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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurer%E2%80%93Cartan%20form | In mathematics, the Maurer–Cartan form for a Lie group is a distinguished differential one-form on that carries the basic infinitesimal information about the structure of . It was much used by Élie Cartan as a basic ingredient of his method of moving frames, and bears his name together with that of Ludwig Maurer.
As... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramachandran%20plot | In biochemistry, a Ramachandran plot (also known as a Rama plot, a Ramachandran diagram or a [φ,ψ] plot), originally developed in 1963 by G. N. Ramachandran, C. Ramakrishnan, and V. Sasisekharan, is a way to visualize energetically allowed regions for backbone dihedral angles ψ against φ of amino acid residues in prote... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indecomposability | Indecomposability or indecomposable may refer to any of several subjects in mathematics:
Indecomposable module, in algebra
Indecomposable distribution, in probability
Indecomposable continuum, in topology
Indecomposability (intuitionistic logic), a principle in constructive analysis and in computable analysis
Ind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20calculus | In mathematics, a functional calculus is a theory allowing one to apply mathematical functions to mathematical operators. It is now a branch (more accurately, several related areas) of the field of functional analysis, connected with spectral theory. (Historically, the term was also used synonymously with calculus of v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal%20counterexample | In mathematics, a minimal counterexample is the smallest example which falsifies a claim, and a proof by minimal counterexample is a method of proof which combines the use of a minimal counterexample with the ideas of proof by induction and proof by contradiction. More specifically, in trying to prove a proposition P, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZL | ZL may refer to:
Aviation
Hazelton Airlines (1953–2001; IATA: ZL)
Rex Airlines (founded 2002; IATA: ZL)
ZL, an unused aircraft registration prefix for New Zealand
Science, technology and mathematics
ZL, ITU prefix for New Zealand, in radio and television
Zorn's lemma, a proposition in set theory
ZL, a Mazda Z5... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidics | Fluidics, or fluidic logic, is the use of a fluid to perform analog or digital operations similar to those performed with electronics.
The physical basis of fluidics is pneumatics and hydraulics, based on the theoretical foundation of fluid dynamics. The term fluidics is normally used when devices have no moving parts... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out%20of%20Control%20%28Kelly%20book%29 | Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World () is a 1992 book by Kevin Kelly. Major themes in Out of Control are cybernetics, emergence, self-organization, complex systems, negentropy and chaos theory and it can be seen as a work of techno-utopianism.
Summary
The central theme o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archerite | Archerite (IMA symbol: Aht) is a phosphate mineral with chemical formula (K,NH4)H2PO4. It's named after Michael Archer (born 25 March 1945), professor of Biology, University of New South Wales. Its type locality is Petrogale Cave, Madura Roadhouse, Dundas Shire, Western Australia. It occurs in guano containing caves as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Stallings | William Stallings is an American author. He has written computer science textbooks on operating systems, computer networks, computer organization, and cryptography.
Early life
Stallings earned his B.S. in electrical engineering from University of Notre Dame and his PhD in computer science from Massachusetts Institute... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic | Algebraic may refer to any subject related to algebra in mathematics and related branches like algebraic number theory and algebraic topology. The word algebra itself has several meanings.
Algebraic may also refer to:
Algebraic data type, a datatype in computer programming each of whose values is data from other data... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20patents%20in%20the%20United%20States | As with all utility patents in the United States, a biological patent provides the patent holder with the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, or importing the claimed invention or discovery in biology for a limited period of time - for patents filed after 1998, 20 years from the filing date.
Until rec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal%20paradox | A temporal paradox, time paradox, or time travel paradox, is a paradox, an apparent contradiction, or logical contradiction associated with the idea of time travel or other foreknowledge of the future. While the notion of time travel to the future complies with the current understanding of physics via relativistic time... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesz%E2%80%93Thorin%20theorem | In mathematics, the Riesz–Thorin theorem, often referred to as the Riesz–Thorin interpolation theorem or the Riesz–Thorin convexity theorem, is a result about interpolation of operators. It is named after Marcel Riesz and his student G. Olof Thorin.
This theorem bounds the norms of linear maps acting between spaces.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Kuhn | Richard Johann Kuhn (; 3 December 1900 – 1 August 1967) was an Austrian-German biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938 "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins".
Biography
Early life
Kuhn was born in Vienna, Austria, where he attended grammar school and high school. His interest in chemistry ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster%20%28disambiguation%29 | Westminster is an area within the City of Westminster, London, UK.
Westminster may also refer to:
Education
University of Westminster, London, U.D.
Westminster College of Chemistry and Pharmacy, a defunct College of Chemistry and Pharmacy in London, founded in 1841
Westminster Seminary California, a Reformed seminary... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuo%20Yoneda | was a Japanese mathematician and computer scientist.
In 1952, he graduated the Department of Mathematics, the Faculty of Science, the University of Tokyo, and obtained his Bachelor of Science. That same year, he was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Tokyo. He obtained ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20for%20Evolutionary%20Anthropology | The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (, shortened to MPI EVA) is a research institute based in Leipzig, Germany, that was founded in 1997. It is part of the Max Planck Society network.
Well-known scientists currently based at the institute include founding director Svante Pääbo and Johannes Krause (g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrability%20conditions%20for%20differential%20systems | In mathematics, certain systems of partial differential equations are usefully formulated, from the point of view of their underlying geometric and algebraic structure, in terms of a system of differential forms. The idea is to take advantage of the way a differential form restricts to a submanifold, and the fact that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Mathematical%20Society | The European Mathematical Society (EMS) is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians. The current president is Jan Philip Solovej, professor at the Department of Mathemati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimage%20attack | In cryptography, a preimage attack on cryptographic hash functions tries to find a message that has a specific hash value. A cryptographic hash function should resist attacks on its preimage (set of possible inputs).
In the context of attack, there are two types of preimage resistance:
preimage resistance: for esse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision%20attack | In cryptography, a collision attack on a cryptographic hash tries to find two inputs producing the same hash value, i.e. a hash collision. This is in contrast to a preimage attack where a specific target hash value is specified.
There are roughly two types of collision attacks:
Classical collision attack Find two diff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assortment | Assortment may refer to:
Assortment (assortiment, the parts of a clockwork movement other than the ébauche
Assortment (album), by Atomic Rooster, 1973
See also
Law of independent assortment in genetics
Retail assortment strategies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay%20S.%20Pande | Vijay Satyanand Pande is a Trinidadian–American scientist and venture capitalist. Pande is the former director of the biophysics program and is best known for orchestrating the distributed computing disease research project known as Folding@home. His research is focused on distributed computing and computer-modelling o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Combat | Space Combat is a game produced by Laminar Research to provide a simulation of space combat with accurate physics, unlike most other games of the same genre. Although originally a shareware game, the latest version of Space Combat—1.40—was released as freeware.
In the game, the laws of physics are modeled fully, so sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminar%20Research | Laminar Research is a small software company based in Columbia, South Carolina, and dedicated to providing software that accurately reflects the laws of physics. Laminar's flagship product is the flight simulator X-Plane. The game works with Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, and Linux. They also have mobile versions for iP... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chern%E2%80%93Weil%20homomorphism | In mathematics, the Chern–Weil homomorphism is a basic construction in Chern–Weil theory that computes topological invariants of vector bundles and principal bundles on a smooth manifold M in terms of connections and curvature representing classes in the de Rham cohomology rings of M. That is, the theory forms a bridge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Wilhelm%20Gottlob%20Kastner | Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (31 October 1783 – 13 July 1857) was a German chemist, natural scientist and a professor of physics and chemistry.
Biography
Kastner received his doctorate in 1805 under the guidance of Johann Göttling and began lecturing at the University of Jena. He moved on to become professor at the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Drew | Michael Drew is a professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Reading. He used to hold the position of head of physical chemistry. His main area of study centres on computational chemistry.
External links
British physical chemists
Academics of the University of Reading
Living people
Year of birth missing (li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Alphanumeric%20Symbols | Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols is a Unicode block comprising styled forms of Latin and Greek letters and decimal digits that enable mathematicians to denote different notions with different letter styles. The letters in various fonts often have specific, fixed meanings in particular areas of mathematics. By providin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductive%20dechlorination | In organochlorine chemistry, reductive dechlorination describes any chemical reaction which cleaves the covalent bond between carbon and chlorine via reductants, to release chloride ions. Many modalities have been implemented, depending on the application. Reductive dechlorination is often applied to remediation of ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Acronius%20Frisius | Johannes Acronius Frisius (1520 – 18 October 1564) was a Dutch doctor and mathematician of the 16th century.
He was named after his city of birth, Akkrum in Friesland. From 1547 he worked as professor of mathematics in Basel, then after 1549 as professor of logic, and in 1564 of medicine. He died from the plague in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane%20curve | In mathematics, a plane curve is a curve in a plane that may be either a Euclidean plane, an affine plane or a projective plane. The most frequently studied cases are smooth plane curves (including piecewise smooth plane curves), and algebraic plane curves.
Plane curves also include the Jordan curves (curves that enclo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20L.%20Rogers | Russell Lee Rogers (April 12, 1928 – September 13, 1967), (Lt Col, USAF), was an American electrical engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and astronaut in the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
Early life and education
Rogers was born on April 12, 1928, in Lawrence, Kansas. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in el... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%20branch | In mathematics, a principal branch is a function which selects one branch ("slice") of a multi-valued function. Most often, this applies to functions defined on the complex plane.
Examples
Trigonometric inverses
Principal branches are used in the definition of many inverse trigonometric functions, such as the sele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive%20creationism | Progressive creationism (see for comparison intelligent design) is the religious belief that God created new forms of life gradually over a period of hundreds of millions of years. As a form of old Earth creationism, it accepts mainstream geological and cosmological estimates for the age of the Earth, some tenets of bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCMP%20%28cryptography%29 | Counter Mode Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol (Counter Mode CBC-MAC Protocol) or CCM mode Protocol (CCMP) is an encryption protocol designed for Wireless LAN products that implements the standards of the IEEE 802.11i amendment to the original IEEE 802.11 standard. CCMP is an enhanced data cryp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfinite%20type%20II%20factor | In mathematics, there are up to isomorphism exactly two separably acting hyperfinite type II factors; one infinite and one finite. Murray and von Neumann proved that up to isomorphism there is a unique von Neumann algebra that is a factor of type II1 and also hyperfinite; it is called the hyperfinite type II1 factor.
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxology | Auxology (from Greek , auxō, or , auxanō 'grow'; and , -logia) is a meta-term covering the study of all aspects of human physical growth. (Although, it is also fundamental of biology.) Auxology is a multi-disciplinary science involving health sciences/medicine (pediatrics, general practice, endocrinology, neuroendocrin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematics%20%28disambiguation%29 | In biology, systematics studies the diversity of organismal characteristics.
Systematics may also refer to:
Other academic fields
Systematics (systems science), the study of inherent properties of systems based on their number of terms
Systematic theology, of Christian doctrine
Other uses
Systematic Paris-Regi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tong%20Dizhou | Tong Dizhou (; May 28, 1902 – March 30, 1979) was a Chinese embryologist known for his contributions to the field of cloning. He was a vice president of Chinese Academy of Science.
Biography
Born in Yinxian, Zhejiang province, Tong graduated from Fudan University in 1924 with a degree in biology, and received a PhD in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crelle%27s%20Journal | Crelle's Journal, or just Crelle, is the common name for a mathematics journal, the Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (in English: Journal for Pure and Applied Mathematics).
History
The journal was founded by August Leopold Crelle (Berlin) in 1826 and edited by him until his death in 1855. It was one of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Bassett | Charles Arthur Bassett II (December 30, 1931 – February 28, 1966), (Major, USAF), was an American electrical engineer and United States Air Force test pilot. He went to Ohio State University for two years and later graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. He join... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite%20conjugacy%20class%20property | In mathematics, a group is said to have the infinite conjugacy class property, or to be an ICC group, if the conjugacy class of every group element but the identity is infinite.
The von Neumann group algebra of a group is a factor if and only if the group has the infinite conjugacy class property. It will then be, pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic%20Euler%20equations | In fluid mechanics and astrophysics, the relativistic Euler equations are a generalization of the Euler equations that account for the effects of general relativity. They have applications in high-energy astrophysics and numerical relativity, where they are commonly used for describing phenomena such as gamma-ray burst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addition%20theorem | In mathematics, an addition theorem is a formula such as that for the exponential function:
ex + y = ex · ey,
that expresses, for a particular function f, f(x + y) in terms of f(x) and f(y). Slightly more generally, as is the case with the trigonometric functions and , several functions may be involved; this is more... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grounding | Grounding or grounded may refer to:
Science and philosophy
Grounding (metaphysics), a topic of wide philosophical interest
Grounding (psychology), a strategy for coping with stress or other negative emotions
Grounding in communication, the collection of mutual knowledge, beliefs, and assumptions; "common ground"
G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS-3 | BIOS-3 is an experimental closed ecosystem at the Institute of Biophysics in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Its construction began in 1965, and was completed in 1972. BIOS-3 consists of a underground steel structure suitable for up to three persons, and was initially used for developing closed ecological human life-support eco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automorphic%20function | In mathematics, an automorphic function is a function on a space that is invariant under the action of some group, in other words a function on the quotient space. Often the space is a complex manifold and the group is a discrete group.
Factor of automorphy
In mathematics, the notion of factor of automorphy arises fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20function | In mathematics, an algebraic function is a function that can be defined
as the root of an irreducible polynomial equation. Quite often algebraic functions are algebraic expressions using a finite number of terms, involving only the algebraic operations addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and raising to a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subfield | Subfield may refer to:
an area of research and study within an academic discipline
Field extension, used in field theory (mathematics)
a Division (heraldry)
a division in MARC standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian%20surface | In mathematics, an abelian surface is a 2-dimensional abelian variety.
One-dimensional complex tori are just elliptic curves and are all algebraic, but Riemann discovered that most complex tori of dimension 2 are not algebraic via the Riemann bilinear relations. Essentially, these are conditions on the parameter space... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo%20Antinori | Vincenzo Antinori (1792–1865) was a science administrator in Italy.
From 1829 to 1859, Antinori was director of the Regal Museum of Physics and Natural History in Florence where he worked with Leopoldo Nobili on electromagnetic induction. He had originally attracted Nobili to Florence to teach physics, as he had Giova... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Saltzer | Jerome Howard "Jerry" Saltzer (born October 9, 1939) is an American computer scientist.
Career
Jerry Saltzer received an ScD in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1966. His dissertation 'Traffic Control in a Multiplexed System' was advised by Fernando Corbató. In 1966, he joined the faculty of the Department of Elect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Dennis | Jack Bonnell Dennis (born October 13, 1931) is a computer scientist and Emeritus Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The work of Dennis in computer systems and computer languages is recognized to have played a key role in hacker culture. As a Massachusetts Institute ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20M.%20Graham%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Robert M. Graham (1929 in Michigan, US – January 2, 2020) was a cybersecurity researcher computer scientist and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was born to a Scottish emigrant.
He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Michigan. Whil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadic | Monadic may refer to:
Monadic, a relation or function having an arity of one in logic, mathematics, and computer science
Monadic, an adjunction if and only if it is equivalent to the adjunction given by the Eilenberg–Moore algebras of its associated monad, in category theory
Monadic, in computer programming, a feat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Heath%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Michael Thomas Heath (born December 11, 1946) is a retired computer scientist who specializes in scientific computing. He is the director of the Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets, a Department of Energy-sponsored computing center at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and the former Fulton Watso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Donaldson | Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson (born 20 August 1957) is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds, Donaldson–Thomas theory, and his contributions to Kähler geometry. He is currently a permanent member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divided%20differences | In mathematics, divided differences is an algorithm, historically used for computing tables of logarithms and trigonometric functions. Charles Babbage's difference engine, an early mechanical calculator, was designed to use this algorithm in its operation.
Divided differences is a recursive division process. Given a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomial%20basis | In mathematics the monomial basis of a polynomial ring is its basis (as a vector space or free module over the field or ring of coefficients) that consists of all monomials. The monomials form a basis because every polynomial may be uniquely written as a finite linear combination of monomials (this is an immediate cons... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93Schmidt%20operator | In mathematics, a Hilbert–Schmidt operator, named after David Hilbert and Erhard Schmidt, is a bounded operator that acts on a Hilbert space and has finite Hilbert–Schmidt norm
where is an orthonormal basis. The index set need not be countable. However, the sum on the right must contain at most countably many non-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehead%20theorem | In homotopy theory (a branch of mathematics), the Whitehead theorem states that if a continuous mapping f between CW complexes X and Y induces isomorphisms on all homotopy groups, then f is a homotopy equivalence. This result was proved by J. H. C. Whitehead in two landmark papers from 1949, and provides a justificatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Spafford | Eugene Howard Spafford (born 1956), known as Spaf, is an American professor of computer science at Purdue University and a computer security expert.
Spafford serves as an advisor to U.S. government agencies and corporations. In 1998, he founded and was the first director of the Center for Education and Research in Inf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupola%20%28disambiguation%29 | A cupola is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building.
Cupola may also refer to:
Science, mathematics, and technology
Cupola (cave formation), a recess in the ceiling of a lava tube
Cupola (geology), a type of igneous rock intrusion
Cupola (geometry), a geometric solid
Cupola (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20loss | Information loss may refer to:
Data loss in information systems
lossy compression
Digital obsolescence
Black hole information paradox in theoretical physics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Medal | The Max Planck medal is the highest award of the German Physical Society , the world's largest organization of physicists, for extraordinary achievements in theoretical physics. The prize has been awarded annually since 1929, with few exceptions, and usually to a single person. The winner is awarded with a gold medal a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substituent | In organic chemistry, a substituent is one or a group of atoms that replaces (one or more) atoms, thereby becoming a moiety in the resultant (new) molecule. (In organic chemistry and biochemistry, the terms substituent and functional group, as well as side chain and pendant group, are used almost interchangeably to des... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Buss | Leo W. Buss (born 1953) is a retired Professor at Yale University's departments of geology, geophysics, and ecology and evolutionary biology.
Life
He graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D in 1979.
His evolutionary developmental biology book approaches the subject of the evolution of meta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated%20power%20function | In mathematics, the truncated power function with exponent is defined as
In particular,
and interpret the exponent as conventional power.
Relations
Truncated power functions can be used for construction of B-splines.
is the Heaviside function.
where is the indicator function.
Truncated power functions are re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-local%20ring | In mathematics, a semi-local ring is a ring for which R/J(R) is a semisimple ring, where J(R) is the Jacobson radical of R.
The above definition is satisfied if R has a finite number of maximal right ideals (and finite number of maximal left ideals). When R is a commutative ring, the converse implication is also tru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace%20Pert | Candace Beebe Pert (June 26, 1946 – September 12, 2013) was an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist who discovered the opioid receptor, the cellular binding site for endorphins in the brain.
Early life and education
She was born on June 26, 1946, in Manhattan, New York City.
She completed her undergraduate stud... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qux | Qux or variation, may refer to:
Yauyos–Chincha Quechua (ISO 639 language code: qux), a South American language
Quadra FNX Mining (stock ticker: QUAixX), a Canadian mining company
Qüxü County (geocode QUX), Tibet, China; see List of administrative divisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region
qux (computer science), a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerke%20%28crater%29 | Clerke is a tiny lunar impact crater named after Irish astronomer Agnes Mary Clerke, who played a role in bringing astronomy and astrophysics to the public in Victorian England. It is located near the eastern edge of Mare Serenitatis in the midst of a rille system named the Rimae Littrow after the crater Littrow to the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concepts%20of%20Modern%20Mathematics | Concepts of Modern Mathematics is a book by mathematician and science popularizer Ian Stewart about then-recent developments in mathematics. It was originally published by Penguin Books in 1975, updated in 1981, and reprinted by Dover publications in 1995 and 2015.
Overview
The book arose out of an extramural class th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittleness | A material is brittle if, when subjected to stress, it fractures with little elastic deformation and without significant plastic deformation. Brittle materials absorb relatively little energy prior to fracture, even those of high strength. Breaking is often accompanied by a sharp snapping sound.
When used in materials... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolving%20the%20Alien | Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life (published in the US, and UK second edition as What Does a Martian Look Like?: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life) is a 2002 popular science book about xenobiology by biologist Jack Cohen and mathematician Ian Stewart.
The concept for the book originated with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone%20%28bee%29 | A drone is a male honey bee. Unlike the female worker bee, a drone has no stinger. He does not gather nectar or pollen and cannot feed without assistance from worker bees. His only role is to mate with a maiden queen in nuptial flight.
Genetics
Drones carry only one type of allele at each chromosomal position, becaus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working%20range | Each instrument used in analytical chemistry has a useful working range. This is the range of concentration (or mass) that can be adequately determined by the instrument, where the instrument provides a useful signal that can be related to the concentration of the analyte.
All instruments have an upper and a lower wor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial%20group%20theory | In mathematics, combinatorial group theory is the theory of free groups, and the concept of a presentation of a group by generators and relations. It is much used in geometric topology, the fundamental group of a simplicial complex having in a natural and geometric way such a presentation.
A very closely related topic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%20species | In biology, a ring species is a connected series of neighbouring populations, each of which interbreeds with closely sited related populations, but for which there exist at least two "end populations" in the series, which are too distantly related to interbreed, though there is a potential gene flow between each "linke... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Greenstein | Barry Greenstein (born December 30, 1954, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American professional poker player and former mathematics postgraduate student. He has won a number of major events, including three at the World Series of Poker and two on the World Poker Tour. Greenstein donates his profit from tournament winnings ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley | Shockley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Dolores Cooper Shockley, American pharmacist
D. J. Shockley, American football player
William Shockley, winner of the Nobel Prize for physics
Fictional characters
Detective Ben Shockley, protagonist of the 1977 film The Gauntlet
See also
Shockley Semico... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20corn%20rootworm | The Western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera, is one of the most devastating corn rootworm species in North America, especially in the midwestern corn-growing areas such as Iowa. A related species, the Northern corn rootworm, D. barberi, co-inhabits in much of the range and is fairly similar in biology.
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selberg%20trace%20formula | In mathematics, the Selberg trace formula, introduced by , is an expression for the character of the unitary representation of a Lie group on the space of square-integrable functions, where is a cofinite discrete group. The character is given by the trace of certain functions on .
The simplest case is when is coc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehresmann%27s%20lemma | In mathematics, or specifically, in differential topology, Ehresmann's lemma or Ehresmann's fibration theorem states that if a smooth mapping , where and are smooth manifolds, is
a surjective submersion, and
a proper map (in particular, this condition is always satisfied if M is compact),
then it is a locally triv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L1 | L1, L01, L.1, L 1 or L-1 may refer to:
Mathematics, science and technology
Math
L1 distance in mathematics, used in taxicab geometry
L1, the space of Lebesgue integrable functions
ℓ1, the space of absolutely convergent sequences
Science
L1 family, a protein family of cell adhesion molecules
L1 (protein), a cel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20refinement | In mathematics, specifically in the study of topology and open covers of a topological space X, a star refinement is a particular kind of refinement of an open cover of X. A related concept is the notion of barycentric refinement.
Star refinements are used in the definition of fully normal space and in one definition... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing%20form | In mathematics, the Killing form, named after Wilhelm Killing, is a symmetric bilinear form that plays a basic role in the theories of Lie groups and Lie algebras. Cartan's criteria (criterion of solvability and criterion of semisimplicity) show that Killing form has a close relationship to the semisimplicity of the Li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqi%20ad-Din%20Muhammad%20ibn%20Ma%27ruf | Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ash-Shami al-Asadi (; ; 1526–1585) was an Ottoman polymath active in Cairo and Istanbul. He was the author of more than ninety books on a wide variety of subjects, including astronomy, clocks, engineering, mathematics, mechanics, optics and natural philosophy.
In 1574 the Ottoman Sult... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20coset | In group theory, a field of mathematics, a double coset is a collection of group elements which are equivalent under the symmetries coming from two subgroups. More precisely, let be a group, and let and be subgroups. Let act on by left multiplication and let act on by right multiplication. For each in , the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20of%20Physics%20Students | The Society of Physics Students (SPS) is a professional association with international participation, granting membership through college chapters with the only requirement that the student member be interested in physics. All college majors are welcome to join SPS, but the highest representation tends to come from ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20E.%20Trenberth | Kevin Edward Trenberth (born 8 November 1944) was part of the Climate Analysis Section at the US NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research. He was appointed Distinguished Scholar at NCAR in 2020. He is also an honorary faculty member in the Physics Department at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He was a le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20Bangalore | This is a list of notable people from Bangalore.
Founder and Architect of Bengaluru
Nada Prabhu Kempe Gowda
Scientists
C V Raman – Nobel Prize in Physics (1930), Bharat Ratna (1954)
M. Visvesvarayya – Bharat Ratna, in 1955, Indian civil engineer, statesman, Diwan of Mysore
C. N. R. Rao – Bharat Ratna (2014) Ind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%20the%20Bleep%20Do%20We%20Know%21%3F | What the Bleep Do We Know!? (stylized as What tнē #$*! D̄ө ωΣ (k)πow!? and What the #$*! Do We Know!?) is a 2004 American pseudo-scientific film that posits a spiritual connection between quantum physics and consciousness. The plot follows the fictional story of a photographer, using documentary-style interviews and co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fon | Fon or FON may refer to:
Terms
Fon (title), a traditional title for a ruler in Cameroon
Fiber-optic network
Freedom of navigation
The chemistry mnemonic "FON", used for determining which elements hydrogen forms hydrogen bonds with.
Fon language, spoken by the Fon people
Funding Opportunity Number, assigned by Un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed%20%28disambiguation%29 | sed is a Unix utility for processing text.
Sed or SED may also refer to:
Science and technology
Spectral energy distribution, of an astronomical source
Stochastic electrodynamics, in quantum mechanics
Sedirea (Sed.), a genus of orchids
Medicine
Selective eating disorder or avoidant/restrictive food intake disord... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keldysh%20Institute%20of%20Applied%20Mathematics | The Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics () is a research institute specializing in computational mathematics. It was established to solve computational tasks related to government programs of nuclear and fusion energy, space research and missile technology. The Institute is a part of the Department of Mathematical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steklov%20Institute%20of%20Mathematics | Steklov Institute of Mathematics or Steklov Mathematical Institute () is a premier research institute based in Moscow, specialized in mathematics, and a part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The institute is named after Vladimir Andreevich Steklov, who in 1919 founded the Institute of Physics and Mathematics in Len... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viva%20Las%20Vegas | Viva Las Vegas is a 1964 American musical film directed by George Sidney, choreographed by David Winters, and starring Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret. The film is regarded by fans and film critics as one of Presley's best films, and it is noted for the on-screen chemistry between Presley and Ann-Margret.
Viva Las Vegas... |
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