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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20J.%20C.%20Gordon
Michael John Caldwell Gordon (28 February 1948 – 22 August 2017) was a British computer scientist. Life Mike Gordon was born in Ripon, Yorkshire, England. He attended Dartington Hall School and Bedales School. In 1966, he was accepted to study engineering at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, but tr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20May%20%28computer%20scientist%29
Michael David May FRS FREng (born 24 February 1951) is a British computer scientist. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol and founder of XMOS Semiconductor, serving until February 2014 as the chief technology officer. May was lead architect for the transputer. As of 2017...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorio%20Giardino
Vittorio Giardino (born December 24, 1946) is an Italian comic artist. Biography Giardino was born in Bologna, where he graduated in electrical engineering in 1969. At the age of 30, he decided to leave his job and devote himself to comics. Two years later his first short story, "Pax Romana", was published in La Città...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicubical%20parabola
In mathematics, a cuspidal cubic or semicubical parabola is an algebraic plane curve that has an implicit equation of the form (with ) in some Cartesian coordinate system. Solving for leads to the explicit form which imply that every real point satisfies . The exponent explains the term semicubical parabola. (A par...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive%20%28phylogenetics%29
In phylogenetics, a primitive (or ancestral) character, trait, or feature of a lineage or taxon is one that is inherited from the common ancestor of a clade (or clade group) and has undergone little change since. Conversely, a trait that appears within the clade group (that is, is present in any subgroup within the cl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias%20Felleisen
Matthias Felleisen is a German-American computer science professor and author. He grew up in Germany and immigrated to the US in his twenties. He received his PhD from Indiana University under the direction of Daniel P. Friedman. After serving as professor for 14 years in the Computer Science Department of Rice Unive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20engineering%20and%20infrastructure%20repair%20in%20New%20Orleans%20after%20Hurricane%20Katrina
This article covers the levee system and infrastructure repairs in New Orleans, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina. Though Hurricane Katrina did not deal the city of New Orleans a direct hit on August 29, 2005, the associated storm surge precipitated catastrophic failures of the levees and flood walls. The Mississi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin%20%28disambiguation%29
A fin is an appendage used to produce lift and thrust or to steer while traveling in water, air, or other fluid media. Fin, FIN, or Fins may also refer to: Biology Fish fin, an anatomical feature of fish Fin fish, fish that possess fins Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) People Fín (died 604), Gaelic princess, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastability%20in%20the%20brain
In the field of computational neuroscience, the theory of metastability refers to the human brain's ability to integrate several functional parts and to produce neural oscillations in a cooperative and coordinated manner, providing the basis for conscious activity. Metastability, a state in which signals (such as osci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumbite
In chemistry, plumbite is the oxyanion or hydrated forms, or any salt containing this anion. In these salts, lead is in the oxidation state +2. It is the traditional term for the IUPAC name plumbate(II). For example, lead(II) oxide (PbO) dissolves in alkali to form salts containing the anion (hydrogen plumbite): Le...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artin%E2%80%93Schreier%20theory
In mathematics, Artin–Schreier theory is a branch of Galois theory, specifically a positive characteristic analogue of Kummer theory, for Galois extensions of degree equal to the characteristic p. introduced Artin–Schreier theory for extensions of prime degree p, and generalized it to extensions of prime power degre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovino%20Santos%20Neto
Jovino Santos Neto (born September 18, 1954) is a Seattle-based Brazilian-American jazz pianist, flutist, composer, arranger, educator and record producer. Career Jovino Santos Neto started playing piano at age 13 and by 16 was playing keyboards in a band called the Vacancy Group in Bangu, Rio de Janeiro. He earned a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%20Institute%20of%20Computer%20Science
RISE SICS (previously Swedish Institute of Computer Science) is a leading research institute for applied information and communication technology in Sweden, founded in 1985. It explores the digitalization of products, services and businesses. In January 2005, SICS had about 88 employees, of which 77 were researchers,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal%20alkene
In organic chemistry, terminal alkenes (alpha-olefins, α-olefins, or 1-alkenes) are a family of organic compounds which are alkenes (also known as olefins) with a chemical formula , distinguished by having a double bond at the primary, alpha (α), or 1- position. This location of a double bond enhances the reactivity ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floer%20homology
In mathematics, Floer homology is a tool for studying symplectic geometry and low-dimensional topology. Floer homology is a novel invariant that arises as an infinite-dimensional analogue of finite-dimensional Morse homology. Andreas Floer introduced the first version of Floer homology, now called Lagrangian Floer ho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Kitcher
Philip Stuart Kitcher (born 20 February 1947) is a British philosopher who is John Dewey Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University. He specialises in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of literature, and more recently pragmatism. Life and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Lawson%20%28botanist%29
George Lawson (October 12, 1827 – November 10, 1895) was a Scottish-Canadian botanist who is considered the "father of Canadian botany". Born in Scotland, in 1858, he was appointed the Professor of Chemistry and Natural History at Queen's University. He helped to create one of Canada's first botanical gardens. In 186...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%28n%29
In mathematics, O(n) may refer to: O(n), the orthogonal group Big O notation, indicating the order of growth of some quantity as a function of n or the limiting behavior of a function, e.g. in computational complexity theory The nth tensor power of Serre's twisting sheaf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremal%20combinatorics
Extremal combinatorics is a field of combinatorics, which is itself a part of mathematics. Extremal combinatorics studies how large or how small a collection of finite objects (numbers, graphs, vectors, sets, etc.) can be, if it has to satisfy certain restrictions. Much of extremal combinatorics concerns classes of se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotachophoresis
Isotachophoresis (ITP) is a technique in analytical chemistry used for selective separation and concentration of ionic analytes. It is a form of electrophoresis; charged analytes are separated based on ionic mobility, a quantity which tells how fast an ion migrates through an electric field. Overview In conventional I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrosyl%20fluoride
Nitrosyl fluoride (NOF) is a covalently bonded nitrosyl compound. Physical properties The compound is a colorless gas, with bent molecular shape. The VSEPR model explains this geometry via a lone-pair of electrons on the nitrogen atom. Chemistry Nitrosyl fluoride is typically produced by direct reaction of nitric o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thionyl%20group
The thionyl group is SO, a sulfur atom plus an oxygen atom. It occurs in compounds such as thionyl fluoride, SOF2. Thionyl chloride, SOCl2, is a common reagent used in organic synthesis to convert carboxylic acids to acyl chlorides. In organic chemistry, the thionyl group is known as a sulfoxide group or sulfinyl gr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfuryl
In inorganic chemistry, the sulfuryl group is a functional group consisting of a sulfur atom covalently bound to two oxygen atoms (). It occurs in compounds such as sulfuryl chloride, and sulfuryl fluoride, . In organic chemistry, this group is found in sulfones () and sulfonyl halides (), where it is called the su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drilling%20and%20blasting
Drilling and blasting is the controlled use of explosives and other methods, such as gas pressure blasting pyrotechnics, to break rock for excavation. It is practiced most often in mining, quarrying and civil engineering such as dam, tunnel or road construction. The result of rock blasting is often known as a rock cut....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saclay
Saclay () is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. It had a population of 3,067 in 2006. It is best known for the large scientific facility CEA Saclay, mostly dealing with nuclear and particle physics. Inhabitants of Saclay are known as Saclaysiens. Transport ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy%20%28disambiguation%29
Alchemy was an early protoscientific practice. It may also refer to: Regional forms Alchemy and chemistry in medieval Islam Chinese alchemy Indian alchemy, or Rasayana Entertainment and literature Alchemy (comics), a Marvel character Alchemy (video game), a 2001 video game by PopCap Games Alchemy (novel), a 2004 nove...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer%20FEM%20solver
Elmer is a computational tool for multi-physics problems. It has been developed by CSC in collaboration with Finnish universities, research laboratories and industry. Elmer FEM solver is free and open-source software, subject to the requirements of the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or any later. Elmer in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Cheriton
David Ross Cheriton (born March 29, 1951) is a Canadian computer scientist, businessman, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. He is a computer science professor at Stanford University, where he founded and leads the Distributed Systems Group. He is a distributed computing and computer networking expert, with insigh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Braden
Robert Braden (28 January 1934 – April 2018) was an American computer scientist who played a role in the development of the Internet. His research interests included end-to-end network protocols, especially in the transport and network layers. Career Braden received a Bachelor of Engineering Physics from Cornell Univ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday%20paradox%20%28electrochemistry%29
The Faraday paradox was a once inexplicable aspect of the reaction between nitric acid and steel. Around 1830, the English scientist Michael Faraday found that diluted nitric acid would attack steel, but concentrated nitric acid would not. The attempt to explain this discovery led to advances in electrochemistry. Pas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision%20rectifier
The precision rectifier is a configuration obtained with an operational amplifier in order to have a circuit behave like an ideal diode and rectifier. It is very useful for high-precision signal processing. With the help of a precision rectifier the high-precision signal processing can be done very easily. The op-amp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20N.%20Ogle
Kenneth N. Ogle (1902-1968) was a scientist of human vision. He was born in Colorado, and attended the public school and college at Colorado Springs. In 1925, Ogle earned a bachelor's degree from Colorado College cum laude. After graduation from college and selection of physics as a career, Ogle spent two years at Dar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameterized%20post-Newtonian%20formalism
In physics, precisely in the study of the theory of general relativity and many alternatives to it, the post-Newtonian formalism is a calculational tool that expresses Einstein's (nonlinear) equations of gravity in terms of the lowest-order deviations from Newton's law of universal gravitation. This allows approximatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole%20argument
In general relativity, the hole argument is an apparent paradox that much troubled Albert Einstein while developing his famous field equations. Some philosophers of physics take the argument to raise a problem for manifold substantialism, a doctrine that the manifold of events in spacetime is a "substance" which exist...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blas%20Cabrera%20Navarro
Blas Cabrera Navarro (born September 21, 1946 in Paris, France) is a Stanley G. Wojcicki Professor of Physics at Stanford University best known for his experiment in search of magnetic monopoles. He is the son of Spanish physicist Nicolás Cabrera and the grandson of Blas Cabrera Felipe, also a Spanish physicist. Blas ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Bader
Richard F. W. Bader (October 15, 1931 – January 15, 2012) was a Canadian quantum chemist, noted for his work on the Atoms in molecules theory. This theory attempts to establish a physical basis for many of the working concepts of chemistry, such as atoms in molecules and bonding, in terms of the topology of the elect...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rvachev%20function
In mathematics, an R-function, or Rvachev function, is a real-valued function whose sign does not change if none of the signs of its arguments change; that is, its sign is determined solely by the signs of its arguments. Interpreting positive values as true and negative values as false, an R-function is transformed in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad%20Kaykobad
Mohammad Kaykobad () is a computer scientist, educator, author, and columnist from Bangladesh. Along with Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, he started the national mathematics olympiad. He was a professor of computer science and engineering in Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. and currently is a faculty member o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Allen%20Shepherd
Mark Allen Shepherd (born January 7, 1961) is an actor, best known for his role as Morn on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He also appeared as Morn (uncredited) in one episode each of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager. Biography and career Shepherd received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20A.%20Jones
Jonathan A. Jones (born 1967) is a professor in atomic and laser physics at the University of Oxford, and a fellow and tutor in physics at Brasenose College, Oxford. Education Jones studied at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from 1985 to 1989 and St John's College, Oxford, from 1989 to 1992. He received his Doctor of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%20diffusion
In chemical physics, atomic diffusion is a diffusion process whereby the random, thermally-activated movement of atoms in a solid results in the net transport of atoms. For example, helium atoms inside a balloon can diffuse through the wall of the balloon and escape, resulting in the balloon slowly deflating. Other air...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid%20mechanics
Fluid mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the mechanics of fluids (liquids, gases, and plasmas) and the forces on them. It has applications in a wide range of disciplines, including mechanical, aerospace, civil, chemical, and biomedical engineering, as well as geophysics, oceanography, meteorology, astrop...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level-spacing%20distribution
In mathematical physics, level spacing is the difference between consecutive elements in some set of real numbers. In particular, it is the difference between consecutive energy levels or eigenvalues of a matrix or linear operator. Mathematical physics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredholm%20determinant
In mathematics, the Fredholm determinant is a complex-valued function which generalizes the determinant of a finite dimensional linear operator. It is defined for bounded operators on a Hilbert space which differ from the identity operator by a trace-class operator. The function is named after the mathematician Erik Iv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attosecond%20physics
Attosecond physics, also known as attophysics, or more generally attosecond science, is a branch of physics that deals with light-matter interaction phenomena wherein attosecond (10−18 s) photon pulses are used to unravel dynamical processes in matter with unprecedented time resolution. Attosecond science mainly emplo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QPC
QPC may refer to: Quantum point contact, in physics The Quarter Pounder with Cheese, a McDonald's menu item Queens Park Centre, in England Queen's Privy Council for Canada QueryPerformanceCounter, an API for the High Precision Event Timer, a hardware timer used in personal computers Quaid e azam public college, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryptone
Tryptone is the assortment of peptides formed by the digestion of casein by the protease trypsin. Tryptone is commonly used in microbiology to produce lysogeny broth (LB) for the growth of E. coli and other microorganisms. It provides a source of amino acids for the growing bacteria. Tryptone is similar to casamino a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%20of%20sets
In mathematics, there are two different notions of a ring of sets, both referring to certain families of sets. In order theory, a nonempty family of sets is called a ring (of sets) if it is closed under union and intersection. That is, the following two statements are true for all sets and , implies and implies ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing
Crossing may refer to: Crossing (2008 film), a South Korean film Crossing (album), a 1985 album by world music/jazz group Oregon Crossing (architecture), the junction of the four arms of a cruciform church Crossing (knot theory), a visualization of intersections in mathematical knots Crossing (physics), the relat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20paradox
Information paradox is the short form for two paradoxes: Arrow information paradox in economics Black hole information paradox in physics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twistor%20space
In mathematics and theoretical physics (especially twistor theory), twistor space is the complex vector space of solutions of the twistor equation . It was described in the 1960s by Roger Penrose and Malcolm MacCallum. According to Andrew Hodges, twistor space is useful for conceptualizing the way photons travel throug...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim4
Sim4 is a nucleotide sequence alignment program akin to BLAST but specifically tailored to DNA to cDNA/EST (Expressed Sequence Tag) alignment (as opposed to DNA–DNA or protein–protein alignment). It was written by Florea et al. External links A Computer Program for Aligning a cDNA Sequence with a Genomic DNA Sequence ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20algebra
In mathematics, a topological algebra is an algebra and at the same time a topological space, where the algebraic and the topological structures are coherent in a specified sense. Definition A topological algebra over a topological field is a topological vector space together with a bilinear multiplication , tha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Malachowsky
Chris Malachowsky (born May 2, 1959) is an American electrical engineer, one of the co-founders of computer graphics company Nvidia. Raised in the Oakhurst section of Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, Malachowsky graduated from Ocean Township High School in 1976. He received a B.S. degree in 1983, in electr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearance
Clearance can refer to: Engineering Engineering tolerance, a physical distance or space between two components Hydraulic clearance, in hydraulic systems Clearance in civil engineering, including: The difference between the loading gauge and the structure gauge: the amount of space between the top of a rail car and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headroom
Headroom or HeadRoom may refer to: Vertical clearance, in engineering, the maximum distance overhead (the difference between the structure gauge and the loading gauge) Headroom (audio signal processing), the difference between the nominal signal value and the maximum undistorted value Headroom (photographic framing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20G.%20Cory
David G. Cory is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Waterloo where he holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing. He works at the Institute for Quantum Computing, and is also associated with the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology. Education and career Cory was educated ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%20gauge%20transformation
Given a topological space M, a topological group G and a principal G-bundle over M, a global section of that principal bundle is a gauge fixing and the process of replacing one section by another is a gauge transformation. If a gauge transformation isn't homotopic to the identity, it is called a large gauge transformat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical%20interpretation%20of%20classical%20physics
Classical Newtonian physics has, formally, been replaced by quantum mechanics on the small scale and relativity on the large scale. Because most humans continue to think in terms of the kind of events we perceive in the human scale of daily life, it became necessary to provide a new philosophical interpretation of clas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Chemical%20History%20of%20a%20Candle
The Chemical History of a Candle was the title of a series of six lectures on the chemistry and physics of flames given by Michael Faraday at the Royal Institution in 1848, as part of the series of Christmas lectures for young people founded by Faraday in 1825 and still given there every year. The lectures described t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESOP
ESOP may refer to: European Symposium on Programming, a conference in computer science Employee stock ownership plan, an employee-owner scheme See also Aesop, an ancient Greek storyteller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static%20library
In computer science, a static library or statically-linked library is a set of routines, external functions and variables which are resolved in a caller at compile-time and copied into a target application by a compiler, linker, or binder, producing an object file and a stand-alone executable. This executable and the p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting%20yard%20algorithm
In computer science, the shunting yard algorithm is a method for parsing arithmetical or logical expressions, or a combination of both, specified in infix notation. It can produce either a postfix notation string, also known as Reverse Polish notation (RPN), or an abstract syntax tree (AST). The algorithm was invented ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20quantum%20number
In physics, a topological quantum number (also called topological charge) is any quantity, in a physical theory, that takes on only one of a discrete set of values, due to topological considerations. Most commonly, topological quantum numbers are topological invariants associated with topological defects or soliton-typ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%20Lee
Pascal Lee (; born 1964) is co-founder and chairman of the Mars Institute, a planetary scientist at the SETI Institute, and the Principal Investigator of the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. He holds an ME in geology and geophysics from the University of Paris, and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse%E2%80%93Kelley%20set%20theory
In the foundations of mathematics, Morse–Kelley set theory (MK), Kelley–Morse set theory (KM), Morse–Tarski set theory (MT), Quine–Morse set theory (QM) or the system of Quine and Morse is a first-order axiomatic set theory that is closely related to von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory (NBG). While von Neumann–Bernays...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafnium%20tetrachloride
Hafnium(IV) chloride is the inorganic compound with the formula HfCl4. This colourless solid is the precursor to most hafnium organometallic compounds. It has a variety of highly specialized applications, mainly in materials science and as a catalyst. Preparation HfCl4 can be produced by several related procedures: Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.%20Santhanam
Kasturiranga Santhanam (1895 – 28 February 1980), also known as Kumitithadal Santhanam, was an Indian politician. He was a conservative Iyengar from Tamil Nadu. Early life Santhanam obtained a Master of Arts degree in mathematics from the University of Madras (St. Joseph's College, Trichy) and later a law degree from ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Henning%20Rehren
Karl-Henning Rehren (born 1956 in Celle) is a German physicist who focuses on algebraic quantum field theory. Biography Rehren studied physics in Heidelberg, Paris and Freiburg. In Freiburg he received his PhD (advisor Klaus Pohlmeyer) in 1984. Habilitation 1991 in Berlin. Since 1997 he teaches physics in Göttingen. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wess%E2%80%93Zumino%20model
In theoretical physics, the Wess–Zumino model has become the first known example of an interacting four-dimensional quantum field theory with linearly realised supersymmetry. In 1974, Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino studied, using modern terminology, dynamics of a single chiral superfield (composed of a complex scalar and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconformal%20algebra
In theoretical physics, the superconformal algebra is a graded Lie algebra or superalgebra that combines the conformal algebra and supersymmetry. In two dimensions, the superconformal algebra is infinite-dimensional. In higher dimensions, superconformal algebras are finite-dimensional and generate the superconformal gr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagedorn%20temperature
The Hagedorn temperature, TH, is the temperature in theoretical physics where hadronic matter (i.e. ordinary matter) is no longer stable, and must either "evaporate" or convert into quark matter; as such, it can be thought of as the "boiling point" of hadronic matter. It was discovered by Rolf Hagedorn. The Hagedorn te...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinberg%E2%80%93Witten%20theorem
In theoretical physics, the Weinberg–Witten (WW) theorem, proved by Steven Weinberg and Edward Witten, states that massless particles (either composite or elementary) with spin j > 1/2 cannot carry a Lorentz-covariant current, while massless particles with spin j > 1 cannot carry a Lorentz-covariant stress-energy. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20conformal%20field%20theory
In theoretical physics, a rational conformal field theory is a special type of two-dimensional conformal field theory with a finite number of conformal primaries. In these theories, all dimensions (and the central charge) are rational numbers that can be computed from the consistency conditions of conformal field theor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal%20model%20%28physics%29
In theoretical physics, a minimal model or Virasoro minimal model is a two-dimensional conformal field theory whose spectrum is built from finitely many irreducible representations of the Virasoro algebra. Minimal models have been classified and solved, and found to obey an ADE classification. The term minimal model ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/158%20%28number%29
158 (one hundred [and] fifty-eight) is the natural number following 157 and preceding 159. In mathematics 158 is a nontotient, since there is no integer with 158 coprimes below it. 158 is a Perrin number, appearing after 68, 90, 119. 158 is the number of digits in the decimal expansion of 100!, the product of all th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20electrical%20engineering%20articles
This is an alphabetical list of articles pertaining specifically to electrical and electronics engineering. For a thematic list, please see List of electrical engineering topics. For a broad overview of engineering, see List of engineering topics. For biographies, see List of engineers. # 866A – 15 kV AC – 2D compu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20G.%20Collins
Anthony G. Collins (born 1949) was the 16th President of Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York. Early life, education, and career Collins grew up outside Melbourne, Australia. He earned an undergraduate civil engineering degree from Monash University, and his master's and Ph.D degrees from Lehigh University in Pen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substring
In formal language theory and computer science, a substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string. For instance, "the best of" is a substring of "It was the best of times". In contrast, "Itwastimes" is a subsequence of "It was the best of times", but not a substring. Prefixes and suffixes are special ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milnor%20map
In mathematics, Milnor maps are named in honor of John Milnor, who introduced them to topology and algebraic geometry in his book Singular Points of Complex Hypersurfaces (Princeton University Press, 1968) and earlier lectures. The most studied Milnor maps are actually fibrations, and the phrase Milnor fibration is mor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Ball
Philip Ball (born 1962) is a British science writer. For over twenty years he has been an editor of the journal Nature, for which he continues to write regularly. He is a regular contributor to Prospect magazine and a columnist for Chemistry World, Nature Materials, and BBC Future. He has contributed to publications...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Huskey
Harry Douglas Huskey (January 19, 1916 – April 9, 2017) was an American computer design pioneer. Early life and career Huskey was born in Whittier, in the Smoky Mountains region of North Carolina and grew up in Idaho. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics at the University of Idaho. He was the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20David%20Jackson%20%28physicist%29
John David Jackson (January 19, 1925 – May 20, 2016) was a Canadian–American physics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A theoretical physicist, he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, well known for his wor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Kevles
Daniel J. Kevles (born 2 March 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American historian of science best known for his books on American physics and eugenics and for a wide-ranging body of scholarship on science and technology in modern societies. He is Stanley Woodward Professor of History, Emeritus at Yale Univers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Wallace%20Smith%20Bliss
William Wallace Smith Bliss (August 17, 1815 – August 5, 1853) was a United States Army officer and mathematics professor. A gifted mathematician, he taught at West Point and also served as a line officer. In December 1848 Bliss married Mary Elizabeth Taylor, youngest daughter of President-elect Zachary Taylor, whom h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling%20Hall%20bombing
The Sterling Hall bombing occurred on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus on August 24, 1970, and was committed by four men as an action against the university's research connections with the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. It resulted in the death of a university physics researcher and injuries to three o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortest%20common%20supersequence
In computer science, the shortest common supersequence of two sequences X and Y is the shortest sequence which has X and Y as subsequences. This is a problem closely related to the longest common subsequence problem. Given two sequences X = < x1,...,xm > and Y = < y1,...,yn >, a sequence U = < u1,...,uk > is a common s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin%20Gotlieb
Calvin Carl "Kelly" Gotlieb, (March 27, 1921 – October 16, 2016) was a Canadian professor and computer scientist who has been called the "Father of Computing" in Canada. He was a Professor in Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Biography He received a Bachelor of Science in physics in 1942, a Master of A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%20of%20Computer%20Science
The Bachelor of Computer Science (abbreviated BCompSc or BCS) is a bachelor's degree for completion of an undergraduate program in computer science. In general, computer science degree programs emphasize the mathematical and theoretical foundations of computing. Typical requirements Because computer science is a wide...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptera
Aptera may refer to: Biology Aptera (cockroach), a genus of cockroaches in the family Blaberidae Apteromantis aptera, a species of praying mantis, endemic to the Iberian Peninsula Hopea aptera, a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae, endemic to Papua New Guinea Inga aptera, a species of legume in the fa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20Lucks
Stefan Lucks is a researcher in the fields of communications security and cryptography. Lucks is known for his attack on Triple DES, and for extending Lars Knudsen's Square attack to Twofish, a cipher outside the Square family, thus generalising the attack into integral cryptanalysis. He has also co-authored attacks ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition%20operator
In mathematics, the composition operator with symbol is a linear operator defined by the rule where denotes function composition. The study of composition operators is covered by AMS category 47B33. In physics In physics, and especially the area of dynamical systems, the composition operator is usually referred t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20operators%20between%20Banach%20spaces
In mathematics, nuclear operators between Banach spaces are a linear operators between Banach spaces in infinite dimensions that share some of the properties of their counter-part in finite dimension. In Hilbert spaces such operators are usually called trace class operators and one can define such things as the trace....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20L.%20Bauer
Friedrich Ludwig "Fritz" Bauer (10 June 1924 – 26 March 2015) was a German pioneer of computer science and professor at the Technical University of Munich. He coined the term Software engineering Life Bauer earned his Abitur in 1942 and served in the Wehrmacht during World War II, from 1943 to 1945. From 1946 to 1950...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredholm%20kernel
In mathematics, a Fredholm kernel is a certain type of a kernel on a Banach space, associated with nuclear operators on the Banach space. They are an abstraction of the idea of the Fredholm integral equation and the Fredholm operator, and are one of the objects of study in Fredholm theory. Fredholm kernels are named i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20space
In mathematics, nuclear spaces are topological vector spaces that can be viewed as a generalization of finite dimensional Euclidean spaces and share many of their desirable properties. Nuclear spaces are however quite different from Hilbert spaces, another generalization of finite dimensional Euclidean spaces. They wer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20tensor%20product
In mathematics, there are usually many different ways to construct a topological tensor product of two topological vector spaces. For Hilbert spaces or nuclear spaces there is a simple well-behaved theory of tensor products (see Tensor product of Hilbert spaces), but for general Banach spaces or locally convex topologi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Jay%20Nelson
Bruce Jay Nelson (January 19, 1952 – September 19, 1999) was an American computer scientist best known as the inventor of the remote procedure call concept for computer network communications. Bruce Nelson graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1974, and went on to earn a master's in computer science from Stanford Univ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20determinant
In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, it is sometimes possible to generalize the notion of the determinant of a square matrix of finite order (representing a linear transformation from a finite-dimensional vector space to itself) to the infinite-dimensional case of a linear operator S mapping a function spac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujikawa%20method
In physics, Fujikawa's method is a way of deriving the chiral anomaly in quantum field theory. It uses the correspondence between functional determinants and the partition function, effectively making use of the Atiyah–Singer index theorem. Derivation Suppose given a Dirac field which transforms according to a repres...