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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny%27s%20paradox | In biology, Denny's paradox refers to the apparent impossibility of surface-dwelling animals such as the water strider generating enough propulsive force to move. It is named after biologist Mark Denny, and relates to animal locomotion on the surface layer of water.
If capillary waves are assumed to generate the mome... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPRI | MPRI may refer to:
Military Professional Resources Inc., a private military contractor.
Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute, a proton therapy treatment center in Bloomington, Indiana.
Master Parisien de Recherche en Informatique, a French master course in theoretical computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic%20scattering | Elastic scattering is a form of particle scattering in scattering theory, nuclear physics and particle physics. In this process, the kinetic energy of a particle is conserved in the center-of-mass frame, but its direction of propagation is modified (by interaction with other particles and/or potentials) meaning the two... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff%20Jenkins%20%28climatologist%29 | Geoffrey (Geoff) Jenkins is a climatologist and former head of climate change prediction at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, part of the Met Office.
Career
Jenkins is a physics graduate from Southampton university; PhD in atmospheric physics. Thirty years at the Met Office.
In response to why he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%20Kopec | Daniel Kopec (February 28, 1954 – June 12, 2016) was an American chess International Master, author, and computer science professor at Brooklyn College.
Education
He graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1975. Kopec later received a PhD in Machine Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1982 studyi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20in%20Taiwan | The educational system in Taiwan is the responsibility of the Ministry of Education. The system produces pupils with some of the highest test scores in the world, especially in mathematics and science. Former president Ma Ying-jeou announced in January 2011 that the government would begin the phased implementation of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Institute%20of%20Chemistry | The Royal Institute of Chemistry was a British scientific organisation. Founded in 1877 as the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland (ICGBI), its role was to focus on qualifications and the professional status of chemists, and its aim was to ensure that consulting and analytical chemists were properly tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20for%20Analytical%20Chemistry | The Society of Public Analysts was formed in the United Kingdom in 1874 and subsequently became the Society for Analytical Chemistry. It was incorporated in 1907.
The chemical industry had grown rapidly in the 19th century, and developments in the alkali, explosive and agricultural chemical fields produced a growing n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation%20and%20evolution%20in%20public%20education | The status of creation and evolution in public education has been the subject of substantial debate and conflict in legal, political, and religious circles. Globally, there are a wide variety of views on the topic. Most western countries have legislation that mandates only evolutionary biology is to be taught in the ap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matched%20filter | In signal processing, a matched filter is obtained by correlating a known delayed signal, or template, with an unknown signal to detect the presence of the template in the unknown signal. This is equivalent to convolving the unknown signal with a conjugated time-reversed version of the template. The matched filter is t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate%20variables | Conjugate variables are pairs of variables mathematically defined in such a way that they become Fourier transform duals, or more generally are related through Pontryagin duality. The duality relations lead naturally to an uncertainty relation—in physics called the Heisenberg uncertainty principle—between them. In math... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguity%20function | In pulsed radar and sonar signal processing, an ambiguity function is a two-dimensional function of propagation delay and Doppler frequency , . It represents the distortion of a returned pulse due to the receiver matched filter (commonly, but not exclusively, used in pulse compression radar) of the return from a movin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/167%20%28number%29 | 167 (one hundred [and] sixty-seven) is the natural number following 166 and preceding 168.
In mathematics
167 is an emirp, an isolated prime, a Chen prime, a Gaussian prime, a safe prime, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and a real part of the form .
167 is the smallest number which requires six terms w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20College%20Program | The Western College Program was created in 1974 when the Western College for Women merged with Miami University. The program consisted of an interdisciplinary living/learning community with small class sizes and student-designed focuses. Majors included Interdisciplinary Studies, Environmental Science, and Environmenta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam%20Elkies | Noam David Elkies (born August 25, 1966) is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University. At the age of 26, he became the youngest professor to receive tenure at Harvard. He is also a pianist, chess national master and a chess composer.
Early life
Elkies was born to an engineer father and a piano teacher mother. H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20semantic%20graph | In computer science, an abstract semantic graph (ASG) or term graph is a form of abstract syntax in which an expression of a formal or programming language is represented by a graph whose vertices are the expression's subterms. An ASG is at a higher level of abstraction than an abstract syntax tree (or AST), which is u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambia%20%28non-profit%20organization%29 | Cambia is an Australian-based global non-profit social enterprise focusing on open science, biology, innovation system reform and intellectual property. Its projects include The Lens, formerly known as Patent Lens, and the Biological Innovation for Open Society Initiative.
Cambia derives its name from the Spanish ver... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf%20Hamied%201702%20Professor%20of%20Chemistry | The Yusuf Hamied 1702 Chair of Chemistry is one of the senior professorships at the University of Cambridge, based in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.
History
Founded in 1702 by the university as simply 'Professor of Chemistry', it was retitled as the Professorship of Organic Chemistry in 1943, and in 1991 wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%20of%20Mathematics | A Bachelor of Mathematics (abbreviated B.Math or BMath) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for successfully completing a program of study in mathematics or related disciplines, such as applied mathematics, actuarial science, computational science, data analytics, financial mathematics, mathematical physics, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20multiplication%20of%20abelian%20varieties | In mathematics, an abelian variety A defined over a field K is said to have CM-type if it has a large enough commutative subring in its endomorphism ring End(A). The terminology here is from complex multiplication theory, which was developed for elliptic curves in the nineteenth century. One of the major achievements i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Cornforth | Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr., (7 September 1917 – 8 December 2013) was an AustralianBritish chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions, becoming the only Nobel laureate born in New South Wales.
Cornforth investigated enzymes that catalyse ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20field%20theory | In molecular physics, crystal field theory (CFT) describes the breaking of degeneracies of electron orbital states, usually d or f orbitals, due to a static electric field produced by a surrounding charge distribution (anion neighbors). This theory has been used to describe various spectroscopies of transition metal co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCET | WCET may refer to:
Worst-case execution time, a computer science term
WCET (TV), a PBS station serving the Cincinnati area
Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies Certification, an IEEE certification regarding wireless technologies
Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/512%20%28number%29 | 512 (five hundred [and] twelve) is the natural number following 511 and preceding 513.
In mathematics
512 is a power of two: 29 (2 to the 9th power) and the cube of 8: 83.
It is the eleventh Leyland number.
It is also the third Dudeney number.
It is a self number in base 12.
It is a harshad number in decimal.
It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian%20integral | In mathematics, an abelian integral, named after the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel, is an integral in the complex plane of the form
where is an arbitrary rational function of the two variables and , which are related by the equation
where is an irreducible polynomial in ,
whose coefficients , are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20of%20the%20first%20kind | In mathematics, differential of the first kind is a traditional term used in the theories of Riemann surfaces (more generally, complex manifolds) and algebraic curves (more generally, algebraic varieties), for everywhere-regular differential 1-forms. Given a complex manifold M, a differential of the first kind ω is the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%2C5-Dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine | 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine (DOI) is a psychedelic drug and a substituted amphetamine. Unlike many other substituted amphetamines, however, it is not primarily a stimulant. DOI has a stereocenter and R-(−)-DOI is the more active stereoisomer. In neuroscience research, [125I]-R-(−)-DOI is used as a radioligand and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruhat%20decomposition | In mathematics, the Bruhat decomposition (introduced by François Bruhat for classical groups and by Claude Chevalley in general) G = BWB of certain algebraic groups G into cells can be regarded as a general expression of the principle of Gauss–Jordan elimination, which generically writes a matrix as a product of an up... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartan%20decomposition | In mathematics, the Cartan decomposition is a decomposition of a semisimple Lie group or Lie algebra, which plays an important role in their structure theory and representation theory. It generalizes the polar decomposition or singular value decomposition of matrices. Its history can be traced to the 1880s work of Él... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwasawa%20decomposition | In mathematics, the Iwasawa decomposition (aka KAN from its expression) of a semisimple Lie group generalises the way a square real matrix can be written as a product of an orthogonal matrix and an upper triangular matrix (QR decomposition, a consequence of Gram–Schmidt orthogonalization). It is named after Kenkichi Iw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%20angle | In geometry, hyperbolic angle is a real number determined by the area of the corresponding hyperbolic sector of xy = 1 in Quadrant I of the Cartesian plane. The hyperbolic angle parametrises the unit hyperbola, which has hyperbolic functions as coordinates. In mathematics, hyperbolic angle is an invariant measure as it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tridilosa | Tridilosa is a very light and resistant, materials-efficient 3-D structure, made from steel and concrete and widely used in civil engineering. Tridilosa was invented by the Mexican engineer Heberto Castillo.
Among the most remarkable features of this structure is that it can save up to 66% on concrete usage and up to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member | Member may refer to:
Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon
Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set
In object-oriented programming, a member of a class
Field (computer science), entries in a database
Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific obj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racks%20and%20quandles | In mathematics, racks and quandles are sets with binary operations satisfying axioms analogous to the Reidemeister moves used to manipulate knot diagrams.
While mainly used to obtain invariants of knots, they can be viewed as algebraic constructions in their own right. In particular, the definition of a quandle axiom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegel%20upper%20half-space | In mathematics, the Siegel upper half-space of degree g (or genus g) (also called the Siegel upper half-plane) is the set of g × g symmetric matrices over the complex numbers whose imaginary part is positive definite. It was introduced by . It is the symmetric space associated to the symplectic group .
The Siegel uppe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Farnsworth | Arthur L. Farnsworth (born 1962) is an American politician and convicted tax protester. Evidence found by the government in Farnsworth's case helped the government indict actor Wesley Snipes on tax charges.
Farnsworth received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Widener University and a master's degre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Genome%20Diversity%20Project | The Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) was started by Stanford University's Morrison Institute in 1990s along with collaboration of scientists around the world. It is the result of many years of work by Luigi Cavalli-Sforza, one of the most cited scientists in the world, who has published extensively in the use of g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K1 | K1, K.I, K01, K 1 or K-1 can refer to:
Geography
K1, another name for Masherbrum, a mountain in the Karakoram range in Pakistan
K1, a small town to north of Kirkuk city, Iraq
K1 (building), a high-rise building in Kraków, Poland
Mathematics
denotes the first algebraic K-theory group of a ring .
Military
Dene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Age%20of%20Intelligent%20Machines | The Age of Intelligent Machines is a non-fiction book about artificial intelligence by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil. This was his first book and the Association of American Publishers named it the Most Outstanding Computer Science Book of 1990. It was reviewed in The New York Times and The Christian Science Monit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FROG | In cryptography, FROG is a block cipher authored by
Georgoudis, Leroux and Chaves. The algorithm can work with any block size between 8 and 128 bytes, and supports key sizes between 5 and 125 bytes. The algorithm consists of 8 rounds and has a very complicated key schedule.
It was submitted in 1998 by TecApro, a Cos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdetermined | Overdetermined may refer to:
Overdetermined systems in various branches of mathematics
Overdetermination in various fields of psychology or analytical thought |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical%20initiator | In chemistry, radical initiators are substances that can produce radical species under mild conditions and promote radical reactions. These substances generally possess weak bonds—bonds that have small bond dissociation energies. Radical initiators are utilized in industrial processes such as polymer synthesis. Typical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Borwein | Jonathan Michael Borwein (20 May 1951 – 2 August 2016) was a Scottish mathematician who held an appointment as Laureate Professor of mathematics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He was a close associate of David H. Bailey, and they have been prominent public advocates of experimental mathematics.
Borwein's i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow%20Engineering%20Physics%20Institute | National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) () is a public technical university in Moscow, Russia. It was founded in 1942 as the Moscow Mechanical Institute of Munitions, but was soon renamed the Moscow Mechanical Institute. Its original mission was to train skilled personnel for t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIBO%20stability | In signal processing, specifically control theory, bounded-input, bounded-output (BIBO) stability is a form of stability for signals and systems that take inputs. If a system is BIBO stable, then the output will be bounded for every input to the system that is bounded.
A signal is bounded if there is a finite value s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20codes | In computer science, online codes are an example of rateless erasure codes. These codes can encode a message into a number of symbols such that knowledge of any fraction of them allows one to recover the original message (with high probability). Rateless codes produce an arbitrarily large number of symbols which can be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Peebles%20%26%20Co.%20Ltd. | Bruce Peebles & Co. Ltd. was an Edinburgh industrial electrical engineering company.
Early history
The company was founded as D. Bruce Peebles & Co. by Scottish engineer David Bruce Peebles (1826–1899) in Edinburgh in 1866. The company initially specialised in gas engineering but later expanded to include electrical e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pairing%20function | In mathematics, a pairing function is a process to uniquely encode two natural numbers into a single natural number.
Any pairing function can be used in set theory to prove that integers and rational numbers have the same cardinality as natural numbers.
Definition
A pairing function is a bijection
More generally, a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas%E2%80%93Carmichael%20number | In mathematics, a Lucas–Carmichael number is a positive composite integer n such that
if p is a prime factor of n, then p + 1 is a factor of n + 1;
n is odd and square-free.
The first condition resembles the Korselt's criterion for Carmichael numbers, where -1 is replaced with +1. The second condition eliminates from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20quantization | In mathematical physics, geometric quantization is a mathematical approach to defining a quantum theory corresponding to a given classical theory. It attempts to carry out quantization, for which there is in general no exact recipe, in such a way that certain analogies between the classical theory and the quantum theor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kac%E2%80%93Moody%20algebra | In mathematics, a Kac–Moody algebra (named for Victor Kac and Robert Moody, who independently and simultaneously discovered them in 1968) is a Lie algebra, usually infinite-dimensional, that can be defined by generators and relations through a generalized Cartan matrix. These algebras form a generalization of finite-di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogoliubov%20transformation | In theoretical physics, the Bogoliubov transformation, also known as the Bogoliubov–Valatin transformation, was independently developed in 1958 by Nikolay Bogolyubov and John George Valatin for finding solutions of BCS theory in a homogeneous system. The Bogoliubov transformation is an isomorphism of either the canonic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartan%20matrix | In mathematics, the term Cartan matrix has three meanings. All of these are named after the French mathematician Élie Cartan. Amusingly, the Cartan matrices in the context of Lie algebras were first investigated by Wilhelm Killing, whereas the Killing form is due to Cartan.
Lie algebras
A (symmetrizable) generalize... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary%20compound | In inorganic chemistry and materials chemistry, a ternary compound or ternary phase is a chemical compound containing three different elements.
While some ternary compounds are molecular, e.g. chloroform (), more typically ternary phases refer to extended solids. Famous example are the perovskites.
Binary phases, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Wallace%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Christopher Stewart Wallace (26 October 1933 – 7 August 2004) was an Australian computer scientist and physicist.
Wallace is notable for having devised:
The minimum message length principle — an information-theoretic principle in statistics, econometrics, machine learning, inductive inference and knowledge discovery ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CWP | CWP may refer to:
Cable & Wireless plc (stock symbol on the New York Stock Exchange)
Cakewalk Project, a Cakewalk Sonar sequencing software project file
Camp White Pine
Causeway Point
Centralized Warning Panel (see Annunciator panel)
Chinese Wikipedia
Chronic Widespread Pain (see Fibromyalgia#Genetics)
Coaliti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genny%20Smith | Genny Smith (1922 - March 4, 2018) was a publisher and editor of guidebooks about the Eastern Sierra Nevada and the Owens Valley of California, United States. Her writings about the history, geology and biology of the region had caused her to be dubbed "the Naturalist Queen of the Eastern Sierra".
Starting in 1958, Sm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOOMERanG%20experiment | In astronomy and observational cosmology, the BOOMERanG experiment (Balloon Observations Of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation And Geophysics) was an experiment which measured the cosmic microwave background radiation of a part of the sky during three sub-orbital (high-altitude) balloon flights. It was the first exper... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lami%27s%20theorem | In physics, Lami's theorem is an equation relating the magnitudes of three coplanar, concurrent and non-collinear vectors, which keeps an object in static equilibrium, with the angles directly opposite to the corresponding vectors. According to the theorem,
where A, B and C are the magnitudes of the three coplanar, c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grouping | Grouping generally refers to the creation of one or more groups, or to the groups themselves.
More specifically, grouping may refer to:
Shot grouping in shooting sports and other uses of firearms
the use of symbols of grouping in mathematics (parentheses, etc.)
the creation of social groups
See also
Categor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry%20in%20biology | Symmetry in biology refers to the symmetry observed in organisms, including plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria. External symmetry can be easily seen by just looking at an organism. For example, the face of a human being has a plane of symmetry down its centre, or a pine cone displays a clear symmetrical spiral patter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endonuclease | In molecular biology, endonucleases are enzymes that cleave the phosphodiester bond within a polynucleotide chain (namely DNA or RNA). Some, such as deoxyribonuclease I, cut DNA relatively nonspecifically (without regard to sequence), while many, typically called restriction endonucleases or restriction enzymes, cleave... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range%20fractionation | Range fractionation is a term used in biology to describe the way by which a group of sensory neurons are able to encode varying magnitudes of a stimulus. Sense organs are usually composed of many sensory receptors measuring the same property. These sensory receptors show a limited degree of precision due to an upper l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociobiology%3A%20The%20New%20Synthesis | Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975; 25th anniversary edition 2000) is a book by the biologist E. O. Wilson. It helped start the sociobiology debate, one of the great scientific controversies in biology of the 20th century and part of the wider debate about evolutionary psychology and the modern synthesis of evolutio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKC | PKC may refer to:
Paroxysmal kinesogenic choreoathetosis, a neurological disorder
Protein kinase C, a family of enzymes
Public-key cryptography, a cryptographic system using pairs of keys
PKC (conference)
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport or Yelizovo Airport, Kamchatka Krai, Russia (IATA code PKC)
PKC Group, a Finnis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1591%20in%20science | The year 1591 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Mathematics
François Viète publishes In Artem Analyticien Isagoge, introducing the new algebra with innovative use of letters as parameters in equations.
Giordano Bruno publishes and in Francfort.
Technology
The Rialto B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othenio%20Abel | Othenio Lothar Franz Anton Louis Abel (June 20, 1875 – July 4, 1946) was an Austrian paleontologist and evolutionary biologist. Together with Louis Dollo, he was the founder of "paleobiology" and studied the life and environment of fossilized organisms.
Life
Abel was born in Vienna, the son of the architect Lothar Ab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20Abetti | Antonio Abetti (19 June 1846 – 20 February 1928) was an Italian astronomer.
Born in San Pietro di Gorizia (Šempeter-Vrtojba), he earned a degree in mathematics and engineering at the University of Padua. He was married to Giovanna Colbachini in 1879 and they had two sons. He died in Arcetri.
Work
Abetti mainly worke... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homology%20%28anthropology%29 | In sociocultural anthropology and archaeology, homology is a type of analogy whereby two human beliefs, practices, or artifacts are separated by time and/or place but share similarities due to some underlying factor, whether genetics, historical connection, psychological archetype, or otherwise. This type of homology i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise%20Faustman | Denise Louise Faustman (born 1958) is an American physician and medical researcher. An associate professor of medicine at Harvard University and director of the Immunobiology Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, her work specializes in diabetes mellitus type 1 (formerly called juvenile diabetes) and other auto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoarchaeology | Geoarchaeology is a multi-disciplinary approach which uses the techniques and subject matter of geography, geology, geophysics and other Earth sciences to examine topics which inform archaeological knowledge and thought. Geoarchaeologists study the natural physical processes that affect archaeological sites such as geo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Edgington | Dorothy Margaret Doig Edgington FBA (née Milne, born 29 April 1941) is a philosopher active in metaphysics and philosophical logic. She is particularly known for her work on the logic of conditionals and vagueness.
Life and education
Dorothy Edgington was born on 29 April 1941 to Edward Milne and his wife Rhoda née B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20space | Memory space can refer to:
Memory space (computational resource), a computer science/information theory concept related to computational resources
Memory space (social science), a sociological concept related to collective memory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie%20Parsons | Ernie Parsons (born June 5, 1946) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Prince Edward—Hastings for the Ontario Liberal Party from 1999 to 2007. In 2007 he was appointed as a Justice of the Peace.
Background
Parsons received a Civil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauke%20Harder | Hauke Harder (born 1963 in Heide (Holstein), Germany) is a German composer and experimental physicist.
Life
Harder received a PhD in chemistry, and works at the Institute for Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
In 1989, he studied with Wolfgang von Schweinitz, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universalizability | The concept of universalizability was set out by the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant as part of his work Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. It is part of the first formulation of his categorical imperative, which states that the only morally acceptable maxims of our actions are those that could rati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/157%20%28number%29 | 157 (one hundred [and] fifty-seven) is the number following 156 and preceding 158.
In mathematics
157 is:
the 37th prime number. The next prime is 163 and the previous prime is 151.
a balanced prime, because the arithmetic mean of those primes yields 157.
an emirp.
a Chen prime.
the largest known prime p which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega%20Man%20Battle%20Network | is a tactical role-playing video game series created by Masahiro Yasuma and developed and published by Capcom as a spin-off of the Mega Man series; it premiered in 2001 on the Game Boy Advance and takes place in an alternate continuity where computers and networking technology was the main focus on scientific advanceme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson%20Perrins%20Laboratory | The Dyson Perrins Laboratory is in the science area of the University of Oxford and was the main centre for research into organic chemistry of the University from its foundation in 1916 until its closure as a research laboratory in 2003. Until 2018, parts of the building were used as teaching laboratories in which und... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20series%20solution%20of%20differential%20equations | In mathematics, the power series method is used to seek a power series solution to certain differential equations. In general, such a solution assumes a power series with unknown coefficients, then substitutes that solution into the differential equation to find a recurrence relation for the coefficients.
Method
Cons... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thue%20equation | In mathematics, a Thue equation is a Diophantine equation of the form
ƒ(x,y) = r,
where ƒ is an irreducible bivariate form of degree at least 3 over the rational numbers, and r is a nonzero rational number. It is named after Axel Thue, who in 1909 proved that a Thue equation can have only finitely many solutions in i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20in%20computer%20science | Logic in computer science covers the overlap between the field of logic and that of computer science. The topic can essentially be divided into three main areas:
Theoretical foundations and analysis
Use of computer technology to aid logicians
Use of concepts from logic for computer applications
Theoretical foundati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-minimum%20spanning%20tree | The -minimum spanning tree problem, studied in theoretical computer science, asks for a tree of minimum cost that has exactly vertices and forms a subgraph of a larger graph. It is also called the -MST or edge-weighted -cardinality tree. Finding this tree is NP-hard, but it can be approximated to within a constant app... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20Genealogy%20Project | The Mathematics Genealogy Project (MGP) is a web-based database for the academic genealogy of mathematicians. it contained information on 274,575 mathematical scientists who contributed to research-level mathematics. For a typical mathematician, the project entry includes graduation year, thesis title (in its Mathemat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Smith%20%28teacher%29 | William Macdonald Smith (born 25 June 1939) is a South African science and mathematics teacher who is best known for his maths and science lessons on television. Born in Makhanda (Grahamstown), he is the son of the ichthyologist Margaret Mary Smith and Professor J. L. B. Smith, the renowned chemist and ichthyologist wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side%20chain | In organic chemistry and biochemistry, a side chain is a chemical group that is attached to a core part of the molecule called the "main chain" or backbone. The side chain is a hydrocarbon branching element of a molecule that is attached to a larger hydrocarbon backbone. It is one factor in determining a molecule's pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsumption | Subsumption may refer to:
A minor premise in symbolic logic (see syllogism)
The Liskov substitution principle in object-oriented programming
Subtyping in programming language theory
Subsumption architecture in robotics
A subsumption relation in category theory, semantic networks and linguistics, also known as a "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UA1%20experiment | The UA1 experiment (an abbreviation of Underground Area 1) was a high-energy physics experiment that ran at CERN's Proton-Antiproton Collider (SpS), a modification of the one-beam Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). The data was recorded between 1981 and 1990. The joint discovery of the W and Z bosons by this experiment an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMD | BMD may refer to:
Organisations
Bangladesh Meteorological Department
BMD Group, an Australian civil engineering company
Botswana Movement for Democracy, a minor right-wing populist opposition party in Botswana
Civil registration or General Register Office (from Births, Marriages and Deaths)
FreeBMD, a website for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEK | , known as KEK, is a Japanese organization whose purpose is to operate the largest particle physics laboratory in Japan, situated in Tsukuba, Ibaraki prefecture. It was established in 1997. The term "KEK" is also used to refer to the laboratory itself, which employs approximately 695 employees. KEK's main function is t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad%20Motamedi | Seyyed Ahmad Motamedi (; born 1953 in Tehran) is an Iranian politician & member of Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)'s Electrical Engineering faculty.
He was the chancellor of Amirkabir University of Technology from June 2014 to September 2021. He was the Iranian Minister of Communication and Inf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graded%20vector%20space | In mathematics, a graded vector space is a vector space that has the extra structure of a grading or gradation, which is a decomposition of the vector space into a direct sum of vector subspaces, generally indexed by the integers.
For "pure" vector spaces, the concept has been introduced in homological algebra, and it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubling | Doubling may refer to:
Mathematics
Arithmetical doubling of a count or a measure, expressed as:
Multiplication by 2
Increase by 100%, i.e. one-hundred percent
Doubling the cube (i. e., hypothetical geometric construction of a cube with twice the volume of a given cube)
Doubling time, the length of time required... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Brent | Richard Brent may refer to:
Richard Brent (politician) (1757–1814), U.S. Congressman and senator from Virginia
Richard P. Brent (born 1946), Australian mathematician and computer science professor
See also
R. Brent Tully (born 1943), Canadian-born American astronomer based in Hawaii |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz%20equation | In mathematics, the Helmholtz equation is the eigenvalue problem for the Laplace operator. It corresponds to the linear partial differential equation
where is the Laplace operator, is the eigenvalue, and is the (eigen)function. When the equation is applied to waves, is known as the wave number. The Helmholtz equat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Berliner | Hans Jack Berliner (January 27, 1929 – January 13, 2017) was an American chess player, and was the World Correspondence Chess Champion, from 1965–1968. He was a Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess. Berliner was a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He directed the construction of the chess comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Council%20on%20Science%20and%20Health | The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) is a pro-industry advocacy organization founded in 1978 by Elizabeth Whelan with support from the Scaife Foundation and John M. Olin Foundation. ACSH's publications focus on industry advocacy related to food, nutrition, health, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biology, biote... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilakantha%20Somayaji | Keļallur Nilakantha Somayaji (14 June 1444 – 1545), also referred to as Keļallur Comatiri, was a major mathematician and astronomer of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. One of his most influential works was the comprehensive astronomical treatise Tantrasamgraha completed in 1501. He had also composed an e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narayana%20Pandita%20%28mathematician%29 | Nārāyaṇa Paṇḍita () (1340–1400) was an Indian mathematician. Plofker writes that his texts were the most significant Sanskrit mathematics treatises after those of Bhaskara II, other than the Kerala school. He wrote the Ganita Kaumudi (lit "Moonlight of mathematics") in 1356 about mathematical operations. The work antic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetanic%20stimulation | In neurobiology, a tetanic stimulation consists of a high-frequency sequence of individual stimulations of a neuron. It is associated with potentiation.
High-frequency stimulation causes an increase in release called post-tetanic potentiation (Kandel 2003). This presynaptic event is caused by calcium influx. Calcium-p... |
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