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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard%20von%20Lindenau
Baron Bernhard August von Lindenau (11 June 1779 – 21 May 1854) was a German lawyer, astronomer, politician, and art collector. Lindenau was born in Altenburg, the son of Johann August Lindenau, a regional administrator (Landschaftsdirektor). In 1793, Lindeau began studying law and mathematics at Leipzig, and beginnin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Thompson%20%28naturalist%29
William Thompson (2 December 1805 – 17 February 1852) was an Irish naturalist celebrated for his founding studies of the natural history of Ireland, especially in ornithology and marine biology. Thompson published numerous notes on the distribution, breeding, eggs, habitat, song, plumage, behaviour, nesting and food o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter%20creation
Even restricting the discussion to physics, scientists do not have a unique definition of what matter is. In the currently known particle physics, summarised by the standard model of elementary particles and interactions, it is possible to distinguish in an absolute sense particles of matter and particles of antimatter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20conversion%20%28chemistry%29
Internal conversion is a transition from a higher to a lower electronic state in a molecule or atom. It is sometimes called "radiationless de-excitation", because no photons are emitted. It differs from intersystem crossing in that, while both are radiationless methods of de-excitation, the molecular spin state for int...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%20Toepler
August Joseph Ignaz Toepler (7 September 1836 – 6 March 1912) was a German chemist and physicist known for his experiments in electrostatics. Biography August Toepler was born on 7 September 1836. He studied chemistry at the Gewerbe-Institut Berlin (1855–1858) and graduated from the University of Jena in 1860. Later ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20Today
Physics Today is the membership magazine of the American Institute of Physics. First published in May 1948, it is issued on a monthly schedule, and is provided to the members of ten physics societies, including the American Physical Society. It is also available to non-members as a paid annual subscription. The magazi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth%28III%29%20oxide
Bismuth(III) oxide is perhaps the most industrially important compound of bismuth. It is also a common starting point for bismuth chemistry. It is found naturally as the mineral bismite (monoclinic) and sphaerobismoite (tetragonal, much more rare), but it is usually obtained as a by-product of the smelting of copper an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra%20of%20physical%20space
In physics, the algebra of physical space (APS) is the use of the Clifford or geometric algebra Cl3,0(R) of the three-dimensional Euclidean space as a model for (3+1)-dimensional spacetime, representing a point in spacetime via a paravector (3-dimensional vector plus a 1-dimensional scalar). The Clifford algebra Cl3,0...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Swimme
Brian Thomas Swimme (born 1950) is a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, in San Francisco, where he teaches evolutionary cosmology to graduate students in the philosophy, cosmology, and consciousness program. He received his Ph.D. (1978) from the department of mathematics at the University of Ore...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXperimental%20Computing%20Facility
Founded in 1986, the eXperimental Computing Facility (XCF) is an undergraduate computing-interest organization at University of California, Berkeley. The "Experimental" description was given in contrast to the Open Computing Facility and the Computer Science Undergraduate Association, which support most of the general...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natta%20projection
In chemistry, the Natta projection (named for Italian chemist Giulio Natta) is a way to depict molecules with complete stereochemistry in two dimensions in a skeletal formula. In a hydrocarbon molecule with all carbon atoms making up the backbone in a tetrahedral molecular geometry, the zigzag backbone is in the paper ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl%20polymer
In polymer chemistry, vinyl polymers are a group of polymers derived from substituted vinyl () monomers. Their backbone is an extended alkane chain . In popular usage, "vinyl" refers only to polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Examples Vinyl polymers are the most common type of plastic. Important examples can be distinguished ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20McLurkin
James McLurkin (born 1972) is a Senior Hardware Engineer at Google. Previously, he was an engineering assistant professor at Rice University specializing in swarm robotics. In 2005, he appeared on an episode of PBS' Nova and is a winner of the 2003 Lemelson-MIT Prize. Early life McLurkin was born in 1972 in Baldwin, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/210%20%28number%29
210 (two hundred [and] ten) is the natural number following 209 and preceding 211. In mathematics 210 is a composite number, an abundant number, Harshad number, and the product of the first four prime numbers (2, 3, 5, and 7), and thus a primorial. It is also the least common multiple of these four prime numbers. It...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumbate
In chemistry, a plumbate often refers to compounds that can be viewed as derivatives of the hypothetical anion. The term also refers to any anion of lead or any salt thereof. So the term is vague and somewhat archaic. Examples Halides Salts of , , , etc. are labeled as iodoplumbates. Lead perovskite semiconductors a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin%28IV%29%20oxide
Tin(IV) oxide, also known as stannic oxide, is the inorganic compound with the formula SnO2. The mineral form of SnO2 is called cassiterite, and this is the main ore of tin. With many other names, this oxide of tin is an important material in tin chemistry. It is a colourless, diamagnetic, amphoteric solid. Structure ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20W.%20Lee
Benjamin Whisoh Lee (; January 1, 1935 – June 16, 1977), or Ben Lee, was a Korean- American theoretical physicist. His work in theoretical particle physics exerted great influence on the development of the standard model in the late 20th century, especially on the renormalization of the electro-weak model and gauge the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-dimensional%20cross%20product
In mathematics, the seven-dimensional cross product is a bilinear operation on vectors in seven-dimensional Euclidean space. It assigns to any two vectors a, b in a vector also in . Like the cross product in three dimensions, the seven-dimensional product is anticommutative and is orthogonal both to a and to b. Unli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadamard%20factorization%20theorem
In mathematics, and particularly in the field of complex analysis, the Hadamard factorization theorem asserts that every entire function with finite order can be represented as a product involving its zeroes and an exponential of a polynomial. It is named for Jacques Hadamard. The theorem may be viewed as an extensi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bochner%27s%20theorem
In mathematics, Bochner's theorem (named for Salomon Bochner) characterizes the Fourier transform of a positive finite Borel measure on the real line. More generally in harmonic analysis, Bochner's theorem asserts that under Fourier transform a continuous positive-definite function on a locally compact abelian group co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20bundle
In differential geometry, a field of mathematics, a normal bundle is a particular kind of vector bundle, complementary to the tangent bundle, and coming from an embedding (or immersion). Definition Riemannian manifold Let be a Riemannian manifold, and a Riemannian submanifold. Define, for a given , a vector to be ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL%20%28robot%29
The Hybrid Assistive Limb (also known as HAL) is a powered exoskeleton suit developed by Japan's Tsukuba University and the robotics company Cyberdyne. It is designed to support and expand the physical capabilities of its users, particularly people with physical disabilities. There are two primary versions of the syste...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Logston
Anne Logston (born February 15, 1962) is an American author of fantasy/adventure novels. She was born in Indiana and attended the University of Indianapolis, where she received an associate degree in computer science and a B.A. in English. She worked as a legal secretary. Works Shadow series These are about the "elv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surroundings
Surroundings are the area around a given physical or geographical point or place. The exact definition depends on the field. Surroundings can also be used in geography (when it is more precisely known as vicinity, or vicinage) and mathematics, as well as philosophy, with the literal or metaphorically extended definiti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Popplestone
Robin John Popplestone (9 December 1938 in Bristol – 14 April 2004 in Glasgow) was a pioneer in the fields of machine intelligence and robotics. He is known for developing the COWSEL and POP programming languages, and for his work on Freddy II with Pat Ambler at the University of Edinburgh Artificial Intelligence labor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0
C0 or C00 has several uses including: C0, the IATA code for Centralwings airline C0 and C1 control codes a CPU power state in the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface an alternate name for crt0, a library used in the startup of a C program in mathematics: the differentiability class C0 a C0-semigroup, a str...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBW
PBW may refer to: Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington Stock Exchange Peanut Butter Wolf, American hip hop record producer Proton beam writing, a lithography process Play by Web, Play-by-post role-playing game Prosopography of the Byzantine World, a prosopographical database project Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt theorem,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeuti%27s%20conjecture
In mathematics, Takeuti's conjecture is the conjecture of Gaisi Takeuti that a sequent formalisation of second-order logic has cut-elimination (Takeuti 1953). It was settled positively: By Tait, using a semantic technique for proving cut-elimination, based on work by Schütte (Tait 1966); Independently by Prawitz (Pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioorthogonal%20chemical%20reporter
In chemical biology, bioorthogonal chemical reporter is a non-native chemical functionality that is introduced into the naturally occurring biomolecules of a living system, generally through metabolic or protein engineering. These functional groups are subsequently utilized for tagging and visualizing biomolecules. Jen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphex%20Systems
Aphex is a brand of audio signal processing equipment. Aphex Systems was founded in 1975 in Massachusetts. The company changed its name to Aphex in 2010. About Aphex Formerly Aphex Systems, the company was acquired in mid-2015 by Freedman Electronics, parent company of Røde Microphones. Aphex moved in 2011 to Burbank...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer%20science
Polymer science or macromolecular science is a subfield of materials science concerned with polymers, primarily synthetic polymers such as plastics and elastomers. The field of polymer science includes researchers in multiple disciplines including chemistry, physics, and engineering. Subdisciplines This science compr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%20Carroll
Gabriel Drew Carroll (born December 24, 1982) is a Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto. He was born to tech industry worker parents in Oakland. He graduated from Harvard University with B.A. in mathematics and linguistics in 2005 and received his doctorate in economics from MIT in 2012. He was recognize...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromatic%20sulfonation
In organic chemistry, aromatic sulfonation is an organic reaction in which a hydrogen atom on an arene is replaced by a sulfonic acid () functional group in an electrophilic aromatic substitution. Aryl sulfonic acids are used as detergents, dye, and drugs. Stoichiometry and mechanism Typical conditions involve heatin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20W.%20Marseille
Walter William Marseille (born 1901) was a German-American psychoanalyst and graphologist. In 1948 he corresponded with Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell, advocating world government. Life Walter Marseille was the son of Gustav Marseille, a leader in the progressive education movement. He studied psychology, mathem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance
Abundance may refer to: In science and technology Abundance (economics), the opposite of scarcities Abundance (ecology), the relative representation of a species in a community Abundance (programming language), a Forth-like computer programming language Abundance and abundancy index are related but distinct notion...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20things%20named%20after%20Leonhard%20Euler
In mathematics and physics, many topics are named in honor of Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), who made many important discoveries and innovations. Many of these items named after Euler include their own unique function, equation, formula, identity, number (single or sequence), or other mathematical enti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangle
Tangle may refer to: Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics The Tangle is the name of the ledger, a directed acyclic graph, used for the cryptocurrency IOTA Tangle (mathematics), a topological object Natural sciences & medicine Sea tangle, another name for kelp Neurofibrillary tangles, which occur in Alzhei...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%20dioxide
Lead(IV) oxide, commonly known as lead dioxide, is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula . It is an oxide where lead is in an oxidation state of +4. It is a dark-brown solid which is insoluble in water. It exists in two crystalline forms. It has several important applications in electrochemistry, in particula...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihedral%20group%20of%20order%206
In mathematics, D3 (sometimes alternatively denoted by D6) is the dihedral group of degree 3 and order 6. It equals the symmetric group S3. It is also the smallest non-abelian group. This page illustrates many group concepts using this group as example. Symmetry groups The dihedral group D3 is the symmetry group of a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20fighter%20maneuvers
Basic fighter maneuvers (BFM) are tactical movements performed by fighter aircraft during air combat maneuvering (ACM, also called dogfighting), to gain a positional advantage over the opponent. BFM combines the fundamentals of aerodynamic flight and the geometry of pursuit, with the physics of managing the aircraft's ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert%20Riedl
Rupert Riedl (22 February 1925 – 18 September 2005) was an Austrian zoologist. Biography Riedl was a scientist with broad interests, whose influence in epistemology grounded in evolutionary theory was notable, although less in English-speaking circles than in German or even Spanish speaking ones. His 1984 work, Biolog...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Henry%20Michell
John Henry Michell, FRS (26 October 1863 – 3 February 1940) was an Australian mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Melbourne. Early life Michell was the son of John Michell (pronounced Mitchell), a miner, and his wife Grace, née Rowse, and was born in Maldon, Victoria. His parents had migrat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikrant%20Bhargava
Vikrant Bhargava (विक्रान्त भार्गव; born 14 December 1972) is an Indian-born British businessman, and the co-founder and former marketing director of online casino operator PartyGaming. Early life Bhargava is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, and also holds a bachelor's degree in Technology in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matmatah
Matmatah is a French rock band, established in 1995 in Brest, Brittany. History The band was established in 1995 when Tristan Nihouarn, who at the time was a student pursuing study of Advanced Mathematics in Brest (western Brittany, France), met Cédric Floc'h who was studying electric engineering in the same city, wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20education%20in%20New%20York
Mathematics education in New York in regard to both content and teaching method can vary depending on the type of school a person attends. Private school math education varies between schools whereas New York has statewide public school requirements where standardized tests are used to determine if the teaching method ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Kay
Paul Kay (born 1934 in New York) is an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, United States. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of Anthropology, transferring to the Department of Linguistics in 1982 and now working at the International Computer Science I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mesons
This list is of all known and predicted scalar, pseudoscalar and vector mesons. See list of particles for a more detailed list of particles found in particle physics. This article contains a list of mesons, unstable subatomic particles composed of one quark and one antiquark. They are part of the hadron particle famil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20chromatography%E2%80%93mass%20spectrometry
Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) is an analytical chemistry technique that combines the physical separation capabilities of liquid chromatography (or HPLC) with the mass analysis capabilities of mass spectrometry (MS). Coupled chromatography - MS systems are popular in chemical analysis because the indiv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Berthelot
Pierre Berthelot (; born 1943) is a mathematician at the University of Rennes. He developed crystalline cohomology and rigid cohomology. Publications Berthelot, Pierre Cohomologie cristalline des schémas de caractéristique p>0. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 407. Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1974. 604 pp. Be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV%20disease%20progression%20rates
Following infection with HIV-1, the rate of clinical disease progression varies between individuals. Factors such as host susceptibility, genetics and immune function, health care and co-infections as well as viral genetic variability may affect the rate of progression to the point of needing to take medication in orde...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glayde%20Whitney
Glayde D. Whitney (1939 – 8 January 2002) was an American behavioral geneticist and psychologist. He was professor at Florida State University. Beyond his work into the genetics of sensory system function in mice, in his later life he supported David Duke as well as research into race and intelligence and eugenics. Bi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devolution%20%28biology%29
Devolution, de-evolution, or backward evolution (not to be confused with dysgenics) is the notion that species can revert to supposedly more primitive forms over time. The concept relates to the idea that evolution has a purpose (teleology) and is progressive (orthogenesis), for example that feet might be better than h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20normal%20curve
In mathematics, the rational normal curve is a smooth, rational curve of degree in projective n-space . It is a simple example of a projective variety; formally, it is the Veronese variety when the domain is the projective line. For it is the plane conic and for it is the twisted cubic. The term "normal" refers to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20surface
In algebraic geometry, a branch of mathematics, a rational surface is a surface birationally equivalent to the projective plane, or in other words a rational variety of dimension two. Rational surfaces are the simplest of the 10 or so classes of surface in the Enriques–Kodaira classification of complex surfaces, and we...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual%20jealousy
Sexual jealousy is a special form of jealousy in sexual relationships, based on suspected or imminent sexual infidelity. The concept is studied in the field of evolutionary psychology. Basis Evolutionary psychologists have suggested that there is a gender difference in sexual jealousy, driven by men and women's diffe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20congruence
In mathematics, two square matrices A and B over a field are called congruent if there exists an invertible matrix P over the same field such that PTAP = B where "T" denotes the matrix transpose. Matrix congruence is an equivalence relation. Matrix congruence arises when considering the effect of change of basis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%20Mouton
Gabriel Mouton (1618 – 28 September 1694) was a French abbot and scientist. He was a doctor of theology from Lyon, but was also interested in mathematics and astronomy. His 1670 book, the Observationes diametrorum solis et lunae apparentium, proposed a natural standard of length based on the circumference of the Earth,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioconductor
Bioconductor is a free, open source and open development software project for the analysis and comprehension of genomic data generated by wet lab experiments in molecular biology. Bioconductor is based primarily on the statistical R programming language, but does contain contributions in other programming languages. I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%20queue
In computer science, an input queue is a collection of processes in storage that are waiting to be brought into memory to run a program. Input queues are mainly used in Operating System Scheduling which is a technique for distributing resources among processes. Input queues not only apply to operating systems (OS), but...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentiality%20and%20actuality
In philosophy, potentiality and actuality are a pair of closely connected principles which Aristotle used to analyze motion, causality, ethics, and physiology in his Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, and De Anima. The concept of potentiality, in this context, generally refers to any "possibility" that a thing ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering%20cybernetics
Engineering cybernetics also known as technical cybernetics or cybernetic engineering, is the branch of cybernetics concerned with applications in engineering, in fields such as control engineering and robotics. History Qian Xuesen (Hsue-Shen Tsien) defined engineering cybernetics as a theoretical field of "engineerin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard%20Preim
Bernhard Preim (born 1969) is a specialist in human–computer interface design as well as in visual computing for medicine. He is currently professor of visualization at University of Magdeburg, Germany. Preim received the diploma in computer science in 1994 (minor in mathematics) and a PhD in 1998 from the Otto-von-G...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lives%20of%20a%20Cell%3A%20Notes%20of%20a%20Biology%20Watcher
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974) is collection of 29 essays written by Lewis Thomas for The New England Journal of Medicine between 1971 and 1973. Throughout his essays, Thomas touches on subjects as various as biology, anthropology, medicine, music (showing a particular affinity for Bach), etymol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping%20%28compilers%29
In computer science, bootstrapping is the technique for producing a self-compiling compiler – that is, a compiler (or assembler) written in the source programming language that it intends to compile. An initial core version of the compiler (the bootstrap compiler) is generated in a different language (which could be as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin%20of%20the%20Irish%20Biogeographical%20Society
The Bulletin of the Irish Biogeographical Society (, ) publishes many scientific papers on entomology and also entomological catalogues as Occasional Supplements. A full indexed list is provided on the website. External links Website of The Irish Biogeographical Society Biology journals Entomology journals and magazi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christos%20V.%20Massalas
Christos V. Massalas is a Greek academic working in the field of mathematics and materials science. He is widely published and has held senior positions at the University of Ioannina and the University of Western Macedonia. Biography Massalas was born in Ioannina, Greece. After graduating as a civil engineer, Massal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alston%20Scott%20Householder
Alston Scott Householder (5 May 1904 – 4 July 1993) was an American mathematician who specialized in mathematical biology and numerical analysis. He is the inventor of the Householder transformation and of Householder's method. Career Householder was born in Rockford, Illinois, USA. He received a BA in philosophy fr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron%20Halsted
Byron David Halsted (June 7, 1852 – August 28, 1918) was an American botanist and plant pathologist. Halsted was born at Venice, New York. He studied at Michigan State University and at Harvard (D.Sc., 1879). In 1885, he began teaching botany at Iowa State and in 1889, he moved on to Rutgers in New Jersey. In addit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%20number
In fluid dynamics, the Taylor number (Ta) is a dimensionless quantity that characterizes the importance of centrifugal "forces" or so-called inertial forces due to rotation of a fluid about an axis, relative to viscous forces. In 1923 Geoffrey Ingram Taylor introduced this quantity in his article on the stability of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%E2%80%93Couette%20flow
In fluid dynamics, the Taylor–Couette flow consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders. For low angular velocities, measured by the Reynolds number Re, the flow is steady and purely azimuthal. This basic state is known as circular Couette flow, after Maurice Marie Alfred Couette, who...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Lynch
Nancy Ann Lynch (born January 19, 1948) is a computer scientist affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the EECS department and heads the "Theory of Distributed Systems" research group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligenc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-cathode%20lamp
A hollow-cathode lamp (HCL) is type of cold cathode lamp used in physics and chemistry as a spectral line source (e.g. for atomic absorption spectrometers) and as a frequency tuner for light sources such as lasers. An HCL takes advantage of the hollow cathode effect, which causes conduction at a lower voltage and with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Dusart
Pierre Dusart is a French mathematician at the Université de Limoges who specializes in number theory. He has published in several countries, specially in South Korea, with his colleague Damien Sauveron who is associate professor in Computer Sciences at the Université de Limoges. External links Résumé and thesis: (F...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20Rivlin
Ronald Samuel Rivlin (6 May 1915 in London – 4 October 2005) was a British-American physicist, mathematician, rheologist and a noted expert on rubber. Life Rivlin was born in London in 1915. He studied physics and mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge, being awarded a BA in 1937 and a ScD in 1952. He worked for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20branch%20attraction
In phylogenetics, long branch attraction (LBA) is a form of systematic error whereby distantly related lineages are incorrectly inferred to be closely related. LBA arises when the amount of molecular or morphological change accumulated within a lineage is sufficient to cause that lineage to appear similar (thus closely...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20L.%20Burke
William Lionel Burke (July 1941 – July 1996) was an astronomy, astrophysics, and physics professor at UC Santa Cruz. He is also the author of Spacetime, Geometry, Cosmology (), and of Applied differential geometry (), a text expounding the virtues of differential forms over vector calculus for theoretical physics. Bor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artin%20approximation%20theorem
In mathematics, the Artin approximation theorem is a fundamental result of in deformation theory which implies that formal power series with coefficients in a field k are well-approximated by the algebraic functions on k. More precisely, Artin proved two such theorems: one, in 1968, on approximation of complex analyt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential%20%28disambiguation%29
Potential generally refers to a currently unrealized ability, in a wide variety of fields from physics to the social sciences. Mathematics and physics Scalar potential, a scalar field whose gradient is a given vector field Vector potential, a vector field whose curl is a given vector field Potential function (dis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Moore%20%28chemist%29
Peter B. Moore (born October 15, 1939) is Sterling Professor emeritus of Chemistry, Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. He has dedicated his entire career to understanding the structure, function, and mechanism of the ribosome. Moore was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1939 to Laur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20category%20theory
This is a glossary of properties and concepts in category theory in mathematics. (see also Outline of category theory.) Notes on foundations: In many expositions (e.g., Vistoli), the set-theoretic issues are ignored; this means, for instance, that one does not distinguish between small and large categories and that on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vec
Vec may mean: Mathematics: vec(A), the vectorization of a matrix A. Vec denotes the category of vector spaces over the reals. Other: Venetian language (Vèneto), language code. Vecuronium, a muscle relaxant. vec, a sentient moravec robot from the Orion's Arm Universe Project (see also Moravec_(robot)) See also ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochore
Isochore may refer to: Isochoric process, in thermodynamics Isochore (genetics) Isochore map, in geology Isochore, in chemistry as a line representing the variation of pressure with temperature when the volume of the substance operated on is constant. See Isochoric process
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus%20Burckhardt
Titus Burckhardt (24 October 1908 – 15 January 1984) was a Swiss writer and a leading member of the Perennialist or Traditionalist School. He was the author of numerous works on metaphysics, cosmology, anthropology, esoterism, alchemy, Sufism, symbolism and sacred art. Life Scion of a patrician family of Basel, Switze...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversion
Reversion may refer to: Reversion (2012 film), a computer-animated short film Reversion (2015 film), an American science fiction thriller film Reversion (genetics), a back mutation Reversion (law) Reversion (software development) Series reversion, in mathematics See also Reversal (disambiguation) Reverse (disa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rye%20Neck%20High%20School
Rye Neck High School is a public secondary school located in the Village of Mamaroneck, New York and the Town of Rye, New York. It is part of the Rye Neck Union Free School District and is connected to Rye Neck Middle School. Rye Neck High School offers 25 Advanced Placement classes as well as many electives such as ro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils%20L%C3%B6fgren
Nils Löfgren (18 August 1913 – 21 January 1967) was a Swedish chemist who developed the anaesthetic Lidocaine (under the name Xylocaine) in 1943. At this time, he had recently finished his licentiate degree, and was teaching organic chemistry at the University of Stockholm. He and his co-worker Bengt Lundqvist sold the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peek%27s%20law
In physics, Peek's law defines the electric potential gap necessary for triggering a corona discharge between two wires: ev is the "visual critical corona voltage" or "corona inception voltage" (CIV), the voltage required to initiate a visible corona discharge between the wires. It is named after Frank William Pee...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Institute%20of%20Astrophysics
The Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), with its headquarters in Bengaluru, is an autonomous research institute wholly funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. IIA conducts research primarily in the areas of astronomy, astrophysics and related fields. The institute has a network of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenesis
Regenesis or ReGenesis may refer to: Regeneration (biology), the resenesis of amputated or damaged cells, tissues or even organs. ReGenesis, a Canadian television series Regenesis (non-profit organization), an environmental group Regenesis (novel), by C. J. Cherryh ReGenesis (band), a Genesis tribute band X-Men:...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Goldston
Daniel Alan Goldston (born January 4, 1954, in Oakland, California) is an American mathematician who specializes in number theory. He is currently a professor of mathematics at San Jose State University. Early life and education Daniel Alan Goldston was born on January 4, 1954, in Oakland, California. In 1972, he mat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang%E2%80%93Mills%20existence%20and%20mass%20gap
The Yang–Mills existence and mass gap problem is an unsolved problem in mathematical physics and mathematics, and one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems defined by the Clay Mathematics Institute, which has offered a prize of US$1,000,000 for its solution. The problem is phrased as follows: Yang–Mills Existence a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20space
In mathematics, algebraic spaces form a generalization of the schemes of algebraic geometry, introduced by Michael Artin for use in deformation theory. Intuitively, schemes are given by gluing together affine schemes using the Zariski topology, while algebraic spaces are given by gluing together affine schemes using t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Gilbert%20Baker
James Gilbert Baker (November 11, 1914 – June 29, 2005) was an American astronomer and designer of optics systems. Biography He was born in Louisville, Kentucky to Jesse B. Baker and Hattie M. Stallard, the fourth child of that couple. He attended Louisville duPont Manual High School then majored in mathematics at the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inseparable
Inseparable may refer to: Mathematics Inseparable differential equation, an ordinary differential equation that cannot be solved by using separation of variables Inseparable extension, a field extension by elements that do not all satisfy a separable polynomial Inseparable polynomial, a polynomial that does not hav...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mex%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematics, the mex ("minimum excluded value") of a subset of a well-ordered set is the smallest value from the whole set that does not belong to the subset. That is, it is the minimum value of the complement set. Beyond sets, subclasses of well-ordered classes have minimum excluded values. Minimum excluded value...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20E.%20Horton
Robert Elmer Horton (May 18, 1875 – April 22, 1945) was an American hydrologist, geomorphologist, civil engineer, and soil scientist, considered by many to be the father of modern American hydrology. An eponymous medal is awarded by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to recognize outstanding contributions to the fiel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimonate
In chemistry an antimonate is a compound which contains a metallic element, oxygen, and antimony in an oxidation state of +5. These compounds adopt polymeric structures with M-O-Sb linkages. They can be considered to be derivatives of the hypothetical antimonic acid H3SbO4, or combinations of metal oxides and antimony ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20experimental%20errors%20and%20frauds%20in%20physics
Experimental science demands repeatability of results but many experiments are not due to fraud or error. The list of papers whose results were later retracted or discredited, thus leading to invalid science is growing. Some errors are introduced when the experimenter's desire for a certain result unconsciously influen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumping
Bumping may refer to: Processes Bumping (chemistry), the irregular boiling of a liquid Lock bumping, a lock picking technique Thread bumping on an Internet forum Places Bumping Lake, Washington state, United States Bumping River, which flows into Bumping Lake See also Bump (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20C.%20Handy
Nicholas Charles Handy (17 June 1941 – 2 October 2012) was a British theoretical chemist. He retired as Professor of quantum chemistry at the University of Cambridge in September 2004. Education and early life Handy was born in Wiltshire, England and educated at Clayesmore School. He studied the Mathematical Tripos a...