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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%20manifold | In mathematics, a hyperbolic manifold is a space where every point looks locally like hyperbolic space of some dimension. They are especially studied in dimensions 2 and 3, where they are called hyperbolic surfaces and hyperbolic 3-manifolds, respectively. In these dimensions, they are important because most manifolds ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Heinrich%20Thiessen | Georg Heinrich Thiessen (19 January 1914 – 3 July 1961) was a German astronomer.
After graduating, Georg Thiessen studied physics and mathematics and received his doctorate in 1940 under Richard Becker at Göttingen Georg August University. He joined the Fraunhofer Institute of the Institute for High Frequency Research... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNS | RNS may be an initialism for:
Rabid Neurosis, a music piracy organisation
RNS formalism in the string theory of physics
Reactive nitrogen species
Regulatory News Service
Religion News Service
Rennes - Saint-Jacques Airport, France, IATA code
Residue numeral system in mathematics
Responsive neurostimulation device, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cusp%20neighborhood | In mathematics, a cusp neighborhood is defined as a set of points near a cusp singularity.
Cusp neighborhood for a Riemann surface
The cusp neighborhood for a hyperbolic Riemann surface can be defined in terms of its Fuchsian model.
Suppose that the Fuchsian group G contains a parabolic element g. For example, the e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo%20and%20Mode%20in%20Evolution | Tempo and Mode in Evolution (1944) was George Gaylord Simpson's seminal contribution to the evolutionary synthesis, which integrated the facts of paleontology with those of genetics and natural selection.
Simpson argued that the microevolution of population genetics was sufficient in itself to explain the patterns of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KT%20%28energy%29 | kT (also written as kBT) is the product of the Boltzmann constant, k (or kB), and the temperature, T. This product is used in physics as a scale factor for energy values in molecular-scale systems (sometimes it is used as a unit of energy), as the rates and frequencies of many processes and phenomena depend not on thei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20immune%20system | In artificial intelligence, artificial immune systems (AIS) are a class of computationally intelligent, rule-based machine learning systems inspired by the principles and processes of the vertebrate immune system. The algorithms are typically modeled after the immune system's characteristics of learning and memory for ... |
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| 30004 Mikewilliams || || Mike Williams (born 1952) was a lead engineer at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. ||
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| 30005 Stevenchen || || Steven Chen (born 1996), a finalist in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modelling%20of%20General%20Systems | MGS (a General Model of Simulation) is a domain-specific language used for specification and simulation of dynamical systems with dynamical structure, developed at IBISC (Computer Science, Integrative Biology and Complex Systems) at Université d'Évry Val-d'Essonne (University of Évry). MGS is particularly aimed at mode... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closeness%20%28mathematics%29 | Closeness is a basic concept in topology and related areas in mathematics. Intuitively, we say two sets are close if they are arbitrarily near to each other. The concept can be defined naturally in a metric space where a notion of distance between elements of the space is defined, but it can be generalized to topologic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20genetics | Human genetics is the study of inheritance as it occurs in human beings. Human genetics encompasses a variety of overlapping fields including: classical genetics, cytogenetics, molecular genetics, biochemical genetics, genomics, population genetics, developmental genetics, clinical genetics, and genetic counseling.
Ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiperiodic%20motion | In mathematics and theoretical physics, quasiperiodic motion is in rough terms the type of motion executed by a dynamical system containing a finite number (two or more) of incommensurable frequencies.
That is, if we imagine that the phase space is modelled by a torus T (that is, the variables are periodic like angles... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Ehrenfried%20Weigel | Christian Ehrenfried von Weigel (24 May 1748 – 8 August 1831) was a Swedish-born German scientist and, beginning in 1774, a professor of chemistry, pharmacy, botany, and mineralogy at the University of Greifswald.
Biography
Born in Stralsund, in 1771 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Göttingen, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%20Birnbaum | Allan Birnbaum (May 27, 1923 – July 1, 1976) was an American statistician who contributed to statistical inference, foundations of statistics, statistical genetics, statistical psychology, and history of statistics.
Life and career
Birnbaum was born in San Francisco. His parents were Russian-born Orthodox Jews. He stu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20genetics | Statistical genetics is a scientific field concerned with the development and application of statistical methods for drawing inferences from genetic data. The term is most commonly used in the context of human genetics. Research in statistical genetics generally involves developing theory or methodology to support rese... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franck%E2%80%93Condon%20principle | The Franck–Condon principle (named for James Franck and Edward Condon) is a rule in spectroscopy and quantum chemistry that explains the intensity of vibronic transitions (the simultaneous changes in electronic and vibrational energy levels of a molecule due to the absorption or emission of a photon of the appropriate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work%20hardening | In materials science, work hardening, also known as strain hardening, is the strengthening of a metal or polymer by plastic deformation. Work hardening may be desirable, undesirable, or inconsequential, depending on the context.
This strengthening occurs because of dislocation movements and dislocation generation with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformly%20connected%20space | In topology and related areas of mathematics a uniformly connected space or Cantor connected space is a uniform space U such that every uniformly continuous function from U to a discrete uniform space is constant.
A uniform space U is called uniformly disconnected if it is not uniformly connected.
Properties
A comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20Cryptography%20Architecture | In computing, the Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) is a framework for working with cryptography using the Java programming language. It forms part of the Java security API, and was first introduced in JDK 1.1 in the package.
The JCA uses a "provider"-based architecture and contains a set of APIs for various purp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilation%20%28metric%20space%29 | In mathematics, a dilation is a function from a metric space into itself that satisfies the identity
for all points , where is the distance from to and is some positive real number.
In Euclidean space, such a dilation is a similarity of the space. Dilations change the size but not the shape of an object or figu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geminus | Geminus of Rhodes (), was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, who flourished in the 1st century BC. An astronomy work of his, the Introduction to the Phenomena, still survives; it was intended as an introductory astronomy book for students. He also wrote a work on mathematics, of which only fragments quoted by later ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Snowblind | Project: Snowblind is a first-person shooter video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Eidos Interactive for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows. The game follows soldier Nathan Frost, who is enhanced with nanotechnology following injuries on a mission and sent against a military regime known as t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauko%20Armas%20Nieminen | Kauko Armas Nieminen (15 February 1929 – 2010) was a Finnish self-taught physicist.
Nieminen was born in Kuopio, Finland. Although he was most known for his works in physics, he did not have any academic training or degree in physics, but was entirely self-taught. He had a bachelor's degree in law from the University ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity%20%28disambiguation%29 | Velocity is a quantity in physics that is related to speed.
Velocity may also refer to:
Computing and technology
Apache Velocity, a Java template engine
Velocity (JavaScript library)
Velocity (memory cache), from Microsoft
Velocity (software development), a measure of productivity
Arts, entertainment, and media... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicinal | Vicinal may refer to:
Vicinal (chemistry), stands for any two functional groups bonded to two adjacent atoms.
Vicinal (logology), a word where all letters have alphabetic neighbors.
Vicinal tramway or Buurtspoor, a system of narrow gauge tramways or local railways in Belgium.
In materials science, a "vicinal subst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wess%E2%80%93Zumino%E2%80%93Witten%20model | In theoretical physics and mathematics, a Wess–Zumino–Witten (WZW) model, also called a Wess–Zumino–Novikov–Witten model, is a type of two-dimensional conformal field theory named after Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino, Sergei Novikov and Edward Witten. A WZW model is associated to a Lie group (or supergroup), and its symmetr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZP | ZP may refer to:
Mathematics and science
Zp, the ring of p-adic integers
Zona pellucida (or egg coat), a glycoprotein layer around an oocyte
Z/pZ, the cyclic group of integers modulo p
Organisations
Zila Parishad ():
District Councils of Bangladesh
District Councils of India
Zjednoczona Prawica, the Polish Unit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20gap | The semantic gap characterizes the difference between two descriptions of an object by different linguistic representations, for instance languages or symbols. According to Andreas M. Hein, the semantic gap can be defined as "the difference in meaning between constructs formed within different representation systems". ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto%20Ierusalimschy | Roberto Ierusalimschy (; born 21 May 1960) is a Brazilian computer scientist, known for creating the Lua programming language. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro where he has an appointment as a full professor of informatics. He did a post-doc at University of W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNA | BNA may refer to:
Bahrain News Agency, the state news agency of Bahrain
Bakhtar News Agency, the state news agency in Afghanistan
Basle Nomina Anatomica, the first revision of anatomic nomenclature
Burma National Army
Bulgarian National Alliance
British Naturalists' Association
British Neuroscience Association
British ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic | Exotic may refer to:
Mathematics and physics
Exotic R4, a differentiable 4-manifold, homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to the Euclidean space R4
Exotic sphere, a differentiable n-manifold, homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to the ordinary n-sphere
Exotic atom, an atom with one or more electrons replaced by other neg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20signature%20%28cryptography%29 | In cryptography, a key signature is the result of a third-party applying a cryptographic signature to a representation of a cryptographic key. This is usually done as a form of assurance or verification: If "Alice" has signed "Bob's" key, it can serve as an assurance to another party, say "Eve", that the key actually b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie%20theory | In mathematics, the mathematician Sophus Lie ( ) initiated lines of study involving integration of differential equations, transformation groups, and contact of spheres that have come to be called Lie theory. For instance, the latter subject is Lie sphere geometry. This article addresses his approach to transformation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughlin | Laughlin may refer to:
Places
Laughlin, California
Laughlin, Nevada
Laughlin Air Force Base
Laughlin (Nevada gaming area)
Other uses
Laughlin (surname)
Laughlin City, a fictional town in Alberta, Canada in the 2000 movie X-Men
Laughlin wavefunction, an ansatz for the ground state of a two-dimensional electron gas (ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollifier | In mathematics, mollifiers (also known as approximations to the identity) are smooth functions with special properties, used for example in distribution theory to create sequences of smooth functions approximating nonsmooth (generalized) functions, via convolution. Intuitively, given a function which is rather irregula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%20Alcorn | Allan Alcorn (born January 1, 1948) is an American pioneering engineer and computer scientist best known for creating Pong, one of the first video games.
Atari and Pong
Alcorn grew up in San Francisco, California, and attended the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in ele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery%20Fabrikant | Valery Iosifovich Fabrikant (, , ; born 28 January 1940) is a former associate professor of mechanical engineering at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. On 24 August 1992, after years of increasingly disruptive behaviour at the university, he shot and killed four colleagues and wounded one staff member.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20test | In chemistry, a chemical test is a qualitative or quantitative procedure designed to identify, quantify, or characterise a chemical compound or chemical group.
Purposes
Chemical testing might have a variety of purposes, such as to:
Determine if, or verify that, the requirements of a specification, regulation, or cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20S.%20Carr | George Shoobridge Carr (1837–1914) was a British mathematician. He wrote Synopsis of Pure Mathematics (1886). This book, first published in England in 1880, was read and studied closely by mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan when he was a teenager. Ramanujan had already produced many theorems by the age of 15.
Carr was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes%20Cendrero | Orestes Cendrero was a Spanish naturalist and professor of biology at Instituto Nacional de Segunda Enseñanza in Santander. He was a colombophilia researcher, (studied pigeons), and was editor of the pigeon scientific journal: Boletín Colombófilo Español.
Bibliography
Lecciones de Historia Natural acomodadas al c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorification | In mathematics, categorification is the process of replacing set-theoretic theorems with category-theoretic analogues. Categorification, when done successfully, replaces sets with categories, functions with functors, and equations with natural isomorphisms of functors satisfying additional properties. The term was coi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber%20%28disambiguation%29 | A fiber is a long strand of material.
Fiber or Fibre may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Healthcare
Dietary fiber
Myofiber, or muscle fiber, strands of muscle tissue
Nerve fiber, strands of nervous tissue
Mathematics and technology
Fiber (computer science)
Fiber (mathematics)
Fiber laser (or fib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Size%20Strength%20classification | In geology, size strength classification is a two-parameter rock classification based on the strength of intact rock and the spacing of discontinuities in the rock mass. It was developed by Louis and Franklin (1970-75).
The size-strength approach to rock mass characterisation has been found helpful in various mining ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Irving%20Bell | George Irving Bell (August 4, 1926 – May 28, 2000) was an American physicist, biologist and mountaineer, and a grandson of John Joseph Seerley. He died in 2000 from complications of leukemia after surgery.
Education
Bell received a bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University in 1947. He studied theoretical ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughan%20Pratt | Vaughan Pratt (born April 12, 1944) is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, who was an early pioneer in the field of computer science. Since 1969, Pratt has made several contributions to foundational areas such as search algorithms, sorting algorithms, and primality testing. More recently, his research has focu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit%20sum | In mathematics, the digit sum of a natural number in a given number base is the sum of all its digits. For example, the digit sum of the decimal number would be
Definition
Let be a natural number. We define the digit sum for base , to be the following:
where is one less than the number of digits in the number in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydisc | In the theory of functions of several complex variables, a branch of mathematics, a polydisc is a Cartesian product of discs.
More specifically, if we denote by the open disc of center z and radius r in the complex plane, then an open polydisc is a set of the form
It can be equivalently written as
One should not co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20B.%20Whinston | Andrew B. Whinston (born June 3, 1936) is an American economist and computer scientist. He is the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration, Professor of Information Systems, Computer Science and Economics, and Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce (CREC) in the McCombs School of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20S.%20Ray | Thomas S. Ray is an evolutionary biologist known for his research in tropical biology, digital evolution, and the human mind.
Early life and education
Ray earned his undergraduate degrees in biology and chemistry at Florida State University. He then proceeded to Harvard University, where he received his master's and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%20Jacobson | Homer Jacobson is a former chemistry professor at Brooklyn College, New York City.
In the 1950s he illustrated basic self-replication in artificial life with a model train set. A seed "organism" consisting of a "head" and "tail" boxcar could use the simple rules of the system to consistently create new "organisms" ide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20F.%20Moore | Edward Forrest Moore (November 23, 1925 in Baltimore, Maryland – June 14, 2003 in Madison, Wisconsin) was an American professor of mathematics and computer science, the inventor of the Moore finite state machine, and an early pioneer of artificial life.
Biography
Moore received a B.S. in chemistry from the Virginia Po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloring | Coloring or colouring may refer to:
Color, or the act of changing the color of an object
Coloring, the act of adding color to the pages of a coloring book
Coloring, the act of adding color to comic book pages, where the person's job title is Colorist
Graph coloring, in mathematics
Hair coloring
Food coloring
Ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Klein%20%28inventor%29 | George Johann Klein, (August 15, 1904 – November 4, 1992) was a Canadian inventor who is often called the most productive inventor in Canada in the 20th century. Although he struggled as a high school student, he eventually graduated from the University of Toronto in Mechanical Engineering. His inventions include key ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20comparison%20test | In mathematics, the comparison test, sometimes called the direct comparison test to distinguish it from similar related tests (especially the limit comparison test), provides a way of deducing the convergence or divergence of an infinite series or an improper integral. In both cases, the test works by comparing the giv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA%20Suite%20B%20Cryptography | NSA Suite B Cryptography was a set of cryptographic algorithms promulgated by the National Security Agency as part of its Cryptographic Modernization Program. It was to serve as an interoperable cryptographic base for both unclassified information and most classified information.
Suite B was announced on 16 February ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Berlinski | David Berlinski (born 1942) is an American author who has written books about mathematics and the history of science as well as fiction. An opponent of evolution, he is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, an organization which promotes the pseudoscience of intelligent design.
E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Daft | Douglas Neville Daft (born 20 March 1943 in Cessnock, New South Wales) is an Australian businessman.
He graduated from the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales in 1963 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Mathematics. While at the University of New England he lived at Robb College. During th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittag-Leffler%20function | In mathematics, the Mittag-Leffler function is a special function, a complex function which depends on two complex parameters and . It may be defined by the following series when the real part of is strictly positive:
where is the gamma function. When , it is abbreviated as .
For , the series above equals the Tay... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass%20functions | In mathematics, the Weierstrass functions are special functions of a complex variable that are auxiliary to the Weierstrass elliptic function. They are named for Karl Weierstrass. The relation between the sigma, zeta, and functions is analogous to that between the sine, cotangent, and squared cosecant functions: the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20B.%20Goodenough | John Bannister Goodenough ( ; July 25, 1922 – June 25, 2023) was an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. From 1996 he was a professor of Mechanical, Materials Science, and Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is credited with
identifying t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20cell | Memory cell may refer to:
Biology
Memory cells (motor cortex), found in the primary motor cortex (M1), a region located in the posterior portion of the frontal lobe of the brain.
Memory B cell, an antibody producing cell
Memory T cell, an infection fighting cell
Computing
Memory cell (computing), a building bloc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solubility%20pump | In oceanic biogeochemistry, the solubility pump is a physico-chemical process that transports carbon as dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) from the ocean's surface to its interior.
Overview
The solubility pump is driven by the coincidence of two processes in the ocean :
The solubility of carbon dioxide is a strong in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20N.%20R.%20Rao | Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao, (born 30 June 1934), is an Indian chemist who has worked mainly in solid-state and structural chemistry. He has honorary doctorates from 84 universities from around the world and has authored around 1,800 research publications and 56 books. He is described as a scientist who had won... |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%20Kosko | Bart Andrew Kosko (born February 7, 1960) is a writer and professor of electrical engineering and law at the University of Southern California (USC). He is a researcher and popularizer of fuzzy logic, neural networks, and noise, and the author of several trade books and textbooks on these and related subjects of machin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20tree | In computer science, a dancing tree is a tree data structure similar to B+ trees. It was invented by Hans Reiser, for use by the Reiser4 file system. As opposed to self-balancing binary search trees that attempt to keep their nodes balanced at all times, dancing trees only balance their nodes when flushing data to a d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20pair%20of%20periods | In mathematics, a fundamental pair of periods is an ordered pair of complex numbers that defines a lattice in the complex plane. This type of lattice is the underlying object with which elliptic functions and modular forms are defined.
Definition
A fundamental pair of periods is a pair of complex numbers such that th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinwheel%20%28cryptography%29 | In cryptography, a pinwheel was a device for producing a short pseudorandom sequence of bits (determined by the machine's initial settings), as a component in a cipher machine. A pinwheel consisted of a rotating wheel with a certain number of positions on its periphery. Each position had a "pin", "cam" or "lug" which c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Ewald | Victor Vladímirovich Ewald (or Ėval′d) (; 27 November 1860 – 16 April 1935), was a Russian engineer, architect, and composer of music, mainly for conical brass instruments.
Biography
Victor Ewald was born in Saint Petersburg and died in Leningrad. Ewald was a professor of Civil Engineering in St. Petersburg, and was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1585%20in%20science | The year 1585 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Exploration
August 8 – English explorer John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in Baffin Island in his quest for the Northwest Passage.
Mathematics
John Blagrave publishes The Mathematical Jewel, showing the making and most exc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NH4 | NH4 or NH 4 or NH-4 may refer to:
Ammonium, the cation in chemistry
National Highway 4 (India), new numbering for a National Highway in India
National Highway 4 (India, old numbering), a major National Highway in western and southern India
New Hampshire Route 4, a short state highway located in eastern Strafford ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postulates%20of%20special%20relativity | In physics, Albert Einstein derived the theory of special relativity in 1905 from principle now called the postulates of special relativity. Einstein's formulation is said to only require two postulates, though his derivation implies a few more assumptions.
The idea that special relativity depended only on two postul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tufts%20University%20School%20of%20Engineering | The School of Engineering is one of the ten schools that comprise Tufts University. The school offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in several engineering disciplines and computer science fields. Along with the School of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the School of Engineerin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Grossmann | Alexander Grossmann (5 August 1930 – 12 February 2019) was a French-American physicist of Croatian origin.
He travelled to the United States in 1955, working in the physics departments of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, Brandeis University, and the Courant Institute, NYU, then again at the IAS unti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C3%A8te%27s%20formula | In mathematics, Viète's formula is the following infinite product of nested radicals representing twice the reciprocal of the mathematical constant :
It can also be represented as:
The formula is named after François Viète, who published it in 1593. As the first formula of European mathematics to represent an infinit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex%20shedding | In fluid dynamics, vortex shedding is an oscillating flow that takes place when a fluid such as air or water flows past a bluff (as opposed to streamlined) body at certain velocities, depending on the size and shape of the body. In this flow, vortices are created at the back of the body and detach periodically from eit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20density | In physics, energy density is the amount of energy stored in a given system or region of space per unit volume. It is sometimes confused with energy per unit mass which is properly called specific energy or .
Often only the useful or extractable energy is measured, which is to say that inaccessible energy (such as res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Lewin | Walter Hendrik Gustav Lewin (The Hague, January 29, 1936) is a Dutch astrophysicist and retired professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lewin earned his doctorate in nuclear physics in 1965 at the Delft University of Technology and was a member of MIT's physics faculty for 43 years beginning ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20Allen | Oscar Allen may refer to:
Oscar Allen (footballer) (born 1999), Australian rules footballer for the West Coast Eagles
Oscar K. Allen (1882–1936), 42nd governor of Louisiana
Oscar Dana Allen (1836–1913), American professor of chemistry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold%20Baer | Reinhold Baer (22 July 1902 – 22 October 1979) was a German mathematician, known for his work in algebra. He introduced injective modules in 1940. He is the eponym of Baer rings and Baer groups.
Biography
Baer studied mechanical engineering for a year at Leibniz University Hannover. He then went to study philosophy a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on%20Brillouin | Léon Nicolas Brillouin (; August 7, 1889 – October 4, 1969) was a French physicist. He made contributions to quantum mechanics, radio wave propagation in the atmosphere, solid-state physics, and information theory.
Early life
Brillouin was born in Sèvres, near Paris, France. His father, Marcel Brillouin, grandfather... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20genetics%20articles | Genetics (from Ancient Greek , “genite” and that from , “origin”), a discipline of biology, is the science of heredity and variation in living organisms.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/138%20%28number%29 | 138 (one hundred [and] thirty-eight) is the natural number following 137 and preceding 139.
In mathematics
138 is a sphenic number, and the smallest product of three primes such that in base 10, the third prime is a concatenation of the other two: . It is also a one-step palindrome in decimal (138 + 831 = 969).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSPLab | The Perceptual Signal Processing Lab, or PSPLab, is an audio research lab of National Chiao Tung University. It is located in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and focuses on researching better perceptual signal processing techniques, particularly in regard to DSP, Perception, and Software.
Current areas of research in PSPLab include:... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barotropic%20fluid | In fluid dynamics, a barotropic fluid is a fluid whose density is a function of pressure only. The barotropic fluid is a useful model of fluid behavior in a wide variety of scientific fields, from meteorology to astrophysics.
The density of most liquids is nearly constant (isopycnic), so it can be stated that their de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%20Huberath | Marek S. Huberath (pen name, born 1954) is a Polish professor of physics in the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and an award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer. His themes are philosophical, moral, and religious: how people become beasts or remain human in extreme circumstances. Many of his stories focus on d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan-Vickers | Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks, was a British heavy electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse. Highly diversified, it was particularly well known for its industrial electrical equipment such as generators, steam turbines, switchgear, transform... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectivity%20%28graph%20theory%29 | In mathematics and computer science, connectivity is one of the basic concepts of graph theory: it asks for the minimum number of elements (nodes or edges) that need to be removed to separate the remaining nodes into two or more isolated subgraphs. It is closely related to the theory of network flow problems. The conne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Adela%20Blagg | Mary Adela Blagg (17 May 1858 – 14 April 1944) was an English astronomer and was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1916.
Biography
She was born in Cheadle, Staffordshire, and lived her entire life there. Mary was the daughter of a solicitor, John Charles Blagg, and France Caroline Foottit. She tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HJ | HJ may refer to:
Science, technology, and mathematics
Hall–Janko group, a mathematical group
U.S. code for a cryptographic key change; see cryptoperiod
Other uses
, a two-letter combination used in some languages
hj-reduction in English, dropping the sound before
Hajji (Hj.), an Islamic honorific
Handjob
h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20level%20splitting | In quantum physics, energy level splitting or a split in an energy level of a quantum system occurs when a perturbation changes the system. The perturbation changes the corresponding Hamiltonian and the outcome is change in eigenvalues; several distinct energy levels emerge in place of the former degenerate (multi-stat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullio%20Regge | Tullio Eugenio Regge (; July 11, 1931 – October 23, 2014) was an Italian theoretical physicist.
Biography
Regge obtained the laurea in physics from the University of Turin in 1952 under the direction of Mario Verde and Gleb Wataghin, and a PhD in physics from the University of Rochester in 1957 under the direction of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfonic%20acid | In organic chemistry, sulfonic acid (or sulphonic acid) refers to a member of the class of organosulfur compounds with the general formula , where R is an organic alkyl or aryl group and the group a sulfonyl hydroxide. As a substituent, it is known as a sulfo group. A sulfonic acid can be thought of as sulfuric acid ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Galison | Peter Louis Galison (born May 17, 1955) is an American historian and philosopher of science. He is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in history of science and physics at Harvard University.
Biography
Galison received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., in both physics and history of science, at Harvard University. Hi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Laird | Matthew Laird (born 1977) is a Canadian academic, activist and politician. Having helped lead numerous political campaigns he continues to work with community groups on social and environmental issues.
Laird was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, earning a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20module | In mathematics, a topological module is a module over a topological ring such that scalar multiplication and addition are continuous.
Examples
A topological vector space is a topological module over a topological field.
An abelian topological group can be considered as a topological module over where is the ring o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevil%20Story%20Maskelyne | Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story Maskelyne (3 September 1823 – 20 May 1911) was an English geologist and politician.
Scientific career
Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, Maskelyne taught mineralogy and chemistry at Oxford from 1851, before becoming a professor of mineralogy, 1856–95. He was Keeper of Minerals at the Britis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/141%20%28number%29 | 141 (one hundred [and] forty-one) is the natural number following 140 and preceding 142.
In mathematics
141 is:
a centered pentagonal number.
the sum of the sums of the divisors of the first 13 positive integers.
the second n to give a prime Cullen number (of the form n2n + 1).
an undulating number in base 10, with th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermo%20Electron | Thermo Electron Corporation (NYSE: TMO) (incorporated 1956) was a major provider of analytical instruments and services for a variety of domains. It was founded in 1956 by George N. Hatsopoulos, an MIT PhD in mechanical engineering. Initial funding was provided by Peter M. Nomikos, a Harvard Business School graduate.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociation%20%28chemistry%29 | Dissociation in chemistry is a general process in which molecules (or ionic compounds such as salts, or complexes) separate or split into other things such as atoms, ions, or radicals, usually in a reversible manner. For instance, when an acid dissolves in water, a covalent bond between an electronegative atom and a hy... |
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