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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws%20of%20motion | In physics, a number of noted theories of the motion of objects have developed. Among the best known are:
Classical mechanics
Newton's laws of motion
Euler's laws of motion
Cauchy's equations of motion
Kepler's laws of planetary motion
General relativity
Special relativity
Quantum mechanics
Motion (physics) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courant%20Institute%20of%20Mathematical%20Sciences | The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (commonly known as Courant or CIMS) is the mathematics research school of New York University (NYU), and is among the most prestigious mathematics schools and mathematical sciences research centers in the world. Founded in 1935, it is named after Richard Courant, one of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blending%20inheritance | Blending inheritance is an obsolete theory in biology from the 19th century. The theory is that the progeny inherits any characteristic as the average of the parents' values of that characteristic. As an example of this, a crossing of a red flower variety with a white variety of the same species would yield pink-flower... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20Veronese | Giuseppe Veronese (7 May 1854 – 17 July 1917) was an Italian mathematician. He was born in Chioggia, near Venice.
Education
Veronese earned his laurea in mathematics from the Istituto Tecnico di Venezia in 1872.
Work
Although Veronese's work was severely criticised as unsound by Peano, he is now recognised as having ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hora%C8%9Biu%20N%C4%83stase | Horațiu Năstase is a Romanian physicist and professor in the string theory group at Instituto de Física Teórica of the São Paulo State University in São Paulo, Brazil.
He was born in Bucharest, Romania, and finished high school at the Nicolae Bălcescu High School (now Saint Sava National College). He did his undergrad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Welsh%20mathematicians | This is a list of Welsh mathematicians, who have contributed to the development of mathematics.
References
Chambers, Ll. G. Mathemategwyr Cymru (Mathematicians of Wales), Cyd Bwyllgor Addysg Cymru, 1994.
External links
Welsh scientists Mathematicians, Scientists and Inventors
Welsh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrature%20%28geometry%29 | In mathematics, particularly in geometry, quadrature (also called squaring) is a historical process of drawing a square with the same area as a given plane figure or computing the numerical value of that area. A classical example is the quadrature of the circle (or squaring the circle).
Quadrature problems served as on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphaleron | A sphaleron ( "slippery") is a static (time-independent) solution to the electroweak field equations of the Standard Model of particle physics, and is involved in certain hypothetical processes that violate baryon and lepton numbers. Such processes cannot be represented by perturbative methods such as Feynman diagrams,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexafluoro-2-propanol | Hexafluoroisopropanol, commonly abbreviated HFIP, is the organic compound with the formula (CF3)2CHOH. This fluoroalcohol finds use as solvent in organic chemistry. Hexafluoro-2-propanol is transparent to UV light with high density, low viscosity and low refractive index. It is a colorless, volatile liquid with a pun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%20Narby | Jeremy Narby (born 1959 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian anthropologist and author.
In his books, Narby examines shamanism, molecular biology, and shamans' knowledge of botanics and biology through the use of entheogens across many cultures.
Early life and education
Narby was born in 1959 and grew up in Montreal, Q... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-analog | In mathematics, a q-analog of a theorem, identity or expression is a generalization involving a new parameter q that returns the original theorem, identity or expression in the limit as . Typically, mathematicians are interested in q-analogs that arise naturally, rather than in arbitrarily contriving q-analogs of know... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz%20Pagels | Heinz Rudolf Pagels (February 19, 1939 – July 23, 1988) was an American physicist, an associate professor of physics at Rockefeller University, the executive director and chief executive officer of the New York Academy of Sciences, and president of the International League for Human Rights. He wrote the popular science... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc%20elasticity | In mathematics and economics, the arc elasticity is the elasticity of one variable with respect to another between two given points. It is the ratio of the percentage change of one of the variables between the two points to the percentage change of the other variable. It contrasts with the point elasticity, which is th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse | Impulse or Impulsive may refer to:
Science
Impulse (physics), in mechanics, the change of momentum of an object; the integral of a force with respect to time
Impulse noise (disambiguation)
Specific impulse, the change in momentum per unit mass of propellant of a propulsion system
Impulse function, a mathematical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20graph%20theory | Algebraic graph theory is a branch of mathematics in which algebraic methods are applied to problems about graphs. This is in contrast to geometric, combinatoric, or algorithmic approaches. There are three main branches of algebraic graph theory, involving the use of linear algebra, the use of group theory, and the st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain%20energy | In physics, the elastic potential energy gained by a wire during elongation with a tensile (stretching) or compressive (contractile) force is called strain energy. For linearly elastic materials, strain energy is:
where is stress, is strain, is volume, and is Young's modulus:
Molecular strain
In a molecule, st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic%20hydrocarbon | In organic chemistry, a Platonic hydrocarbon is a hydrocarbon (molecule) whose structure matches one of the five Platonic solids, with carbon atoms replacing its vertices, carbon–carbon bonds replacing its edges, and hydrogen atoms as needed.
Not all Platonic solids have molecular hydrocarbon counterparts; those that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Alvord%20%28mathematician%29 | Benjamin Alvord (August 18, 1813 – October 16, 1884) was an American soldier, mathematician, and botanist.
Early life and career
Alvord was born in Rutland, Vermont, where he developed an interest in nature. He attended the United States Military Academy and displayed a talent in mathematics. He graduated in 1833.
He... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacek%20Karpi%C5%84ski | Jacek Karpiński (9 April 1927 21 February 2010) was a Polish pioneer in computer engineering and computer science.
During World War II, he was a soldier in the Batalion Zośka of the Polish Home Army, and was awarded multiple times with a Cross of Valour. He took part in Operation Kutschera (intelligence) and the Warsa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock%20of%20physics | The Woodstock of physics was the popular name given by physicists to the marathon session of the American Physical Society’s meeting on March 18, 1987, which featured 51 presentations of recent discoveries in the science of high-temperature superconductors. Various presenters anticipated that these new materials would ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst%20Ludwig%20St%C3%B6rmer | Horst Ludwig Störmer (; born April 6, 1949) is a German physicist, Nobel laureate and emeritus professor at Columbia University.
He was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Daniel Tsui and Robert Laughlin "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations" (the fra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoscale | Mesoscale may refer to:
Mesoscale meteorology
Mesoscopic scale in physics
Mesoscale manufacturing
Mesoscale eddies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not%20in%20Our%20Genes | Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature is a 1984 book by the evolutionary geneticist Richard Lewontin, the neurobiologist Steven Rose, and the psychologist Leon Kamin, in which the authors criticize sociobiology and genetic determinism and advocate a socialist society. Its themes include the relationship ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens-Schuckert | Siemens-Schuckert (or Siemens-Schuckertwerke) was a German electrical engineering company headquartered in Berlin, Erlangen and Nuremberg that was incorporated into the Siemens AG in 1966.
Siemens Schuckert was founded in 1903 when Siemens & Halske acquired Schuckertwerke. Subsequently, Siemens & Halske specialized in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jochen%20Liedtke | Jochen Liedtke (26 May 1953 – 10 June 2001) was a German computer scientist, noted for his work on microkernel operating systems, especially in creating the L4 microkernel family.
Career
Education
In the mid-1970s Liedtke studied for a diploma degree in mathematics at the Bielefeld University. His thesis project was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20computing | In computer science, interactive computing refers to software which accepts input from the user as it runs.
Interactive software includes commonly used programs, such as word processors or spreadsheet applications. By comparison, non-interactive programs operate without user intervention; examples of these include com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segre%20embedding | In mathematics, the Segre embedding is used in projective geometry to consider the cartesian product (of sets) of two projective spaces as a projective variety. It is named after Corrado Segre.
Definition
The Segre map may be defined as the map
taking a pair of points to their product
(the XiYj are taken in lexicog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozonolysis | In organic chemistry, ozonolysis is an organic reaction where the unsaturated bonds are cleaved with ozone (). Multiple carbon–carbon bond are replaced by carbonyl () groups, such as aldehydes, ketones, and carboxylic acids. The reaction is predominantly applied to alkenes, but alkynes and azo compounds are also suscep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAR%20T%20cell | In biology, chimeric antigen receptors (CARs)—also known as chimeric immunoreceptors, chimeric T cell receptors or artificial T cell receptors—are receptor proteins that have been engineered to give T cells the new ability to target a specific antigen. The receptors are chimeric in that they combine both antigen-bindin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottomness | In physics, bottomness (symbol B′ using a prime as plain B is used already for baryon number) or beauty is a flavour quantum number reflecting the difference between the number of bottom antiquarks (n) and the number of bottom quarks (n) that are present in a particle:
Bottom quarks have (by convention) a bottomness o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20H.%20Bennett%20%28physicist%29 | Charles Henry Bennett (born 1943) is a physicist, information theorist and IBM Fellow at IBM Research. Bennett's recent work at IBM has concentrated on a re-examination of the physical basis of information, applying quantum physics to the problems surrounding information exchange. He has played a major role in elucidat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20regional%20mathematics%20competitions | Many math competitions in the United States have regional restrictions. Of these, most are statewide.
For a more complete list, please visit here .
The contests include:
Alabama
Alabama Statewide High School Mathematics Contest
Virgil Grissom High School Math Tournament
Vestavia Hills High School Math Tournament... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak%20hypercharge | In the Standard Model of electroweak interactions of particle physics, the weak hypercharge is a quantum number relating the electric charge and the third component of weak isospin. It is frequently denoted and corresponds to the gauge symmetry U(1).
It is conserved (only terms that are overall weak-hypercharge neutr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak%20isospin | In particle physics, weak isospin is a quantum number relating to the electrically charged part of the weak interaction: Particles with half-integer weak isospin can interact with the bosons; particles with zero weak isospin do not.
Weak isospin is a construct parallel to the idea of isospin under the strong interacti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Besant%20Hill%20School | Besant Hill School of Happy Valley, formerly the Happy Valley School, is an American private, coeducational boarding school and day school in Ojai, California. Notable subjects are environmental science and sustainability program coupled with a working garden/farm on campus. The school has approximately 100 students an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy%20measure%20theory | In mathematics, fuzzy measure theory considers generalized measures in which the additive property is replaced by the weaker property of monotonicity. The central concept of fuzzy measure theory is the fuzzy measure (also capacity, see ), which was introduced by Choquet in 1953 and independently defined by Sugeno in 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20O.%20Thorp | Edward Oakley Thorp (born August 14, 1932) is an American mathematics professor, author, hedge fund manager, and blackjack researcher. He pioneered the modern applications of probability theory, including the harnessing of very small correlations for reliable financial gain.
Thorp is the author of Beat the Dealer, wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commit%20%28data%20management%29 | In computer science and data management, a commit is the making of a set of tentative changes permanent, marking the end of a transaction and providing Durability to ACID transactions. A commit is an act of committing. The record of commits is called the commit log.
In terms of transactions, the opposite of commit is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Mathematics%2C%20Physics%2C%20and%20Mechanics | Institute of Mathematics, Physics, and Mechanics (; IMFM) is the leading research institution in the areas of mathematics and theoretical computer science in Slovenia. It includes researchers from University of Ljubljana, University of Maribor and University of Primorska. It was founded in 1960.
The IMFM is composed o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles%20Brassard | Gilles Brassard, is a faculty member of the Université de Montréal, where he has been a Full Professor since 1988 and Canada Research Chair since 2001.
Education and early life
Brassard received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1979, working in the field of cryptography with John Hopcroft as his... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STW%20%28disambiguation%29 | STW or StW may refer to:
Business
Scott Tallon Walker Architects
Stop the War Coalition, an anti-war group in the United Kingdom
Mathematics
The Shimura-Taniyama-Weil conjecture, a generalization of Fermat's Last Theorem.
Music
Salt the Wound, a deathcore band
Silence the World, third album by the Swedish band ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman%20projection | A Newman projection is a drawing that helps visualize the 3-dimensional structure of a molecule. This projection most commonly sights down a carbon-carbon bond, making it a very useful way to visualize the stereochemistry of alkanes. A Newman projection visualizes the conformation of a chemical bond from front to back,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipsed%20conformation | In chemistry an eclipsed conformation is a conformation in which two substituents X and Y on adjacent atoms A, B are in closest proximity, implying that the torsion angle X–A–B–Y is 0°. Such a conformation can exist in any open chain, single chemical bond connecting two sp3-hybridised atoms, and it is normally a confor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Adriaan%20van%20Dorp | David 'Davy' Adriaan van Dorp (April 27, 1915 in Amsterdam – February 19, 1995 in Vlaardingen) was a Dutch chemist.
Biography
Van Dorp was born as the son of Hendrik van Dorp and Maria van Dorp, and studied chemistry in Amsterdam where he received a PhD for his thesis Aneurine en gistphosphatase in 1941.
In 1946, wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Heinrich%20Diemer | Johann Heinrich (Harry) Diemer (7 November 1904 – June 1945) was born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands. His father was the reverend N. Diemer, who served at the Reformed Church at Vijfhuizen. He studied biology at the University of Leiden. He studied the ideas of Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck and Jan Woltjer, and soon be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenuation%20length | In physics, the attenuation length or absorption length is the distance into a material when the probability has dropped to that a particle has not been absorbed. Alternatively, if there is a beam of particles incident on the material, the attenuation length is the distance where the intensity of the beam has droppe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation%20length | In particle physics, the radiation length is a characteristic of a material, related to the energy loss of high energy particles electromagnetically interacting with it. It is defined as the mean length (in cm) into the material at which the energy of an electron is reduced by the factor 1/e.
Definition
In materials ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Ocean%20Sciences%20Bowl | The National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB) is a national high-school science competition managed by the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. It follows a quiz-bowl format, with lockout buzzers and extended team challenge questions to test students on their knowledge of oceanography. Questions cover the fields of biology, chem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Elmsley | Alex Elmsley (2 March 1929 – 8 January 2006) was a Scottish magician and computer programmer. He was notable for his invention of the Ghost Count or Elmsley Count, creating mathematical card tricks, and for publishing on the mathematics of playing card shuffling.
He began practising magic in 1946, as a teenager. He st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20power | In mathematics, a prime power is a positive integer which is a positive integer power of a single prime number.
For example: , and are prime powers, while
, and are not.
The sequence of prime powers begins:
2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 16, 17, 19, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 32, 37, 41, 43, 47, 49, 53, 59, 61, 64, 67, 71,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footedness | In human biology, footedness is the natural preference of one's left or right foot for various purposes. It is the foot equivalent of handedness. While purposes vary, such as applying the greatest force in a certain foot to complete the action of kick as opposed to stomping, footedness is most commonly associated with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20McGinnis | William McGinnis, Ph.D. is a molecular biologist and professor of biology at the University of California San Diego. At UC San Diego he has also served as the Chairman of the Department of Biology from July 1998 - June 1999, as Associate Dean of the Division of Natural Sciences from July 1, 1999 - June 2000, and as I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin%20Baur | Erwin Baur (16 April 1875, in Ichenheim, Grand Duchy of Baden – 2 December 1933) was a German geneticist and botanist. Baur worked primarily on plant genetics. He was director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research (since 1938 Erwin Baur-Institute). Baur is considered to be the father of plant virology. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Ephrussi | Boris Ephrussi (; 9 May 1901 – 2 May 1979), Professor of Genetics at the University of Paris, was a Russo-French geneticist.
Boris was born on 9 May 1901 into a Jewish family. His father, Samuel Osipovich Ephrussi, was a chemical engineer; his grandfather, Joseph Ephrusi (Efrusi), was the founder of a banking dynasty ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Campbell%20%28scientist%29 | Neil Allison Campbell (April 17, 1946 – October 21, 2004) was an American scientist known best for his textbook, Biology, first published in 1987 and repeatedly through many subsequent editions. The title is popular worldwide and has been used by over 700,000 students in both high school and college-level classes.
Edu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Curtin | Matt Curtin (born 1973) is a computer scientist and entrepreneur in Columbus, Ohio best known for his work in cryptography and firewall systems. He is the founder of Interhack Corporation, first faculty advisor of Open Source Club at The Ohio State University, and lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Eng... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mathematical%20identities | This article lists mathematical identities, that is, identically true relations holding in mathematics.
Bézout's identity (despite its usual name, it is not, properly speaking, an identity)
Binomial inverse theorem
Binomial identity
Brahmagupta–Fibonacci two-square identity
Candido's identity
Cassini and Catalan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20graph%20theory | In mathematics, topological graph theory is a branch of graph theory. It studies the embedding of graphs in surfaces, spatial embeddings of graphs, and graphs as topological spaces. It also studies immersions of graphs.
Embedding a graph in a surface means that we want to draw the graph on a surface, a sphere for exam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centro%20de%20Investigaci%C3%B3n%20en%20Matem%C3%A1ticas | The Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (lit. "Center for Research in Mathematics"), commonly known by its acronym in Spanish as CIMAT, is a North American scientific research institution based in the city of Guanajuato, in the homonym State of Guanajuato, in central Mexico, and was established in the year 1980. It ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalent%20weight | In chemistry, equivalent weight (also known as gram equivalent or equivalent mass) is the mass of one equivalent, that is the mass of a given substance which will combine with or displace a fixed quantity of another substance. The equivalent weight of an element is the mass which combines with or displaces 1.008 gram ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20bundle | In mathematics, a surface bundle is a bundle in which the fiber is a surface. When the base space is a circle the total space is three-dimensional and is often called a surface bundle over the circle.
See also
Mapping torus
Geometric topology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrobromide | In chemistry, a hydrobromide is an acid salt resulting, or regarded as resulting, from the reaction of hydrobromic acid with an organic base (e.g. an amine). The compounds are similar to hydrochlorides.
Some drugs are formulated as hydrobromides, e.g. eletriptan hydrobromide.
See also
Bromide, inorganic salts of hyd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20Sala | Oscar Sala (born March 26, 1922, in Milan, Italy, d. January 2, 2010 in São Paulo, Brazil), Italian-Brazilian nuclear physicist and important scientific leader, Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo.
Early life and education
Sala graduated in physics in 1943, at the then recently crea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20learning | Online learning may refer to study in home
Educational technology, or e-learning
E-learning (theory)
Distance education
Virtual school
Online learning in higher education
Massive open online courses
Online machine learning, in computer science and statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayme%20Tiomno | Jayme Tiomno (April 16, 1920 in Rio de Janeiro – January 12, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian experimental and theoretical physicist with interests in particle physics and general relativity. He was member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and a recipient of the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit. He was the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rio%20Schenberg | Mário Schenberg (var. Mário Schönberg, Mario Schonberg, Mário Schoenberg; July 2, 1914 – November 10, 1990) was a Brazilian electrical engineer, physicist, art critic and writer.
Early life
Schenberg was born in Recife, Brazil. His parents were Russian-Jews of German origin. From early on he showed remarkable ability... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleb%20Wataghin | Gleb Vassielievich Wataghin (November 3, 1899 in Birzula, Russian Empire – October 10, 1986 in Turin, Italy) was a Ukrainian-Italian theoretical and experimental physicist and a great scientific leader who gave a great impulse to the teaching and research on physics in two continents: in the University of São Paulo, Sã... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurwitz%20matrix | In mathematics, a Hurwitz matrix, or Routh–Hurwitz matrix, in engineering stability matrix, is a structured real square matrix constructed with coefficients of a real polynomial.
Hurwitz matrix and the Hurwitz stability criterion
Namely, given a real polynomial
the square matrix
is called Hurwitz matrix correspondi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20net | A flow net is a graphical representation of two-dimensional steady-state groundwater flow through aquifers.
Construction of a flow net is often used for solving groundwater flow problems where the geometry makes analytical solutions impractical. The method is often used in civil engineering, hydrogeology or soil mecha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cofinal%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a subset of a preordered set is said to be cofinal or frequent in if for every it is possible to find an element in that is "larger than " (explicitly, "larger than " means ).
Cofinal subsets are very important in the theory of directed sets and nets, where “cofinal subnet” is the appropriate ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hensel%27s%20lemma | In mathematics, Hensel's lemma, also known as Hensel's lifting lemma, named after Kurt Hensel, is a result in modular arithmetic, stating that if a univariate polynomial has a simple root modulo a prime number , then this root can be lifted to a unique root modulo any higher power of . More generally, if a polynomial f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20P.%20Stanley | Richard Peter Stanley (born June 23, 1944) is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 2000 to 2010, he was the Norman Levinson Professor of Applied Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1971 under the supervision of Gia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Devol | George Charles Devol Jr. (February 20, 1912 – August 11, 2011) was an American inventor, best known for creating Unimate, the first industrial robot. Devol's invention earned him the title "Grandfather of Robotics". The National Inventors Hall of Fame says, "Devol's patent for the first digitally operated programmabl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20angular%20momentum%20quantum%20number | In quantum mechanics, the total angular momentum quantum number parametrises the total angular momentum of a given particle, by combining its orbital angular momentum and its intrinsic angular momentum (i.e., its spin).
If s is the particle's spin angular momentum and ℓ its orbital angular momentum vector, the total a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%20parity | In physics, the C parity or charge parity is a multiplicative quantum number of some particles that describes their behavior under the symmetry operation of charge conjugation.
Charge conjugation changes the sign of all quantum charges (that is, additive quantum numbers), including the electrical charge, baryon number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough%20set | In computer science, a rough set, first described by Polish computer scientist Zdzisław I. Pawlak, is a formal approximation of a crisp set (i.e., conventional set) in terms of a pair of sets which give the lower and the upper approximation of the original set. In the standard version of rough set theory (Pawlak 1991),... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck%20group | In mathematics, the Grothendieck group, or group of differences, of a commutative monoid is a certain abelian group. This abelian group is constructed from in the most universal way, in the sense that any abelian group containing a homomorphic image of will also contain a homomorphic image of the Grothendieck group ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilocus%20sequence%20typing | Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) is a technique in molecular biology for the typing of multiple loci, using DNA sequences of internal fragments of multiple housekeeping genes to characterize isolates of microbial species.
The first MLST scheme to be developed was for Neisseria meningitidis, the causative agent of men... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headroom%20%28audio%20signal%20processing%29 | In digital and analog audio, headroom refers to the amount by which the signal-handling capabilities of an audio system can exceed a designated nominal level. Headroom can be thought of as a safety zone allowing transient audio peaks to exceed the nominal level without damaging the system or the audio signal, e.g., via... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto%20Salmeron | Roberto Aureliano Salmeron (June 16, 1922 – June 17, 2020) was a Brazilian electrical engineer and experimental nuclear physicist and an emeritus Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
Salmeron was born in São Paulo. He did his undergraduate studies in electrical engineering at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo%20Damy | Marcelo Damy de Sousa Santos (July 14, 1914 – November 29, 2009) was a Brazilian physicist.
Considered as one of the most important educators and researchers in physics in Brazil, along with Cesar Lattes, José Leite Lopes and Mario Schenberg, Damy was born in Campinas, São Paulo, in 1914, the son of Harald Egydio de S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic%20assignment%20problem | The quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is one of the fundamental combinatorial optimization problems in the branch of optimization or operations research in mathematics, from the category of the facilities location problems first introduced by Koopmans and Beckmann.
The problem models the following real-life problem:
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein%E2%80%93Sato%20polynomial | In mathematics, the Bernstein–Sato polynomial is a polynomial related to differential operators, introduced independently by and , . It is also known as the b-function, the b-polynomial, and the Bernstein polynomial, though it is not related to the Bernstein polynomials used in approximation theory. It has applicati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductive%20elimination | Reductive elimination is an elementary step in organometallic chemistry in which the oxidation state of the metal center decreases while forming a new covalent bond between two ligands. It is the microscopic reverse of oxidative addition, and is often the product-forming step in many catalytic processes. Since oxidativ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidative%20addition | Oxidative addition and reductive elimination are two important and related classes of reactions in organometallic chemistry. Oxidative addition is a process that increases both the oxidation state and coordination number of a metal centre. Oxidative addition is often a step in catalytic cycles, in conjunction with its ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCL | HCL may refer to:
Science and medicine
Hairy cell leukemia, an uncommon and slowly progressing B cell leukemia
Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory, from 1961 to 2002, a proton accelerator used for research and development
Hollow-cathode lamp, a spectral line source used in physics and chemistry
Hydrochloric acid, a solut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimer%20%28chemistry%29 | In chemistry, a trimer (; ) is a molecule or polyatomic anion formed by combination or association of three molecules or ions of the same substance. In technical jargon, a trimer is a kind of oligomer derived from three identical precursors often in competition with polymerization.
Examples
Alkyne trimerisation
In ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%20model | The actor model in computer science is a mathematical model of concurrent computation that treats an actor as the basic building block of concurrent computation. In response to a message it receives, an actor can: make local decisions, create more actors, send more messages, and determine how to respond to the next mes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete%20set%20of%20commuting%20observables | In quantum mechanics, a complete set of commuting observables (CSCO) is a set of commuting operators whose common eigenvectors can be used as a basis to express any quantum state. In the case of operators with discrete spectra, a CSCO is a set of commuting observables whose simultaneous eigenspaces span the Hilbert spa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bindu%20%28symbol%29 | Bindu () is a Sanskrit word meaning "point", "drop" or "dot".
Philosophy
In Hindu metaphysics, Bindu is considered the point at which creation begins and may become unity. It is also described as "the sacred symbol of the cosmos in its unmanifested state". Bindu is the point around which the mandala is created, repre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocimetry | Velocimetry is the measurement of the velocity of fluids. This is a task often taken for granted, and involves far more complex processes than one might expect. It is often used to solve fluid dynamics problems, study fluid networks, in industrial and process control applications, as well as in the creation of new kind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanders%20Mathematics%20Olympiad | The Flanders Mathematics Olympiad (; VWO) is a Flemish mathematics competition for students in grades 9 through 12. Two tiers of this competition exist: one for 9th- and 10th-graders (; JWO), and one for 11th- and 12th-graders. It is a feeder competition for the International Mathematical Olympiad.
History
The Olympi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VWO | VWO may refer to:
Vlaamse Wiskunde Olympiade, a Flemish mathematics competition
Voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs, a Dutch school system
Voluntary welfare organisation, charitable organisation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20invariant%20theory | In mathematics, geometric invariant theory (or GIT) is a method for constructing quotients by group actions in algebraic geometry, used to construct moduli spaces. It was developed by David Mumford in 1965, using ideas from the paper in classical invariant theory.
Geometric invariant theory studies an action of a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Planning%20Corporation | System Planning Corporation (SPC) is a Virginia-based corporation founded in 1970 that produces military electronics, such as flight control systems, radar, and Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance in airwarfare, cybersecurity, program management and research of advanced weapons systems, advanced space systems ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff%20Hare | Clifford Leroy Hare was a member of Auburn University’s first football team who went on to serve as chair of the Auburn Faculty Athletic Committee. Auburn’s football stadium, Jordan–Hare Stadium, is co-named for the longtime professor and dean of the School of Chemistry. He served as president of the Southern Conferenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ross%20Bradfield | John Ross Bradfield, (1899 – October 29, 1983) was a Canadian businessman who was involved in the development of the Canadian mining industry as President and CEO of Noranda.
Born in Morrisburg, Ontario, he graduated from McGill University in 1922 with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering. He was a field... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCB | MCB or mcb may refer to:
Science and technology
Molecular and Cellular Biology, a scientific journal
Monochlorobenzene, an organic solvent
Miniature circuit breaker, in electrical distribution boards
Manually Controlled Barriers, a type of level crossing in the UK
Organisations
Mauritius Commercial Bank, the ol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Kangaroo | Mathematical Kangaroo (also known as Kangaroo challenge, or jeu-concours Kangourou in French) is an international mathematics competition in over 77 countries. There are six levels of participation, ranging from grade 1 to grade 12. The competition is held annually on the third Thursday of March. The challenge consist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Achille%20Le%20Bel | Joseph Achille Le Bel (21 January 1847 in Pechelbronn – 6 August 1930, in Paris, France) was a French chemist. He is best known for his work in stereochemistry. Le Bel was educated at the École Polytechnique in Paris. In 1874 he announced his theory outlining the relationship between molecular structure and optical act... |
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