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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi%20Poletti%20%28mathematician%29 | Luigi Poletti (31 December 1864 – 10 March 1967) was an Italian mathematician and poet. He was born in Pontremoli, where he also died, age 102.
He attended the episcopal seminary in Potremoli, then the high school of Parma, graduated in Turin and started to study mathematics there. He did not finish and took a job in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Tryon | Edward P. Tryon (September 4, 1940 – December 11, 2019) was an American scientist and a professor emeritus of physics at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY). He was the first physicist to propose that our universe originated as a quantum fluctuation of the vacuum.
Early life
Tryon was born and rai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Space%20and%20Astronautical%20Science | , or ISAS, is a Japanese national research organization of astrophysics using rockets, astronomical satellites and interplanetary probes which played a major role in Japan's space development. Since 2003, it is a division of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
History
The ISAS originated as part of the Instit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20S.%20Shapiro | Harold Seymour Shapiro (2 April 1928 – 5 March 2021) was a professor of mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, best known for inventing the so-called Shapiro polynomials (also known as Golay–Shapiro polynomials or Rudin–Shapiro polynomials) and for work on quadrature domains.
His main r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiparallel | The term antiparallel may refer to:
Antiparallel (biochemistry), the orientation of adjacent molecules
Antiparallel (mathematics), a congruent but opposite relative orientation of two lines in relation to another line or angle
Antiparallel vectors, a pair of vectors pointed in opposite directions
Antiparallel (elec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobi%27s%20theorem | Jacobi's theorem can refer to:
Maximum power theorem, in electrical engineering
The result that the determinant of skew-symmetric matrices with odd size vanishes, see skew-symmetric matrix
Jacobi's four-square theorem, in number theory
Jacobi's theorem (geometry), on concurrent lines associated with any triangle
Jacobi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%20transform | In combinatorial mathematics, the Stirling transform of a sequence { an : n = 1, 2, 3, ... } of numbers is the sequence { bn : n = 1, 2, 3, ... } given by
where is the Stirling number of the second kind, also denoted S(n,k) (with a capital S), which is the number of partitions of a set of size n into k parts.
The in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrant%20object | In mathematics, specifically in homotopy theory in the context of a model category M, a fibrant object A of M is an object that has a fibration to the terminal object of the category.
Properties
The fibrant objects of a closed model category are characterized by having a right lifting property with respect to any tri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20About%20Chemistry | All About Chemistry is the third and most recent studio album by American rock band Semisonic, released on March 13, 2001, through MCA Records. With this release, the band failed, at least in America, to capitalize on the momentum it had generated with the song "Closing Time" from their previous album, Feeling Strangel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickson%20invariant | In mathematics, the Dickson invariant, named after Leonard Eugene Dickson, may mean:
The Dickson invariant of an element of the orthogonal group in characteristic 2
A modular invariant of a group studied by Dickson |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20method | The matrix method is a structural analysis method used as a fundamental principle in many applications in civil engineering.
The method is carried out, using either a stiffness matrix or a flexibility matrix.
See also
Direct stiffness method
Flexibility method
Structural analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Arnold%20Epstein | Richard Arnold Epstein (March 5, 1927 in Los Angeles, California – July 5, 2016), also known under the pseudonym E. P. Stein, was an American game theorist.
Education
He obtained his A.B. degree from UCLA in 1948. He then studied at the University of California Berkeley. He received his doctorate in physics, on the Bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Step-growth%20polymerization | In polymer chemistry, step-growth polymerization refers to a type of polymerization mechanism in which bi-functional or multifunctional monomers react to form first dimers, then trimers, longer oligomers and eventually long chain polymers. Many naturally-occurring and some synthetic polymers are produced by step-growth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine%20value | In chemistry, the iodine value (IV; also iodine absorption value, iodine number or iodine index) is the mass of iodine in grams that is consumed by 100 grams of a chemical substance. Iodine numbers are often used to determine the degree of unsaturation in fats, oils and waxes. In fatty acids, unsaturation occurs mainly... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%20value | In chemistry, acid value (AV, acid number, neutralization number or acidity) is a number used to quantify the acidity of a given chemical substance. It is the quantity of base (usually potassium hydroxide (KOH)), expressed as milligrams of KOH required to neutralize the acidic constituents in 1 gram of a sample.
The a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada/USA%20Mathcamp | Canada/USA Mathcamp is a five-week academic summer program for middle and high school students in mathematics.
Mathcamp was founded in 1993 by Dr. George Thomas, who believed that students interested in mathematics frequently lacked the resources and camaraderie to pursue their interest. Mira Bernstein became the dire... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Christoffer%20Georg%20Andr%C3%A6 | Carl Christopher Georg Andræ (14 October 1812 – 2 February 1893) was a Danish politician and mathematician. From 1842 until 1854, he was professor of mathematics and mechanics at the national military college. He was elected to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 1853. Andræ was by royal appointment a m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%20Club%203%3A%20Dub%20Edition | Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition is a 2005 racing video game developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games. It is the third installment in the Midnight Club series. Like previous installments in the series, the game is an arcade-style racer and focuses on wild, high-speed racing, rather than realistic phy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20of%20general%20relativity | When studying and formulating Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, various mathematical structures and techniques are utilized. The main tools used in this geometrical theory of gravitation are tensor fields defined on a Lorentzian manifold representing spacetime. This article is a general description of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded%20set%20%28topological%20vector%20space%29 | In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, a set in a topological vector space is called bounded or von Neumann bounded, if every neighborhood of the zero vector can be inflated to include the set.
A set that is not bounded is called unbounded.
Bounded sets are a natural way to define locally convex pol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20topology | In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics a polar topology, topology of -convergence or topology of uniform convergence on the sets of is a method to define locally convex topologies on the vector spaces of a pairing.
Preliminaries
A pairing is a triple consisting of two vector spaces over a field (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Maniatis | Tom Maniatis (born May 8, 1943), is an American professor of molecular and cellular biology. He is a professor at Columbia University, and serves as the Scientific Director and CEO of the New York Genome Center.
Education
Maniatis received B.A. and M.S. degrees from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and a PhD in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20topology | In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics a dual topology is a locally convex topology on a vector space that is induced by the continuous dual of the vector space, by means of the bilinear form (also called pairing) associated with the dual pair.
The different dual topologies for a given dual pair are c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau%E2%80%93Hopf%20theory%20of%20turbulence | In physics, the Landau–Hopf theory of turbulence, named for Lev Landau and Eberhard Hopf, was until the mid-1970s, the accepted theory of how a fluid flow becomes turbulent. It states that as a fluid flows faster, it develops more Fourier modes. At first, a few modes dominate, but under stronger conditions, it forces ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus%20%28journal%29 | ICARUS is a scientific journal dedicated to the field of planetary science. It is officially endorsed by the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS). The journal contains articles discussing the results of new research on astronomy, geology, meteorology, physics, chemistry, biology, and ot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackey%20topology | In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, the Mackey topology, named after George Mackey, is the finest topology for a topological vector space which still preserves the continuous dual. In other words the Mackey topology does not make linear functions continuous which were discontinuous in the default t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMI | PMI may stand for:
Computer science
Pointwise mutual information, in statistics
Privilege Management Infrastructure in cryptography
Product and manufacturing information in CAD systems
Companies
Philip Morris International, tobacco company
Picture Music International, former division of EMI
Precious Moments, In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20antenna | Smart antennas (also known as adaptive array antennas, digital antenna arrays, multiple antennas and, recently, MIMO) are antenna arrays with smart signal processing algorithms used to identify spatial signal signatures such as the direction of arrival (DOA) of the signal, and use them to calculate beamforming vectors ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Tour | James Mitchell Tour is an American chemist and nanotechnologist. He is a Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and Nanoengineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Education
Tour received degrees from Syracuse University (BS, 1981), Purdue University (PhD, 1986) and completed postdoctoral work a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correction | Correction may refer to:
A euphemism for punishment
Correction (newspaper), the posting of a notice of a mistake in a past issue of a newspaper
Correction (stock market), in financial markets, a short-term price decline
Correction (novel), a 1975 novel by Thomas Bernhard
a perturbation to an equation in perturbat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Penney%2C%20Baron%20Penney | William George Penney, Baron Penney, (24 June 19093 March 1991) was an English mathematician and professor of mathematical physics at the Imperial College London and later the rector of Imperial College London. He had a leading role in the development of High Explosive Research, Britain's clandestine nuclear programme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organopalladium%20chemistry | Organopalladium chemistry is a branch of organometallic chemistry that deals with organic palladium compounds and their reactions. Palladium is often used as a catalyst in the reduction of alkenes and alkynes with hydrogen. This process involves the formation of a palladium-carbon covalent bond. Palladium is also promi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borel%E2%80%93Carath%C3%A9odory%20theorem | In mathematics, the Borel–Carathéodory theorem in complex analysis shows that an analytic function may be bounded by its real part. It is an application of the maximum modulus principle. It is named for Émile Borel and Constantin Carathéodory.
Statement of the theorem
Let a function be analytic on a closed disc of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Churchill%20King | Henry Churchill King (1858–1934) was an American Congregationalist theologian, educator, and author.
Biography
Henry Churchill King was born in Hillsdale, Michigan on September 18, 1858.
At Oberlin College from 1884, he taught in mathematics, philosophy, and theology. From 1902 to 1927, he was president of the colle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardus | Pardus may refer to:
Saint Pardus, patron saint of Larino, Italy
Dan Pardus, an American NASCAR driver
Pardus (operating system), a Linux distribution developed in Turkey
Pardus (video game), graphical browser-based MMORPG
Pardus, Pennsylvania, a community in the United States
Biology
Panthera pardus, the scie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin%20group | In mathematics, the pin group is a certain subgroup of the Clifford algebra associated to a quadratic space. It maps 2-to-1 to the orthogonal group, just as the spin group maps 2-to-1 to the special orthogonal group.
In general the map from the Pin group to the orthogonal group is not surjective or a universal coverin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insertion%20%28genetics%29 | In genetics, an insertion (also called an insertion mutation) is the addition of one or more nucleotide base pairs into a DNA sequence. This can often happen in microsatellite regions due to the DNA polymerase slipping. Insertions can be anywhere in size from one base pair incorrectly inserted into a DNA sequence to a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling%20convention | In computer science, a calling convention is an implementation-level (low-level) scheme for how subroutines or functions receive parameters from their caller and how they return a result. When some code calls a function, design choices have been taken for where and how parameters are passed to that function, and where... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishiguro | Ishiguro (written: lit. "black stone") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Aya Ishiguro (石黒彩) (born 1978), a.k.a. Ayappe, singer
Hidé Ishiguro, Philosopher
Hideo Ishiguro (石黒英雄), Japanese actor
Hiroshi Ishiguro (石黒浩), professor at Osaka University who works in robotics
Kazuo Ishiguro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu%20Ta-You | Wu Ta-You () (27 September 1907 – 4 March 2000) was a Chinese physicist and writer who worked in the United States, Canada, mainland China and Taiwan. He has been called the Father of Chinese Physics.
Early life and education
Wu was born in Panyu, Guangzhou (Canton) in the last years of the Qing dynasty. In 1929 he t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel%20Sharkey | Noel Sharkey (born 14 December 1948) is a computer scientist born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is best known to the British public for his appearances on television as an expert on robotics; including the BBC Two television series Robot Wars and Techno Games, and co-hosting Bright Sparks for BBC Northern Ireland. H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montel%20space | In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, a Montel space, named after Paul Montel, is any topological vector space (TVS) in which an analog of Montel's theorem holds. Specifically, a Montel space is a barrelled topological vector space in which every closed and bounded subset is compact.
Definition
A ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Wetterhahn | Karen Elizabeth Wetterhahn (October 16, 1948 – June 8, 1997), also known as Karen Wetterhahn Jennette, was an American professor of chemistry at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, who specialized in toxic metal exposure. She died of mercury poisoning at the age of 48 due to accidental exposure to the extremely toxic org... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulation%20square | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a pulation square (also called a Doolittle diagram) is a diagram that is simultaneously a pullback square and a pushout square. It is a self-dual concept.
References
Adámek, Jiří, Herrlich, Horst, & Strecker, George E. (1990). Abstract and Concrete Categories (4.2MB PDF).... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar%20Becker | Oscar Becker (5 September 1889 – 13 November 1964) was a German philosopher, logician, mathematician, and historian of mathematics.
Early life
Becker was born in Leipzig, where he studied mathematics. His dissertation under Otto Hölder and Karl Rohn (1914) was On the Decomposition of Polygons in non-intersecting trian... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20grammar | In computer science, a linear grammar is a context-free grammar that has at most one nonterminal in the right-hand side of each of its productions.
A linear language is a language generated by some linear grammar.
Example
An example of a linear grammar is G with N = {S}, Σ = {a, b}, P with start symbol S and rules
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre%20Changeux | Jean-Pierre Changeux (; born 6 April 1936) is a French neuroscientist known for his research in several fields of biology, from the structure and function of proteins (with a focus on the allosteric proteins), to the early development of the nervous system up to cognitive functions. Although being famous in biological ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant%20polynomial | In mathematics, an invariant polynomial is a polynomial that is invariant under a group acting on a vector space . Therefore, is a -invariant polynomial if
for all and .
Cases of particular importance are for Γ a finite group (in the theory of Molien series, in particular), a compact group, a Lie group or algebra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-structure | In the branch of mathematics called homological algebra, a t-structure is a way to axiomatize the properties of an abelian subcategory of a derived category. A t-structure on consists of two subcategories of a triangulated category or stable infinity category which abstract the idea of complexes whose cohomology van... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-pairs%20testing | In computer science, all-pairs testing or pairwise testing is a combinatorial method of software testing that, for each pair of input parameters to a system (typically, a software algorithm), tests all possible discrete combinations of those parameters. Using carefully chosen test vectors, this can be done much faster ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo%20Pinto%20%28novelist%29 | Ricardo Pinto (born 1961 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a computer game programmer and fantasy novelist.
Early life and gaming career
Pinto's family moved to London when he was six, and then to Dundee in Scotland. In 1979, he commenced a degree in Mathematics at the University of Dundee. In 1983, Pinto moved to London to wor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird%20%28Oasis%20song%29 | "Songbird" is a song by English rock band Oasis from their fifth studio album, Heathen Chemistry (2002), and is the first single by Oasis written by vocalist Liam Gallagher. Released on 3 February 2003, the song reached number three on the UK Singles Chart, number two on the Canadian Singles Chart, and the top 10 in Ir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E8%20lattice | In mathematics, the E lattice is a special lattice in R. It can be characterized as the unique positive-definite, even, unimodular lattice of rank 8. The name derives from the fact that it is the root lattice of the E root system.
The norm of the E lattice (divided by 2) is a positive definite even unimodular quadrati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav%20Bischof | Karl Gustav Bischof (18 January 1792 – 30 November 1870) was a German chemist, born in Nuremberg. He studied at Erlangen where he became a university lecturer ("Privatdozent") in 1815. In 1819 he was appointed to the position of an extra-Ordinary Professor of Chemistry at Bonn, and in 1822 to that of a full professor. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20linear%20operator | In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, a continuous linear operator or continuous linear mapping is a continuous linear transformation between topological vector spaces.
An operator between two normed spaces is a bounded linear operator if and only if it is a continuous linear operator.
Continuous l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Magee%20%28archbishop%20of%20Dublin%29 | William Magee (18 March 176618 August 1831) was an Irish academic and Church of Ireland clergyman. He taught at Trinity College Dublin, serving as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics (1800–1811), was Bishop of Raphoe (1819–1822) and then Archbishop of Dublin until his death.
Biography
He was born at Enniskillen,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvia%20Ga%C5%A1parovi%C4%8Dov%C3%A1 | Silvia Gašparovičová née Beníková (born 13 January 1941) was the First Lady of Slovakia from 2004 to 2014 as wife of former President Ivan Gašparovič.
Early life
Gašparovičová attended the Slovak Technical University from 1960 until 1965 where she studied civil engineering and also from 1971 to 1973 she studied econo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%20Siwiec | Marek Maciej Siwiec (born 13 March 1955 in Piekary Slaskie) is a Polish politician and journalist.
Biography
Marek Maciej Siwiec studied physics at the AGH University of Science and Technology (1980) and completed Post-Diploma Study of Journalism in 1989at the Academy of Social Sciences – Centre for Education of the F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric%20bilinear%20form | In mathematics, a symmetric bilinear form on a vector space is a bilinear map from two copies of the vector space to the field of scalars such that the order of the two vectors does not affect the value of the map. In other words, it is a bilinear function that maps every pair of elements of the vector space to the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Whitney%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Arthur Whitney (born October 20, 1957) is a Canadian computer scientist most notable for developing three programming languages inspired by APL: A+, k, and q, and for co-founding the U.S. companies Kx Systems and Shakti Software.
Career
Whitney studied pure mathematics at the graduate level at the University of Toron... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bornological%20space | In mathematics, particularly in functional analysis, a bornological space is a type of space which, in some sense, possesses the minimum amount of structure needed to address questions of boundedness of sets and linear maps, in the same way that a topological space possesses the minimum amount of structure needed to ad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-MeO-MiPT | 5-MeO-MiPT is a psychedelic and hallucinogenic drug, used by some as an entheogen. It has structural and pharmacodynamic properties similar to the drugs 5-MeO-DiPT, DiPT, and MiPT. It is commonly used as a "substitute" for 5-MeO-DiPT because of the very similar structure and effects.
Chemistry
5-MeO-MiPT is in a clas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-MeO-DALT | 5-MeO-DALT or N,N-di allyl-5-methoxy tryptamine is a psychedelic tryptamine first synthesized by Alexander Shulgin.
Chemistry
The full name of the chemical is N-allyl-N-[2-(5-methoxy-1H-indol-3-yl)ethyl] prop-2-en-1- amine. It is related to the compounds 5-MeO-DPT and DALT.
In April 2020, Chadeayne et al. solved the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackey%20space | In mathematics, particularly in functional analysis, a Mackey space is a locally convex topological vector space X such that the topology of X coincides with the Mackey topology τ(X,X′), the finest topology which still preserves the continuous dual. They are named after George Mackey.
Examples
Examples of locally con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studia%20Mathematica | Studia Mathematica is a triannual peer-reviewed scientific journal of mathematics published by the Polish Academy of Sciences. Papers are written in English, French, German, or Russian, primarily covering functional analysis, abstract methods of mathematical analysis, and probability theory. The editor-in-chief is Adam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Gr%C3%BCnberg | Peter Andreas Grünberg (; 18 May 1939 – 7 April 2018) was a German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Albert Fert of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disk drives.
Life and career
Grünberg was born in Pilsen, Bohemia—which at the time was in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Gundlach | Juan Cristóbal Gundlach (July 17, 1810 - March 14, 1896) was a German-Cuban naturalist and taxonomist.
Biography
Gundlach graduated from Marburg University, where his father was professor of physics, as Doctor of Philosophy in 1837. In 1839, he left Europe to make collections on the Caribbean island of Cuba.
During a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halohydrin | In organic chemistry a halohydrin (also a haloalcohol or β-halo alcohol) is a functional group in which a halogen and a hydroxyl are bonded to adjacent carbon atoms, which otherwise bear only hydrogen or hydrocarbyl groups (e.g. 2-chloroethanol, 3-chloropropane-1,2-diol). The term only applies to saturated motifs, as s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicinal%20%28chemistry%29 | In chemistry the descriptor vicinal (from Latin vicinus = neighbor), abbreviated vic, is a descriptor that identifies two functional groups as bonded to two adjacent carbon atoms (i.e., in a 1,2-relationship).
Relation of atoms in a molecule
For example, the molecule 2,3-dibromobutane carries two vicinal bromine atoms... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Society%20for%20History%20and%20Philosophy%20of%20Mathematics | The Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics (CSHPM) is dedicated to the study of the history and philosophy of mathematics in Canada. It was proposed by Kenneth O. May, in conjunction with the journal Historia Mathematica, and was founded in 1974.
See also
Canadian Mathematical Society
List of Mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Weiss%20%28nanoscientist%29 | Paul S. Weiss (born October 10, 1959) is a leading American nanoscientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds numerous positions, including UC Presidential Chair, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Bioengineering, and of Materials Science and Engineering, and founder and editor-i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefetching | Prefetching in computer science is a technique for speeding up fetch operations by beginning a fetch operation whose result is expected to be needed soon. Usually this is before it is known to be needed, so there is a risk of wasting time by prefetching data that will not be used. The technique can be applied in seve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Wien | Max Karl Werner Wien (; 25 December 1866 – 22 February 1938) was a German physicist and the director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Jena. He was born in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), the son of the co-owner of the well-known Castell grain company, Otto Wien. He was a cousin of Nobel ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membership%20function%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, the membership function of a fuzzy set is a generalization of the indicator function for classical sets. In fuzzy logic, it represents the degree of truth as an extension of valuation. Degrees of truth are often confused with probabilities, although they are conceptually distinct, because fuzzy truth r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative%20biology | Comparative biology uses natural variation and disparity to understand the patterns of life at all levels—from genes to communities—and the critical role of organisms in ecosystems. Comparative biology is a cross-lineage approach to understanding the phylogenetic history of individuals or higher taxa and the mechanism... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%20of%20Steel%2C%20Woman%20of%20Kleenex | "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" is a 1969 essay in which science fiction author Larry Niven details the problems that Superman would face in sexual intercourse and reproduction with a human woman, using arguments based on humorous reconciliation between physics, biology, and the abilities of Kryptonians as presented i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20structure | In mathematics, a structure is a set endowed with some additional features on the set (e.g. an operation, relation, metric, or topology). Often, the additional features are attached or related to the set, so as to provide it with some additional meaning or significance.
A partial list of possible structures are measur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmobiology | Historically, the term 'Kosmobiologie' was used by the German medical astrologer Friedrich Feerhow and Swiss statistician Karl Krafft in a more general sense "to designate that branch of astrology working on scientific foundations and keyed to the natural sciences".
The term cosmobiology was popularized in English a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/221%20%28number%29 | 221 (two hundred [and] twenty-one) is the natural number following 220 and preceding 222.
In mathematics
Its factorization as 13 × 17 makes 221 the product of two consecutive prime numbers, the sixth smallest such product.
221 is a centered square number.
In other fields
In Texas hold 'em, the probability of being d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus%20Hasselmann | Klaus Ferdinand Hasselmann (, born 25 October 1931) is a German oceanographer and climate modeller. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hamburg and former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Syukuro Manabe and Giorgio Parisi.
Hasse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-Acetoxy-DiPT | 4-Acetoxy-DiPT (4-acetoxy-N,N-diisopropyltryptamine, ipracetin) is a synthetic psychedelic tryptamine. It is relatively uncommon and has only a short history of human use.
Chemistry
4-AcO-DiPT is a tryptamine structurally similar to 4-HO-DiPT and psilocin.
Drug prohibition laws
Denmark
4-AcO-DiPT is added to the lis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus%20problem | In computer science and mathematics, the Josephus problem (or Josephus permutation) is a theoretical problem related to a certain counting-out game. Such games are used to pick out a person from a group, e.g. eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
In the particular counting-out game that gives rise to the Josephus problem, a number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng%20Jun | Zheng Jun (; born 6 November 1967) is a Chinese rock singer-songwriter. Originally from Xi'an, he attended Hangzhou Institute of Electrical Engineering (renamed Hangzhou Dianzi University). His first album, Naked (), was released by Red Star Productions in 1994, achieving immediate success. He went on to release Third ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Rosenzweig | Michael L. Rosenzweig (born 1941) is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona who has developed and popularized the concept of Reconciliation ecology. He received his Ph.D in zoology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1966 and has gone on to hold a number of positions around the Un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Bollacker | Kurt Bollacker is an American computer scientist with a research background in the areas of machine learning, digital libraries, semantic networks, and electro-cardiographic modeling.
He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. Bollacker spent time as a biomedical research engin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot%20Valenstein | Elliot Spiro Valenstein (December 9, 1923 – January 12, 2023) was an American psychologist who was professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Michigan. He is a noted authority on brain stimulation and psychosurgery.
Biography
Valenstein was born in New York City on December 9, 1923, to Louis and Hel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacker%20process | The Wacker process or the Hoechst-Wacker process (named after the chemical companies of the same name) refers to the oxidation of ethylene to acetaldehyde in the presence of palladium(II) chloride and copper(II) chloride as the catalyst. This chemical reaction was one of the first homogeneous catalysis with organopalla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20bounded%20automaton | In computer science, a linear bounded automaton (plural linear bounded automata, abbreviated LBA) is a restricted form of Turing machine.
Operation
A linear bounded automaton is a Turing machine that satisfies the following three conditions:
Its input alphabet includes two special symbols, serving as left and right... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton%20%28category%20theory%29 | In mathematics, a skeleton of a category is a subcategory that, roughly speaking, does not contain any extraneous isomorphisms. In a certain sense, the skeleton of a category is the "smallest" equivalent category, which captures all "categorical properties" of the original. In fact, two categories are equivalent if and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C2-Wittig%20rearrangement | A 1,2-Wittig rearrangement is a categorization of chemical reactions in organic chemistry, and consists of a 1,2-rearrangement of an ether with an alkyllithium compound. The reaction is named for Nobel Prize winning chemist Georg Wittig.
The intermediate is an alkoxy lithium salt, and the final product an alcohol. Whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkivoc | Arkivoc (Archive for Organic Chemistry) is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering all aspects of organic chemistry. It is published by the non-profit organization Arkat USA, which was established in 2000 through a personal donation from Alan R. Katritzky and Linde Katritzky. Arkivoc is the primary publ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom%20generator | In theoretical computer science and cryptography, a pseudorandom generator (PRG) for a class of statistical tests is a deterministic procedure that maps a random seed to a longer pseudorandom string such that no statistical test in the class can distinguish between the output of the generator and the uniform distributi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAP | Jap is a slur directed towards Japanese people.
Jap or JAP may refer to:
Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport, Paramaribo, Suriname, local name
Journal of Applied Physics
Java Anon Proxy for anonymous Web browsing
Juntas de Abastecimientos y Precios, rationing boards in Chile under president Allende
Juventude... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%20Hoppe-Seyler | Ernst Felix Immanuel Hoppe-Seyler (né Felix Hoppe; 26 December 1825 – 10 August 1895) was a German physiologist and chemist, and the principal founder of the disciplines of biochemistry and molecular biology. He had discovered Yeast nucleic acid which is now called RNA in his attempts to follow up and confirm Miescher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pariah | Pariah may refer to:
A member of the Paraiyar caste in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu
Pariah state, a country whose behavior does not conform to norms
Pariah State, a restaurant in the City of Victoria Falls
Outcast (person)
Science and mathematics
Pariah dog, a type of semi-feral dog
Pariah (fish), a genus of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epithet%20%28disambiguation%29 | An epithet is a name. In taxonomic nomenclature, it is a word or phrase (epithet) in the name of an organism. It can be:
Epithet may also refer to:
a specific epithet:
the second part of a species name in binomial nomenclature in any branch of biology
in botany, the second part of a botanical name
Specific epithet ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dohn%C3%A1nyi%20family | Dohnányi () is a Hungarian family name belonging to a notable family of politicians and musicians related to composer Ernő Dohnányi.
Frederick Dohnányi (; 1843–1909), Hungarian professor of mathematics and amateur cellist; father of Ernst
Ernst von Dohnányi (; 1877–1960), Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer
Hans... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna%20Budwig | Johanna Budwig (1908 – 2003) was a German biochemist, alternative cancer treatment advocate and writer. Budwig was a pharmacist and held doctorate degrees in physics and chemistry. Based on her research on fatty acids she developed a lacto-vegetarian diet that she believed was useful in the treatment of cancer. There i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas%20School%20for%20Mathematics%2C%20Sciences%2C%20and%20the%20Arts | The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts (ASMSA) is a public residential high school located in Hot Springs, Arkansas that serves sophomores, juniors, and seniors. It is a part of the University of Arkansas administrative system and a member of the NCSSSMST. The school was originally known as The Ark... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frobenius%20algebra | In mathematics, especially in the fields of representation theory and module theory, a Frobenius algebra is a finite-dimensional unital associative algebra with a special kind of bilinear form which gives the algebras particularly nice duality theories. Frobenius algebras began to be studied in the 1930s by Richard Br... |
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