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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five%20Equations%20That%20Changed%20the%20World | Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics is a book by Michael Guillen, published in 1995.
It is divided into five chapters that talk about five different equations in physics and the people who have developed them.
The scientists and their equations are:
Isaac Newton (Universal Law o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Lawton%20%28biologist%29 | Sir John Hartley Lawton (born 24 September 1943) is a British ecologist, RSPB Vice President, President (former Chair) of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, President of The Institution of Environmental Sciences, Chairman of York Museums Trust and President of the York Ornithological Club.
He has previously been a trustee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necking%20%28engineering%29 | In engineering and materials science, necking is a mode of tensile deformation where relatively large amounts of strain localize disproportionately in a small region of the material. The resulting prominent decrease in local cross-sectional area provides the basis for the name "neck". Because the local strains in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine%20Baum%C3%A9 | Antoine Baumé (26 February 172815 October 1804) was a French chemist.
Life
He was born at Senlis. He was apprenticed to the chemist Claude Joseph Geoffroy, and in 1752 was admitted a member of the École de Pharmacie, where in the same year he was appointed professor of chemistry. The money he made in a business he car... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Geometer%27s%20Sketchpad | The Geometer's Sketchpad is a commercial interactive geometry software program for exploring Euclidean geometry, algebra, calculus, and other areas of mathematics. It was created as part of the NSF-funded Visual Geometry Project led by Eugene Klotz and Doris Schattschneider from 1986 to 1991 at Swarthmore College. Ni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Everest%20Boole | Mary Everest Boole (11 March 1832 in Wickwar, Gloucestershire – 17 May 1916 in Middlesex, England) was a self-taught mathematician who is best known as an author of didactic works on mathematics, such as Philosophy and Fun of Algebra, and as the wife of fellow mathematician George Boole. Her progressive ideas on educat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%20Lettvin | Jerome Ysroael Lettvin (February 23, 1920 – April 23, 2011), often known as Jerry Lettvin, was an American cognitive scientist, and Professor of Electrical and Bioengineering and Communications Physiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is best known as the lead author of the paper, "What the Fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal%20resolution | Temporal resolution (TR) refers to the discrete resolution of a measurement with respect to time.
Physics
Often there is a trade-off between the temporal resolution of a measurement and its spatial resolution, due to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. In some contexts, such as particle physics, this trade-off can be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFE | SFE may refer to:
Sales force effectiveness
San Fernando Airport (Philippines) IATA code
Scottish Financial Enterprise, trade body for the financial services sector in Scotland
Scouts for Equality, advocates for scouts and leaders in the Boy Scouts of America
Secure function evaluation, in cryptography
Sigma ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramutation | In epigenetics, a paramutation is an interaction between two alleles at a single locus, whereby one allele induces a heritable change in the other allele. The change may be in the pattern of DNA methylation or histone modifications. The allele inducing the change is said to be paramutagenic, while the allele that has b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transvection%20%28genetics%29 | Transvection is an epigenetic phenomenon that results from an interaction between an allele on one chromosome and the corresponding allele on the homologous chromosome. Transvection can lead to either gene activation or repression. It can also occur between nonallelic regions of the genome as well as regions of the ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artin%20L-function | In mathematics, an Artin L-function is a type of Dirichlet series associated to a linear representation ρ of a Galois group G. These functions were introduced in 1923 by Emil Artin, in connection with his research into class field theory. Their fundamental properties, in particular the Artin conjecture described below,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasinormal%20subgroup | In mathematics, in the field of group theory, a quasinormal subgroup, or permutable subgroup, is a subgroup of a group that commutes (permutes) with every other subgroup with respect to the product of subgroups. The term quasinormal subgroup was introduced by Øystein Ore in 1937.
Two subgroups are said to permute (or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnormal%20subgroup | In mathematics, in the field of group theory, a subgroup H of a given group G is a subnormal subgroup of G if there is a finite chain of subgroups of the group, each one normal in the next, beginning at H and ending at G.
In notation, is -subnormal in if there are subgroups
of such that is normal in for each .
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree%20of%20an%20algebraic%20variety | In mathematics, the degree of an affine or projective variety of dimension is the number of intersection points of the variety
with hyperplanes in general position. For an algebraic set, the intersection points must be counted with their intersection multiplicity, because of the possibility of multiple components. Fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion%20algebra | In mathematics, a quaternion algebra over a field F is a central simple algebra A over F that has dimension 4 over F. Every quaternion algebra becomes a matrix algebra by extending scalars (equivalently, tensoring with a field extension), i.e. for a suitable field extension K of F, is isomorphic to the 2 × 2 matrix al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense%20graph | In mathematics, a dense graph is a graph in which the number of edges is close to the maximal number of edges (where every pair of vertices is connected by one edge). The opposite, a graph with only a few edges, is a sparse graph. The distinction of what constitutes a dense or sparse graph is ill-defined, and is often ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme | Extreme may refer to:
Science and mathematics
Mathematics
Extreme point, a point in a convex set which does not lie in any open line segment joining two points in the set
Maxima and minima, extremes on a mathematical function
Science
Extremophile, an organism which thrives in or requires "extreme"
Extremes on Earth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20tensor | In mathematics, mathematical physics, and theoretical physics, the spin tensor is a quantity used to describe the rotational motion of particles in spacetime. The spin tensor has application in
general relativity and special relativity, as well as quantum mechanics, relativistic quantum mechanics, and quantum field th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20G.%20W.%20Anderson | Robert Geoffrey William Anderson, (born 2 May 1944) is a British museum curator and historian of chemistry. He has wide-ranging interests in the history of chemistry, including the history of scientific instrumentation, the work of Joseph Black and Joseph Priestley, the history of museums, and the involvement of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Garavaglia | Mario Garavaglia (born 1937) is an Argentine physicist.
Biography
He was born in Junín (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina) in 1937.
In 1999 the International Commission for Optics awarded him the Galileo Galilei Award by unanimous vote for his work on lasers and their applications in industry, medicine and biology and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintuple%20bond | A quintuple bond in chemistry is an unusual type of chemical bond, first reported in 2005 for a dichromium compound. Single bonds, double bonds, and triple bonds are commonplace in chemistry. Quadruple bonds are rarer and are currently known only among the transition metals, especially for Cr, Mo, W, and Re, e.g. [Mo2C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antagonism | Antagonism may refer to:
The characteristic of an antagonist
Antagonism (chemistry), where the involvement of multiple agents reduces their overall effect
Receptor antagonist or pharmacological antagonist, a substance that binds to the site an agonist would bind to, without causing activation
Antagonism (phytopatholog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facultad%20de%20Ciencias%20Exactas%2C%20Ingenier%C3%ADa%20y%20Agrimensura%20%28UNR%29 | The Faculty of Exact Sciences, Engineering and Surveying (Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura) of the National University of Rosario (UNR) is an institution of higher learning in Rosario, Argentina.
Description
The faculty consists of the Institute of Mechanical systems, Institute of Geology, Insti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABINIT | ABINIT is an open-source suite of programs for materials science, distributed under the GNU General Public License. ABINIT implements density functional theory, using a plane wave basis set and pseudopotentials, to compute the electronic density and derived properties of materials ranging from molecules to surfaces to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arunas%20Rudvalis | Arunas Rudvalis (born June 8, 1945) is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is best known for the Rudvalis group.
Rudvalis went to the Harvey Mudd College and received his Ph.D. degree in Dartmouth College under direction of Ernst Snapper.
External links
Arunas Rudvalis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPU | PPU may refer to:
Education
Palestine Polytechnic University, Hebron, West Bank
Patliputra University, Patna, India
Point Park University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
Science and technology
Physics processing unit, a microprocessor typically used for video games
Picture Processing Unit, the component which generates... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodic%20flow | In mathematics, ergodic flows occur in geometry, through the geodesic and horocycle flows of closed hyperbolic surfaces. Both of these examples have been understood in terms of the theory of unitary representations of locally compact groups: if Γ is the fundamental group of a closed surface, regarded as a discrete subg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigidity%20theory | Rigidity theory may refer to
Study of the concept of rigidity (mathematics)
Mathematical theory of structural rigidity
Rigidity theory (physics), or topological constraints theory, describes or predicts the mechanical properties of glass |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostow%20rigidity%20theorem | In mathematics, Mostow's rigidity theorem, or strong rigidity theorem, or Mostow–Prasad rigidity theorem, essentially states that the geometry of a complete, finite-volume hyperbolic manifold of dimension greater than two is determined by the fundamental group and hence unique. The theorem was proven for closed manifo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Association%20of%20Biology%20Teachers | The National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) is an incorporated association of biology educators in the United States. It was initially founded in response to the poor understanding of biology and the decline in the teaching of the subject in the 1930s. It has grown to become a national representative organisati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefschetz%20pencil | In mathematics, a Lefschetz pencil is a construction in algebraic geometry considered by Solomon Lefschetz, used to analyse the algebraic topology of an algebraic variety V.
Description
A pencil is a particular kind of linear system of divisors on V, namely a one-parameter family, parametrised by the projective line.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20mapping | In mathematics, in particular the subfield of algebraic geometry, a rational map or rational mapping is a kind of partial function between algebraic varieties. This article uses the convention that varieties are irreducible.
Definition
Formal definition
Formally, a rational map between two varieties is an equivalen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEPnet | HEPnet or the High-Energy Physics Network is a telecommunications network for researchers in high-energy physics. It originated in the United States, but that has spread to most places involved in such research. Well-known sites include Argonne National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20dimension | In mathematics, complex dimension usually refers to the dimension of a complex manifold or a complex algebraic variety. These are spaces in which the local neighborhoods of points (or of non-singular points in the case of a variety) are modeled on a Cartesian product of the form for some , and the complex dimension is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant%20sheaf | In mathematics, the constant sheaf on a topological space associated to a set is a sheaf of sets on whose stalks are all equal to . It is denoted by or . The constant presheaf with value is the presheaf that assigns to each open subset of the value , and all of whose restriction maps are the identity map . The c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz%20Marcinkiewicz | Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (; born 20 December 1959) is a Polish conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 31 October 2005 to 14 July 2006. He was a member of the Law and Justice party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS).
Early life
Born in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Marcinkiewicz graduated in 1984 from th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escuela%20Superior%20Latinoamericana%20de%20Inform%C3%A1tica | The Escuela Superior Latinoamericana de Informática (Spanish for "Latin American Superior School of Informatics", ESLAI) was an Argentine undergraduate school of computer science established in 1986. Classes were held in a former country house at the Pereyra Iraola Park in Buenos Aires Province, located approximately 4... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9%E2%80%93Bendixson%20theorem | In mathematics, the Poincaré–Bendixson theorem is a statement about the long-term behaviour of orbits of continuous dynamical systems on the plane, cylinder, or two-sphere.
Theorem
Given a differentiable real dynamical system defined on an open subset of the plane, every non-empty compact ω-limit set of an orbit, whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larmor%20precession | In physics, Larmor precession (named after Joseph Larmor) is the precession of the magnetic moment of an object about an external magnetic field. The phenomenon is conceptually similar to the precession of a tilted classical gyroscope in an external torque-exerting gravitational field. Objects with a magnetic moment a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed%20boundary%20condition | In mathematics, a mixed boundary condition for a partial differential equation defines a boundary value problem in which the solution of the given equation is required to satisfy different boundary conditions on disjoint parts of the boundary of the domain where the condition is stated. Precisely, in a mixed boundary v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Davies%20%28museum%20director%29 | Sir Martin Davies, CBE FBA FSA (22 March 1908 – 7 March 1975) was a British museum director and civil servant. He worked at the National Gallery in London from 1930 to 1973, and was Director from 1968.
Davies attended Rugby School, and thereafter read mathematics and modern languages at King's College, Cambridge. He... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure%208 | Figure 8 (figure of 8 in British English) may refer to:
8 (number), in Arabic numerals
Geography
Figure Eight Island, North Carolina, United States
Figure Eight Lake, Alberta, Canada
Figure-Eight Loops, feature of the Historic Columbia River Highway in Guy W. Talbot State Park
Mathematics and sciences
∞, symb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20spectrometry%20data%20format | Mass spectrometry is a scientific technique for measuring the mass-to-charge ratio of ions. It is often coupled to chromatographic techniques such as gas- or liquid chromatography and has found widespread adoption in the fields of analytical chemistry and biochemistry where it can be used to identify and characterize s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry%20Dubyago | Dmitry Ivanovich Dubyago (Дмитрий Иванович Дубяго in Russian) (September 21 (N.S. October 3), 1849 – October 22, 1918) was a Russian astronomer and expert in theoretical astrophysics, astrometry, and gravimetry. A crater on the Moon is named after Dmitry Dubyago.
See also
Alexander Dubyago
crater Dubyago
Referenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream%20processing | In computer science, stream processing (also known as event stream processing, data stream processing, or distributed stream processing) is a programming paradigm which views streams, or sequences of events in time, as the central input and output objects of computation. Stream processing encompasses dataflow programmi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Dubyago | Alexander Dmitriyevich Dubyago (Александр Дмитриевич Дубяго in Russian) (December 5(18), 1903, Kazan - October 29, 1959, Kazan) was a Soviet astronomer and expert in theoretical astrophysics. The lunar crater Dubyago is named after him and his father, Dmitry Ivanovich Dubyago.
References
1903 births
1959 deaths
Scien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwartz%E2%80%93Zippel%20lemma | In mathematics, the Schwartz–Zippel lemma (also called the DeMillo–Lipton–Schwartz–Zippel lemma) is a tool commonly used in probabilistic polynomial identity testing, i.e. in the problem of determining whether a given multivariate polynomial is the
0-polynomial (or identically equal to 0). It was discovered independent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiphysics%20simulation | In computational modelling, multiphysics simulation (often shortened to simply "multiphysics") is defined as the simultaneous simulation of different aspects of a physical system or systems and the interactions among them. For example, simultaneous simulation of the physical stress on an object, the temperature distrib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Sally | Paul Joseph Sally, Jr. (January 29, 1933 – December 30, 2013) was a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago, where he was the director of undergraduate studies for 30 years. His research areas were p-adic analysis and representation theory.
He created several programs to improve the preparation of school... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keum%20Na-na | Keum Nana (금나나, born 19 August 1983) is the winner of Miss Korea 2002. She participated in the Miss Universe pageant in 2003. She attended but dropped out of Kyungpook National University School of Medicine in pursuit of undergraduate studies at Harvard University. She graduated from Harvard University in 2008, where ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Lusztig | George Lusztig (born Gheorghe Lusztig; May 20, 1946) is a Romanian-born American mathematician and Abdun Nur Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a Norbert Wiener Professor in the Department of Mathematics from 1999 to 2009.
Education and career
Born in Timișoara to a Hungarian-Jewish f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20C.%20Evans | Lawrence Craig Evans (born November 1, 1949) is an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.
His research is in the field of nonlinear partial differential equations, primarily elliptic equations. In 2004, he shared the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg%20drop | Egg drop may refer to:
Egg drop competition, an experiment usually performed by students
Egg drop soup, a Chinese soup dish
Eggdrop, a popular IRC bot
Egg Drop, an episode of the television series Modern Family
Egg drop syndrome or EDS, a bird disease caused by an avian adenovirus
Egg dropping puzzle, a popular proble... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alatau%2C%20Kazakhstan | Alatau (, Alatau; from Turkic languages: "motley mountain") is a town in Almaty Region, in south-eastern Kazakhstan, 15 km away from Almaty.
The town is notable for its Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kazakhstan National Nuclear Center (formerly of the Kazakh SSR Academy of Sciences), which houses an experimental nuclea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixing%20ratio | In chemistry and physics, the dimensionless mixing ratio is the abundance of one component of a mixture relative to that of all other components. The term can refer either to mole ratio (see concentration) or mass ratio (see stoichiometry).
In atmospheric chemistry and meteorology
Mole ratio
In atmospheric chemistry,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeworld | Lifeworld (or life-world) () may be conceived as a universe of what is self-evident or given, a world that subjects may experience together. The concept was popularized by Edmund Husserl, who emphasized its role as the ground of all knowledge in lived experience. It has its origin in biology and cultural Protestantism.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20physics | Solar physics is the branch of astrophysics that specializes in the study of the Sun. It deals with detailed measurements that are possible only for our closest star. It intersects with many disciplines of pure physics, astrophysics, and computer science, including fluid dynamics, plasma physics including magnetohydro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhava%20of%20Sangamagrama | Mādhava of Sangamagrāma (Mādhavan) () was an Indian mathematician and astronomer who is considered as the founder of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. One of the greatest mathematician-astronomers of the Late Middle Ages, Madhava made pioneering contributions to the study of infinite series, calculus, tri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jye%E1%B9%A3%E1%B9%ADhadeva | Jyeṣṭhadeva (Malayalam: ജ്യേഷ്ഠദേവൻ) () was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama (). He is best known as the author of Yuktibhāṣā, a commentary in Malayalam of Tantrasamgraha by Nilakantha Somayaji (1444–1544). In Yuktibhāṣā, Jyeṣṭhadeva had gi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achyutha%20Pisharadi | Achyuta Pisharodi (c. 1550 at Thrikkandiyur (aka Kundapura), Tirur, Kerala, India – 7 July 1621 in Kerala) was a Sanskrit grammarian, astrologer, astronomer and mathematician who studied under Jyeṣṭhadeva and was a member of Madhava of Sangamagrama's Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. He is remembered mainly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melpathur%20Narayana%20Bhattathiri | Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri ( Mēlpattūr Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭatiri; 1560–1646/1666), third student of Achyuta Pisharati, was a member of Madhava of Sangamagrama's Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. He was a mathematical linguist (vyakarana). His most important scholarly work, Prakriya-sarvasvam, sets forth an axio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon%20Datz | Sheldon Datz (July 21, 1927 – August 15, 2001) was an American chemist. Born in New York City as the son of Clara and Jacob Datz, he went to Stuyvesant High School and received a degree in chemistry from Columbia University and the University of Tennessee. Along with Dr. Ellison Taylor, Datz was an early contributor t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle%20bundle | In mathematics, a circle bundle is a fiber bundle where the fiber is the circle .
Oriented circle bundles are also known as principal U(1)-bundles, or equivalently, as principal SO(2)-bundles. In physics, circle bundles are the natural geometric setting for electromagnetism. A circle bundle is a special case of a sphe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parham%20Aarabi | Parham Aarabi (, born August 25, 1976) is a professor and entrepreneur from Toronto, Canada.
Career
Aarabi is a professor at University of Toronto and Canada Research Chair in Internet Video, Audio, and Image Search. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He is the inventor of numerous pate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-homeomorphism | In mathematics, the y-homeomorphism, or crosscap slide, is a special type of auto-homeomorphism in non-orientable surfaces.
It can be constructed by sliding a Möbius band included on the surface
around an essential 1-sided closed curve until the original position; thus it is necessary that the surfaces have genus gre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20Hunebelle | André Hunebelle (1 September 1896 – 27 November 1985) was a French maître verrier (master glassmaker) and film director.
Master Glass Artist
After attending polytechnic school for mathematics, he became a decorator, a designer, and then a master glass maker in the mid-1920s (first recorded exhibition PARIS 1927 includ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemists%20Without%20Borders | Chemists Without Borders is a non-governmental organization involved in international development work designed to solve humanitarian problems through chemistry and related activities. As a public benefit, non-profit organization, the primary goals of Chemists Without Borders include:
providing affordable medicines an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard%20J.%20Holzmann | Gerard J. Holzmann (born 1951) is a Dutch-American computer scientist and researcher at Bell Labs and NASA, best known as the developer of the SPIN model checker.
Biography
Holzmann was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands and received an Engineer's degree in electrical engineering from the Delft University of Technology i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChemComm | ChemComm (or Chemical Communications), formerly known as Journal of the Chemical Society D: Chemical Communications (1969–1971), Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications (1972–1995), is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. It covers all aspects of chemistry. In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction%20to%20quantum%20mechanics | Quantum mechanics is the study of matter and its interactions with energy on the scale of atomic and subatomic particles. By contrast, classical physics explains matter and energy only on a scale familiar to human experience, including the behavior of astronomical bodies such as the moon. Classical physics is still use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMSOL%20Multiphysics | COMSOL Multiphysics is a finite element analysis, solver, and simulation software package for various physics and engineering applications, especially coupled phenomena and multiphysics. The software facilitates conventional physics-based user interfaces and coupled systems of partial differential equations (PDEs). COM... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferricyanide | Ferricyanide is the anion [Fe(CN)6]3−. It is also called hexacyanoferrate(III) and in rare, but systematic nomenclature, hexacyanidoferrate(III). The most common salt of this anion is potassium ferricyanide, a red crystalline material that is used as an oxidant in organic chemistry.
Properties
[Fe(CN)6]3− consists of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Lindsay | Gregory John Lindsay AO (b. 1949) was until 2018 the Executive Director of the Australian think tank the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), which he founded in 1976 when a young mathematics teacher in the western suburbs of Sydney. CIS has become influential in Australia and New Zealand.
Biography
Lindsay initially... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromine%20number | In chemistry, the bromine number is the amount of bromine () in grams absorbed by 100 g of a sample. The bromine number was once used as a measure of aliphatic unsaturation in gasoline and related petroleum samples, but this assay has fallen into disuse with the introduction of spectroscopic and chromatographic analyse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Picinbono | Bernard Picinbono is a French scientist born in 1933 in Algiers. His scientific work focuses on statistics and its applications in optics, electronics, signal processing and automation.
Biography
He did his secondary and higher education in Algiers and then in Paris where he obtained the agrégation de sciences physiq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Johnson%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Ralph E. Johnson is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a co-author of the influential computer science textbook Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, for which he won the 2010 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Bertrand%20Castel | Louis Bertrand Castel (5 November 1688 – 11 January 1757) was a French mathematician born in Montpellier, who entered the order of the Jesuits in 1703. Having studied literature, he afterwards devoted himself entirely to mathematics and natural philosophy. After moving from Toulouse to Paris in 1720, at the behest of B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Design%20for%20Learning | Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational framework based on research in the learning sciences, including cognitive neuroscience, that guides the development of flexible learning environments and learning spaces that can accommodate individual learning differences.
Universal Design for learning is a set of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20grade | A grade is a taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity. The term was coined by British biologist Julian Huxley, to contrast with clade, a strictly phylogenetic unit.
Phylogenetics
In order to fully understand evolutionary grades, one must first get a better understanding of phylogenetics: th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handle%20decompositions%20of%203-manifolds | In mathematics, a handle decomposition of a 3-manifold allows simplification of the original 3-manifold into pieces which are easier to study.
Heegaard splittings
An important method used to decompose into handlebodies is the Heegaard splitting, which gives us a decomposition in two handlebodies of equal genus.
Exam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20complexity | In logic and theoretical computer science, and specifically proof theory and computational complexity theory, proof complexity is the field aiming to understand and analyse the computational resources that are required to prove or refute statements. Research in proof complexity is predominantly concerned with proving p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich%20Galichon | Richie Alan (born Richard Alan Galichon; 1968 in NY) is an independent studio drummer. He grew up in Valley Stream, New York and attended Valley Stream Central High School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from Queens College, City University of New York and pursued a Master of Business Administration ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20covalent%20chemistry | Dynamic covalent chemistry (DCvC) is a synthetic strategy employed by chemists to make complex molecular and supramolecular assemblies from discrete molecular building blocks. DCvC has allowed access to complex assemblies such as covalent organic frameworks, molecular knots, polymers, and novel macrocycles. Not to be c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MWI | MWI is the country code for Malawi in several country code systems.
MWI may also refer to:
Science and technology
Many-worlds interpretation, in quantum mechanics
Message-waiting indicator, in telephony
Mobile Web Initiative, in Mobile Web
Maths Week Ireland, an all-island (Republic of Ireland and Northern Irela... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLT | MLT may refer to:
People
MLT (hacktivist)
Computing and technology
Mean Length Turn in wound electrical components
Mechanized loop testing, in the Loop maintenance operations system
Media Lovin' Toolkit, TV software
Metropolis light transport, a computational algorithm
Modulated lapped transform in mathematics
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIG | NIG or Nig may refer to:
NIG (insurance company)
Nig (nickname), various people
Nig, Iran
Nig, a canton in Ayrarat, Armenia
Naigaon railway station (station code: NIG)
National Institute of Genetics
Ngalakgan language (ISO 639:nig)
Niger, IOC country code
Nigeria, ITU country code
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbalanced%20line | In telecommunications and electrical engineering in general, an unbalanced line is a pair of conductors intended to carry electrical signals, which have unequal impedances along their lengths and to ground and other circuits. Examples of unbalanced lines are coaxial cable or the historic earth return system invented fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20E.%20O%27Hanlon | Michael Edward O'Hanlon (born May 16, 1961) is the director of research and senior fellow of the foreign policy program at The Brookings Institution. He began his career as a budget analyst in the defense field.
Biography
Education and early career
O'Hanlon earned an A.B. in 1982 (in physics), M.S.E. in 1987, M.A. in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto%20Peccei | Roberto Daniele Peccei (; January 6, 1942 – June 1, 2020) was a theoretical particle physicist whose principal interests lay in the area of electroweak interactions and in the interface between particle physics and physical cosmology. He was most known for formulating the Peccei–Quinn theory (with Helen Quinn), which a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel%20Borenstein | Nathaniel S. Borenstein (born September 23, 1957) is an American computer scientist.
He is one of the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail and sent the first e-mail attachment.
Biography
Borenstein received a B.A. in mathematics and religious studies from Grinnell ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht%20F%C3%B6lsing | Albrecht Fölsing (1940 in Bad Salzungen – 8 April 2018 in Hamburg) was a trained physicist turned into a scientific journalist. Having studied physics in Berlin, Philadelphia, and Hamburg, he worked as an academic research assistant for the German electron synchrotron named DESY. In the years 1973–2001, Fölsing was hea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Poulter | Thomas Charles Poulter (March 3, 1897 – June 4, 1978) was an American scientist and antarctic explorer who worked at the Armour Institute of Technology and SRI International, where he was an associate director.
Early career
Poulter taught physics while attending high school (1914-1918), joined the U.S. Navy in 1918 an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidosaphes%20ulmi | Lepidosaphes ulmi also known as apple mussel scale or oystershell scale is a widely invasive scale insect that is a pest of trees and woody plants. The small insects attach themselves to bark and cause injury by sucking the tree's sap; this metabolic drain on the plant may kill a branch or the entire tree.
Biology
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eysenck%20Personality%20Questionnaire | In psychology, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) is a questionnaire to assess the personality traits of a person. It was devised by psychologists Hans Jürgen Eysenck and Sybil B. G. Eysenck.
Hans Eysenck's theory is based primarily on physiology and genetics. Although he was a behaviorist who considered lear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic%20name | Generic name may refer to:
Generic name (biology), the name of a biological genus
Placeholder name, words that can refer to objects or people whose names are temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, or unknown
Business and law
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20Hertwig | Oscar Hertwig (21 April 1849 in Friedberg – 25 October 1922 in Berlin) was a German embryologist and zoologist known for his research in developmental biology and evolution. Hertwig is credited as the first man to observe sexual reproduction by looking at the cells of sea urchins under the microscope.
Biography
Hertw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves%20Cochet | Yves Cochet (; born 15 February 1946) is a French politician, member of Europe Écologie–The Greens. He was minister in the government of Lionel Jospin. On 6 December 2011, he was elected member of the European Parliament (MEP).
He studied Mathematics and became researcher-lecturer at Institut National des Sciences App... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert%20Schroer | Bert Schroer (born 10 November 1933 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany) is a German mathematical physicist, now a visiting professor in Rio de Janeiro and an emeritus professor in Berlin, who is known for his work on algebraic quantum field theory, braid groups, infraparticles, and other issues related to quantum field theory.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester%20James%20Gates | Sylvester James Gates Jr. (born December 15, 1950), known as S. James Gates Jr. or Jim Gates, is an American theoretical physicist who works on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory. He currently holds the Clark Leadership Chair in Science with the physics department at the University of Maryland College ... |
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