from Rice University in 1984, Newman did an additional year of post-doctoral work at Rice. His research interests are in atomic and molecular physics, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20I.%20Noriega | Carlos Ismael Noriega (born 8 October 1959) is a Peruvian-American NASA employee, a former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel.
Education
1977: Graduated from Wilcox High School, Santa Clara, California
1981: Bachelor of science degree in computer science from University of Southern Cal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadatoshi%20Akiba | is a Japanese mathematician and politician and served as the mayor of the city of Hiroshima, Japan from 1999 to 2011.
Early life
He studied mathematics at the University of Tokyo, receiving a B.S. in 1966 and an M.S. in 1968. He continued his studies under John Milnor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolfo%20Neri%20Vela | Rodolfo Neri Vela (born 19 February 1952) is a Mexican scientist and astronaut who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission in the year 1985. He is the second Latin American to have traveled to space.
Personal
Neri was born in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico. He is a professor for the Telecommunications Department in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis%20Clarke | Sir Ellis Emmanuel Innocent Clarke (28 December 191730 December 2010) was the first President of Trinidad and Tobago and the second and last Governor-General. He was one of the main architects of Trinidad and Tobago's 1962 Independence constitution.
Early life
Clarke attended Saint Mary's College, winning an Island ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagat%27s%20law | Amagat's law or the law of partial volumes describes the behaviour and properties of mixtures of ideal (as well as some cases of non-ideal) gases. It is of use in chemistry and thermodynamics. It is named after Emile Amagat.
Overview
Amagat's law states that the extensive volume V = Nv of a gas mixture is equal to th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clasper | In biology, a clasper is a male anatomical structure found in some groups of animals, used in mating.
Male cartilaginous fish have claspers formed from the posterior portion of their pelvic fin which serve to channel semen into the female's cloaca during mating. The act of mating in some fish including sharks usuall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20the%20Cruelty%20of%20Really%20Teaching%20Computer%20Science | "On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computing Science" is a 1988 scholarly article by E. W. Dijkstra which argues that computer programming should be understood as a branch of mathematics, and that the formal provability of a program is a major criterion for correctness.
Despite the title, most of the article is on Dij... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20partition%20topics | Generally, a partition is a division of a whole into non-overlapping parts. Among the kinds of partitions considered in mathematics are
partition of a set or an ordered partition of a set,
partition of a graph,
partition of an integer,
partition of an interval,
partition of unity,
partition of a matrix; see bloc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence%20of%20a%20number | In mathematics, the persistence of a number is the number of times one must apply a given operation to an integer before reaching a fixed point at which the operation no longer alters the number.
Usually, this involves additive or multiplicative persistence of a non-negative integer, which is how often one has to repl... |
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