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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antide%20Janvier
Antide Janvier (1 July 1751 – 23 September 1835) was a French clockmaker. Life Antide Janvier was born in a village in the Jura, and learned the basics of his trade from his father, and was educated in Latin, Greek, mathematics and astronomy by a local abbé. At age 15 he built an astronomical sphere which he presented...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodville%20Latham
Major Woodville Latham (1837–1911) was an ordnance officer of the Confederacy during the American Civil War and professor of chemistry at West Virginia University. He was significant in the development of early film technology. Woodville Latham was the father of Grey Latham and Otway Latham, owners of a kinetoscope pa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshio%20Mura
was a professor of engineering. He was born in Ono, a small port village of Kanazawa Japan, on December 7, 1925. He received a doctorate in the Department of Applied Mathematics of the University of Tokyo in 1954. He taught at Meiji University, Japan from 1954 to 1958. In 1958, he went to the United States to work ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolfo%20Llin%C3%A1s
Rodolfo Llinás Riascos (born 16 December 1934) is a Colombian and American neuroscientist. He is currently the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Physiology & Neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine. Llinás has published over 800 scientific articles. Early...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous%20catalysis
In chemistry, homogeneous catalysis is catalysis where the catalyst is in same phase as reactants, principally by a soluble catalyst a in solution. In contrast, heterogeneous catalysis describes processes where the catalysts and substrate are in distinct phases, typically solid-gas, respectively. The term is used almos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision%20theory
Collision theory is a principle of chemistry used to predict the rates of chemical reactions. It states that when suitable particles of the reactant hit each other with the correct orientation, only a certain amount of collisions result in a perceptible or notable change; these successful changes are called successful...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEI
MEI may refer to: Education MEI Academy, an international school Mathematics in Education and Industry, an examination board affiliated with the OCR examination board Mennonite Educational Institute, an independent grades K-12 school in Abbotsford, British Columbia Businesses MEI (company), manufacturer of cash...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterochrony
In evolutionary developmental biology, heterochrony is any genetically controlled difference in the timing, rate, or duration of a developmental process in an organism compared to its ancestors or other organisms. This leads to changes in the size, shape, characteristics and even presence of certain organs and features...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol%20red
Phenol red (also known as phenolsulfonphthalein or PSP) is a pH indicator frequently used in cell biology laboratories. Chemical structure and properties Phenol red exists as a red crystal that is stable in air. Its solubility is 0.77 grams per liter (g/L) in water and 2.9 g/L in ethanol. It is a weak acid with pKa = ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Schoolmaster%27s%20Assistant%2C%20Being%20a%20Compendium%20of%20Arithmetic%20Both%20Practical%20and%20Theoretical
The Schoolmaster's Assistant, Being a Compendium of Arithmetic both Practical and Theoretical was an early and popular English arithmetic textbook, written by Thomas Dilworth and first published in England in 1743. An American edition was published in 1769; by 1786 it had reached 23 editions, and through 1800 it was th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okazaki
Okazaki may refer to: Okazaki (surname) Okazaki, Aichi, a city in Japan Okazaki Castle, a castle in Japan Okazaki fragments, DNA fragments formed during DNA replication (biology) See also Okasaki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preon
In particle physics, preons are hypothetical point particles, conceived of as sub-components of quarks and leptons. The word was coined by Jogesh Pati and Abdus Salam, in 1974. Interest in preon models peaked in the 1980s but has slowed, as the Standard Model of particle physics continues to describe physics mostly suc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FANUC
FANUC ( or ; often styled Fanuc) is a Japanese group of companies that provide automation products and services such as robotics and computer numerical control wireless systems. These companies are principally of Japan, Fanuc America Corporation of Rochester Hills, Michigan, USA, and FANUC Europe Corporation S.A. of L...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolon
In biology, stolons (from Latin stolō, genitive stolōnis – "branch"), also known as runners, are horizontal connections between parts of an organism. They may be part of the organism, or of its skeleton. Typically, animal stolons are exoskeletons (external skeletons). In botany In botany, stolons are plant stems which...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential%20theory
In mathematics and mathematical physics, potential theory is the study of harmonic functions. The term "potential theory" was coined in 19th-century physics when it was realized that two fundamental forces of nature known at the time, namely gravity and the electrostatic force, could be modeled using functions called ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20Abrasion%20Tool
The Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) is a grinding and brushing installation on NASA’s twin Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit (MER-A) and Opportunity (MER-B), which landed on Mars in January 2004. It was designed, developed and continues to be operated by Honeybee Robotics LTD, a developer of specialized robots, automated techno...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20B.%20Leighton
Robert Benjamin Leighton (; September 10, 1919 – March 9, 1997) was a prominent American experimental physicist who spent his professional career at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). His work over the years spanned solid state physics, cosmic ray physics, the beginnings of modern particle physics, solar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Benacerraf
Paul Joseph Salomon Benacerraf (; born 26 March 1931) is a French-born American philosopher working in the field of the philosophy of mathematics who taught at Princeton University his entire career, from 1960 until his retirement in 2007. He was appointed Stuart Professor of Philosophy in 1974, and retired as the Jam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarz%20lemma
In mathematics, the Schwarz lemma, named after Hermann Amandus Schwarz, is a result in complex analysis about holomorphic functions from the open unit disk to itself. The lemma is less celebrated than deeper theorems, such as the Riemann mapping theorem, which it helps to prove. It is, however, one of the simplest resu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20D.%20Kim
Nicholas D. Kim is an analytical environmental chemist and cartoonist who currently works as a senior lecturer in applied environmental chemistry, School of Public health, College of Health for Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. As a cartoonist he is known under his pseudonym Nick. He specializes in environm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodgkin
Hodgkin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914–1998), British physiologist and biophysicist Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994), British chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964, wife of Thomas Lionel Hodgkin Douglas Hodgkin, American political scientist and author ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoregressive%20model
In statistics, econometrics, and signal processing, an autoregressive (AR) model is a representation of a type of random process; as such, it is used to describe certain time-varying processes in nature, economics, behavior, etc. The autoregressive model specifies that the output variable depends linearly on its own pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typesafe
Typesafe may refer to: Type safety, a concept in computer science, in which a programming language discourages or prevents type errors Typesafe Inc. (renamed to Lightbend), a company founded by Martin Odersky and the creators of the Scala programming language and Akka middleware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSN
The initials RSN may refer to: "Real Soon Now" Regional sports network Renal Support Network Republic of Singapore Navy Resort Sports Network Robust Security Network in IEEE 802.11i-2004 (WPA2) Royal School of Needlework Royal Saudi Navy RSN Racing & Sport RSn may refer to: Organotin chemistry and related compounds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELT
ELT may refer to: Education English language teaching Expanded learning time, an American education strategy Kolb's experiential learning theory Mathematics and science Ending lamination theorem Extremely large telescope, a type of telescope Extremely Large Telescope, an astronomical observatory under constru...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugeniusz%20Kwiatkowski
Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski (30 December 1888, Kraków – 22 August 1974, Kraków) was a Polish politician and economist, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, government minister and manager of the Second Polish Republic. Biography He studied at the prestigious Jesuit college in Chyrów, and then graduated chemistry at the Univers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20point
In the field of fluid dynamics the point at which the boundary layer changes from laminar to turbulent is called the transition point. Where and how this transition occurs depends on the Reynolds number, the pressure gradient, pressure fluctuations due to sound, surface vibration, the initial turbulence level of the f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleotide%20diversity
Nucleotide diversity is a concept in molecular genetics which is used to measure the degree of polymorphism within a population. One commonly used measure of nucleotide diversity was first introduced by Nei and Li in 1979. This measure is defined as the average number of nucleotide differences per site between two DNA...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voigt%20notation
In mathematics, Voigt notation or Voigt form in multilinear algebra is a way to represent a symmetric tensor by reducing its order. There are a few variants and associated names for this idea: Mandel notation, Mandel–Voigt notation and Nye notation are others found. Kelvin notation is a revival by Helbig of old ideas o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiding%20center
In physics, the motion of an electrically charged particle such as an electron or ion in a plasma in a magnetic field can be treated as the superposition of a relatively fast circular motion around a point called the guiding center and a relatively slow drift of this point. The drift speeds may differ for various speci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime
Slime may refer to: Biology Slime coat, the coating of mucus covering the body of all fish Slime mold, a broad term often referring to roughly six groups of Eukaryotes Biofilm, an aggregate of microorganisms in which cells adhere to each other and/or to a surface Slimy (fish), also known as the ponyfish Snail sl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity-addition%20formula
In relativistic physics, a velocity-addition formula is an equation that specifies how to combine the velocities of objects in a way that is consistent with the requirement that no object's speed can exceed the speed of light. Such formulas apply to successive Lorentz transformations, so they also relate different fram...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Hall%20%28programmer%29
Jon "maddog" Hall (born 7 August 1950) is the board chair for the Linux Professional Institute. Career The nickname "maddog" was given to him by his students at Hartford State Technical College, where he was the Department Head of Computer Science. He now prefers to be called by this name. According to Hall, his nick...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree%20of%20curvature
Degree of curve or degree of curvature is a measure of curvature of a circular arc used in civil engineering for its easy use in layout surveying. Definition The degree of curvature is defined as the central angle to the ends of an agreed length of either an arc or a chord; various lengths are commonly used in differe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/134%20%28number%29
134 (one hundred [and] thirty-four) is the natural number following 133 and preceding 135. In mathematics 134 is a nontotient since there is no integer with exactly 134 coprimes below it. And it is a noncototient since there is no integer with 134 integers with common factors below it. 134 is . In Roman numerals, 13...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saha%20ionization%20equation
In physics, the Saha ionization equation is an expression that relates the ionization state of a gas in thermal equilibrium to the temperature and pressure. The equation is a result of combining ideas of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics and is used to explain the spectral classification of stars. The express...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Ruse
Michael Ruse (born 21 June 1940) is a British-born Canadian philosopher of science who specializes in the philosophy of biology and works on the relationship between science and religion, the creation–evolution controversy, and the demarcation problem within science. Ruse currently teaches at Florida State University....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creaming
Creaming may refer to: Creaming (chemistry), a process of separation of an emulsion Creaming (food), several different culinary processes See also Cream (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric%20polynomial
In mathematics, a symmetric polynomial is a polynomial in variables, such that if any of the variables are interchanged, one obtains the same polynomial. Formally, is a symmetric polynomial if for any permutation of the subscripts one has . Symmetric polynomials arise naturally in the study of the relation betwee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEP
IEP may refer to: Science and technology Immunoelectrophoresis, biochemistry method Inclusion–exclusion principle, in the mathematics branch of combinatorics Integrated electric propulsion, in marine propulsion Isoelectric point, the pH where a molecule is electrically neutral Education and research Individ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Absent-Minded%20Professor
The Absent-Minded Professor is a 1961 American science fiction comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney Productions. It is based on the 1943 short story "A Situation of Gravity" by Samuel W. Taylor. The title character was based in part on Hubert Alyea, a professor emeritus of chemistry at P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotope%20geochemistry
Isotope geochemistry is an aspect of geology based upon the study of natural variations in the relative abundances of isotopes of various elements. Variations in isotopic abundance are measured by isotope ratio mass spectrometry, and can reveal information about the ages and origins of rock, air or water bodies, or pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20to%20None
Second to None may refer to: 2nd to None, a 2003 album by Elvis Presley Second to None (Chemistry album), a 2003 album by Chemistry Second to None (film), a 1927 British silent war film "Second to None", a song by Styles of Beyond, featuring Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park and Fort Minor, from the albums Transformers:...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary%20symmetric%20polynomial
In mathematics, specifically in commutative algebra, the elementary symmetric polynomials are one type of basic building block for symmetric polynomials, in the sense that any symmetric polynomial can be expressed as a polynomial in elementary symmetric polynomials. That is, any symmetric polynomial is given by an ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul%20Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is a U.S. astrophysicist, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and head of the International Supernova Cosmology Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of both...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Peter%20J%C3%B8rgen%20Julius%20Thomsen
Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen (16 February 1826 – 13 February 1909) was a Danish chemist noted in thermochemistry for the Thomsen–Berthelot principle. Life and work Thomsen was born in Copenhagen, and spent his life in that city. From 1847 to 1856 he taught chemistry at the Polytechnic, where from 1883 to 1892 he ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulation%20%28topology%29
In mathematics, triangulation describes the replacement of topological spaces by piecewise linear spaces, i.e. the choice of a homeomorphism in a suitable simplicial complex. Spaces being homeomorphic to a simplicial complex are called triangulable. Triangulation has various uses in different branches of mathematics, f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equilibrium%20point%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematics, specifically in differential equations, an equilibrium point is a constant solution to a differential equation. Formal definition The point is an equilibrium point for the differential equation if for all . Similarly, the point is an equilibrium point (or fixed point) for the difference equ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20theory
Object theory can refer to The object of a metatheory. The branch of metaphysics also known as abstract object theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20representation
In mathematics, if is a group and is a linear representation of it on the vector space , then the dual representation is defined over the dual vector space as follows: is the transpose of , that is, = for all . The dual representation is also known as the contragradient representation. If is a Lie algebra an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20conjugate%20of%20a%20vector%20space
In mathematics, the complex conjugate of a complex vector space is a complex vector space , which has the same elements and additive group structure as but whose scalar multiplication involves conjugation of the scalars. In other words, the scalar multiplication of satisfies where is the scalar multiplication of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20conjugate%20representation
In mathematics, if is a group and is a representation of it over the complex vector space , then the complex conjugate representation is defined over the complex conjugate vector space as follows: is the conjugate of for all in . is also a representation, as one may check explicitly. If is a real Lie algebr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Bayer
David Allen Bayer (born November 29, 1955) is an American mathematician known for his contributions in algebra and symbolic computation and for his consulting work in the movie industry. He is a professor of mathematics at Barnard College, Columbia University. Education and career Bayer was educated at Swarthmore Coll...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa%20Franklin
Melissa Eve Bronwen Franklin (born September 30, 1956) is a Canadian experimental particle physicist and the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University. In 1992, Franklin became the first woman to receive tenure in the physics department at Harvard University and she served as chair of the department from ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20technology
Environmental technology (envirotech) or green technology (greentech), also known as clean technology (cleantech), is the application of one or more of environmental science, green chemistry, environmental monitoring and electronic devices to monitor, model and conserve the natural environment and resources, and to cur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natterer
Natterer may refer to: People Christian Natterer (born 1981), German politician August Natterer (1868–1933), German artist Frank Natterer (born 1941), German mathematics professor Johann Natterer (1787–1843), Austrian explorer and naturalist Other Natterer's bat, Myotis nattereri
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorhat%20Engineering%20College
Jorhat Engineering College founded in 1960 by the Government of Assam, is a government engineering college in Assam, northeast India. The college, affiliated with Assam Science and Technology University, is accredited by the All India Council for Technical Education. It has five four-year undergraduate programs: Civil ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristovam%20Buarque
Cristovam Ricardo Cavalcanti Buarque (; born February 20, 1944) is a Brazilian university professor and member of Cidadania. He was a senator for the Federal District from 2003 to 2019. Biography Buarque graduated in mechanical engineering from the Federal University of Pernambuco in 1966. At that time he engaged in s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTAS
PTAS or Ptas may refer to: Polynomial-time approximation scheme, an approximation algorithm in computer science Pesetas, Spanish currency PTAS reduction, an approximation-preserving reduction in computational complexity theory Preferential trading area, another term for a trade bloc See also PTA (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible%20programming
Extensible programming is a term used in computer science to describe a style of computer programming that focuses on mechanisms to extend the programming language, compiler and runtime environment. Extensible programming languages, supporting this style of programming, were an active area of work in the 1960s, but th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina%20Byers
Nina Byers (January 19, 1930 – June 5, 2014) was a theoretical physicist, research professor and professor of physics emeritus in the department of physics and astronomy, UCLA, and Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. Contributions Byers received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950 and a Ph.D. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaddeus%20S.%20C.%20Lowe
Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe (August 20, 1832 – January 16, 1913), also known as Professor T. S. C. Lowe, was an American Civil War aeronaut, scientist and inventor, mostly self-educated in the fields of chemistry, meteorology, and aeronautics, and the father of military aerial reconnaissance in the United States...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessel%27s%20inequality
In mathematics, especially functional analysis, Bessel's inequality is a statement about the coefficients of an element in a Hilbert space with respect to an orthonormal sequence. The inequality was derived by F.W. Bessel in 1828. Let be a Hilbert space, and suppose that is an orthonormal sequence in . Then, for a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnier%20de%20Graaf
Regnier de Graaf (English spelling), original Dutch spelling Reinier de Graaf, or Latinized Reijnerus de Graeff (30 July 164117 August 1673), was a Dutch physician, physiologist and anatomist who made key discoveries in reproductive biology. He specialized in iatrochemistry and iatrogenesis, and was the first to develo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewens%27s%20sampling%20formula
In population genetics, Ewens's sampling formula, describes the probabilities associated with counts of how many different alleles are observed a given number of times in the sample. Definition Ewens's sampling formula, introduced by Warren Ewens, states that under certain conditions (specified below), if a random sam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatonic%20set%20theory
Diatonic set theory is a subdivision or application of musical set theory which applies the techniques and analysis of discrete mathematics to properties of the diatonic collection such as maximal evenness, Myhill's property, well formedness, the deep scale property, cardinality equals variety, and structure implies mu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-7%20%28rocket%29
The T-7 was China's first sounding rocket. A test rocket, dubbed the T-7M, was first successfully launched on 19 February 1960 in Nanhui, Shanghai, and a full-scale rocket was launched on 13 September 1960. Wang Xiji of the Shanghai Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering was the chief designer. Twenty-four ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A1C
A1C may refer to: Biology and chemistry Glycated hemoglobin (hemoglobin A1c or HbA1c), a surrogate marker for blood glucose levels A1C recepter, the alpha-1C adrenergic receptor Transportation and vehicles Rivian A1C, a prototype CUV, predecessor of the Rivian R1S MV (A1C) William H. Pitsenbarger, U.S. maritime se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20S.%20Barton
Robert Stanley "Bob" Barton (February 13, 1925 – January 28, 2009) was the chief architect of the Burroughs B5000 and other computers such as the B1700, a co-inventor of dataflow architecture, and an influential professor at the University of Utah. His students at Utah have had a large role in the development of compu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir%20Khader
Samir Khader is the Head of Programs and Current Affairs at Sky News Arabia, after having been the Program Editor & Head of Output of Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera. He comes from Jordan. He has degrees in journalism and mathematics from universities in Grenoble and Paris. Samir Khader began his career as a TV jou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated%20function
In mathematics, an iterated function is a function (that is, a function from some set to itself) which is obtained by composing another function with itself a certain number of times. The process of repeatedly applying the same function is called iteration. In this process, starting from some initial object, the re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate%20gradient%20method
In mathematics, the conjugate gradient method is an algorithm for the numerical solution of particular systems of linear equations, namely those whose matrix is positive-definite. The conjugate gradient method is often implemented as an iterative algorithm, applicable to sparse systems that are too large to be handled ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAF
MAF may refer to: Military Myanmar Air Force Malaysian Armed Forces Marine Amphibious Force, a former name for Marine Expeditionary Force, a type of U.S. Marine Corps task force Organizations Majid Al Futtaim Group Move America Forward Mission Aviation Fellowship Science MAF (gene) Minor allele frequency in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Blasphemy
Digital Blasphemy is a commercial website for computer wallpapers designed and created by independent Computer-generated imagery artist Ryan Bliss, an English and Computer Science graduate from the University of Iowa. The name Digital Blasphemy was chosen because of the "Godlike" feeling Bliss experienced when creating...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment%20robot
An entertainment robot is, as the name indicates, a robot that is not made for utilitarian use, as in production or domestic services, but for the sole subjective pleasure of the human. It serves, usually the owner or his housemates, guests, or clients. Robotic technologies are applied in many areas of culture and ente...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidiagonal%20matrix
In mathematics, a bidiagonal matrix is a banded matrix with non-zero entries along the main diagonal and either the diagonal above or the diagonal below. This means there are exactly two non-zero diagonals in the matrix. When the diagonal above the main diagonal has the non-zero entries the matrix is upper bidiagonal....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb%20Sutter
Herb Sutter is a prominent C++ expert. He is also an author of several books on C++ and was a columnist for Dr. Dobb's Journal. Education and career Sutter was born and raised in Oakville, Ontario, and studied computer science at Canada's University of Waterloo. From 1995 to 2001 he was chief technology officer at Pe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Katz
Nicholas Michael Katz (born December 7, 1943) is an American mathematician, working in arithmetic geometry, particularly on p-adic methods, monodromy and moduli problems, and number theory. He is currently a professor of Mathematics at Princeton University and an editor of the journal Annals of Mathematics. Life and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band%20matrix
In mathematics, particularly matrix theory, a band matrix or banded matrix is a sparse matrix whose non-zero entries are confined to a diagonal band, comprising the main diagonal and zero or more diagonals on either side. Band matrix Bandwidth Formally, consider an n×n matrix A=(ai,j ). If all matrix elements are ze...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homologous%20series
In organic chemistry, a homologous series is a sequence of compounds with the same functional group and similar chemical properties in which the members of the series can be branched or unbranched, or differ by molecular formula of and molecular mass of 14u. This can be the length of a carbon chain, for example in the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser%20guidance
Laser guidance directs a robotics system to a target position by means of a laser beam. The laser guidance of a robot is accomplished by projecting a laser light, image processing and communication to improve the accuracy of guidance. The key idea is to show goal positions to the robot by laser light projection instead...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth%20Lloyd
Seth Lloyd (born August 2, 1960) is a professor of mechanical engineering and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research area is the interplay of information with complex systems, especially quantum systems. He has performed seminal work in the fields of quantum computation, quantum communicati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20graph
In mathematics, a universal graph is an infinite graph that contains every finite (or at-most-countable) graph as an induced subgraph. A universal graph of this type was first constructed by Richard Rado and is now called the Rado graph or random graph. More recent work has focused on universal graphs for a graph ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20Schl%C3%A4fli
Ludwig Schläfli (15 January 1814 – 20 March 1895) was a Swiss mathematician, specialising in geometry and complex analysis (at the time called function theory) who was one of the key figures in developing the notion of higher-dimensional spaces. The concept of multidimensionality is pervasive in mathematics, has come t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara%20Immerwahr
Clara Helene Immerwahr (; 21 June 1870 – 2 May 1915) was a German chemist. She was the first German woman to be awarded a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Breslau, and is credited with being a pacifist as well as a "heroine of the women's rights movement". From 1901 until her suicide in 1915, she was marri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hankel%20transform
In mathematics, the Hankel transform expresses any given function f(r) as the weighted sum of an infinite number of Bessel functions of the first kind . The Bessel functions in the sum are all of the same order ν, but differ in a scaling factor k along the r axis. The necessary coefficient of each Bessel function in t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Hadley%20%28scholar%29
James Hadley (March 30, 1821 – November 14, 1872) was an American philologist who taught Greek and Hebrew languages at Yale College. Biography Hadley was born in Fairfield, New York, where his father was professor of chemistry at Fairfield Medical College. At the age of nine, a knee injury left him lame for life. Hadl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20engine
A physics engine is computer software that provides an approximate simulation of certain physical systems, such as rigid body dynamics (including collision detection), soft body dynamics, and fluid dynamics, of use in the domains of computer graphics, video games and film (CGI). Their main uses are in video games (typi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20field
In physics a free field is a field without interactions, which is described by the terms of motion and mass. Description In classical physics, a free field is a field whose equations of motion are given by linear partial differential equations. Such linear PDE's have a unique solution for a given initial condition. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null%20vector
In mathematics, given a vector space X with an associated quadratic form q, written , a null vector or isotropic vector is a non-zero element x of X for which . In the theory of real bilinear forms, definite quadratic forms and isotropic quadratic forms are distinct. They are distinguished in that only for the latter ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus%20Blackley
Jonathan "Seamus" Blackley (born 1968) is an American video game designer and former agent with Creative Artists Agency representing video game creators. He is best known for creating and designing the original Xbox in 2001. Career After entering Tufts University to study electrical engineering, Blackley switched to s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxcar%20function
In mathematics, a boxcar function is any function which is zero over the entire real line except for a single interval where it is equal to a constant, A. The function is named after its graph's resemblance to a boxcar, a type of railroad car. The boxcar function can be expressed in terms of the uniform distribution as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo%20Beenakker
Carlo Willem Joannes Beenakker (born 9 June 1960) is a professor at Leiden University and leader of the university's mesoscopic physics group, established in 1992. Early life and education Born in Leiden as the son of physicists Jan Beenakker and Elena Manaresi, Beenakker graduated from Leiden University in 1982 and o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%20approximation
In mathematics, σ-approximation adjusts a Fourier summation to greatly reduce the Gibbs phenomenon, which would otherwise occur at discontinuities. A σ-approximated summation for a series of period T can be written as follows: in terms of the normalized sinc function The term is the Lanczos σ factor, which is respo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudotensor
In physics and mathematics, a pseudotensor is usually a quantity that transforms like a tensor under an orientation-preserving coordinate transformation (e.g. a proper rotation) but additionally changes sign under an orientation-reversing coordinate transformation (e.g., an improper rotation), which is a transformation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Gaertner
Joseph Gaertner (12 March 1732 – 14 July 1791) was a German botanist, best known for his work on seeds, De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1788-1792). Biography He was born in Calw, and studied in Göttingen under Albrecht von Haller. He was primarily a naturalist, but also worked at physics and zoology. He travelled...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maceration
Maceration may refer to: Maceration (food), in food preparation Maceration (wine), a step in wine-making Carbonic maceration, a wine-making technique Maceration (sewage), in sewage treatment Maceration (bone), a method of preparing bones Acid maceration, the use of an acid to extract micro-fossils from rock Ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEST%20theorem
In graph theory, a part of discrete mathematics, the BEST theorem gives a product formula for the number of Eulerian circuits in directed (oriented) graphs. The name is an acronym of the names of people who discovered it: de Bruijn, van Aardenne-Ehrenfest, Smith and Tutte. Precise statement Let G = (V, E) be a dire...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto%20de%20Biolog%C3%ADa%20y%20Medicina%20Experimental
The Experimental Medicine and Biology Institute (, IByME) is a research and development centre affiliated to the University of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. History The institute was privately founded on March 14, 1944, by Dr. Bernardo A. Houssay, Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (1947) for his work ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20array
In computer science, a dynamic array, growable array, resizable array, dynamic table, mutable array, or array list is a random access, variable-size list data structure that allows elements to be added or removed. It is supplied with standard libraries in many modern mainstream programming languages. Dynamic arrays ove...