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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Ross%20%28astrophysicist%29 | Hugh Norman Ross (born July 24, 1945) is a Canadian astrophysicist, Christian apologist, and old-Earth creationist.
Ross obtained his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Toronto and his B.Sc. degree in physics from the University of British Columbia. He established his own ministry in 1986, called Reasons to Bel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Agapeyeff%20cipher | The D'Agapeyeff cipher is an unsolved cipher that appears in the first edition of Codes and Ciphers, an elementary book on cryptography published by the Russian-born English cryptographer and cartographer Alexander D'Agapeyeff in 1939.
Offered as a "challenge cipher" at the end of the book, the ciphertext is:
It was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binoy%20Majumdar | Binoy Majumdar () (17 September 1934 – 11 December 2006) was a Bengali poet that had received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005.
Biography
Binoy Majumdar was born in Myanmar (erstwhile Burma) on 17 September 1934. His family later moved to what is now Thakurnagar West Bengal in India. Binoy loved mathematics from his ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%20Signer | Rudolf Signer (17 March 1903, Herisau, Switzerland – 1 December 1990, Gümlingen, Switzerland) contributed to the discovery of the DNA double helix. He was a Professor for organic chemistry at the University of Bern from 1935 until 1972.
Education
Signer was the son of Jakob Signer, a chemical scientist working in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological%20horizon | A cosmological horizon is a measure of the distance from which one could possibly retrieve information. This observable constraint is due to various properties of general relativity, the expanding universe, and the physics of Big Bang cosmology. Cosmological horizons set the size and scale of the observable universe. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZetaGrid | ZetaGrid was at one time the largest distributed computing project, designed to explore the non-trivial roots of the Riemann zeta function, checking over one billion roots a day.
Roots of the zeta function are of particular interest in mathematics; a single root out of alignment would disprove the Riemann hypothesis, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Aebischer | Patrick Aebischer (born 22 November 1954 in Fribourg, Switzerland) has been the president of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) from 17 March 2000 to 31 December 2016. He is also a professor in neuroscience and head of the Neurodegenerative Disease Laboratory at the EPFL.
Education
Aebischer was train... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unifying%20Theories%20of%20Programming | Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP) in computer science deals with program semantics. It shows how denotational semantics, operational semantics and algebraic semantics can be combined in a unified framework for the formal specification, design and implementation of programs and computer systems.
The book of this t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%20Jifeng | He Jifeng (, born August 1943) is a Chinese computer scientist.
He Jifeng graduated from the mathematics department of Fudan University in 1965. From 1965 to 1985, he was an instructor at East China Normal University. During 1980–81, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the University of San Francisco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessile%20drop%20technique | In materials science, the sessile drop technique is a method used for the characterization of solid surface energies, and in some cases, aspects of liquid surface energies. The main premise of the method is that by placing a droplet of liquid with a known surface energy and contact angle, the surface energy of the soli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Bettinus | Mario Bettinus (Italian name: Mario Bettini; 6 February 1582 – 7 November 1657) was an Italian Jesuit philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. The lunar crater Bettinus was named after him by Giovanni Riccioli in 1651.
Biography
Mario Bettinus studied mathematics under the Belgian Jean Verviers and Giuseppe Biancan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist%20controller | A hoist controller is the controller for a hoist. The term is used primarily in the context of electrically operated hoists, but it is apparent that the control systems of many 20th century steam hoists also incorporated controllers of significant complexity. Consider the control system of the Quincy Mine No. 2 Hoist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemannian%20submersion | In differential geometry, a branch of mathematics, a Riemannian submersion is a submersion from one Riemannian manifold to another that respects the metrics, meaning that it is an orthogonal projection on tangent spaces.
Formal definition
Let (M, g) and (N, h) be two Riemannian manifolds and a (surjective) submersio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-dimensional%20space | A five-dimensional space is a space with five dimensions. In mathematics, a sequence of N numbers can represent a location in an N-dimensional space. If interpreted physically, that is one more than the usual three spatial dimensions and the fourth dimension of time used in relativistic physics. Whether or not the univ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20F.%20W.%20Borgward | Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward (10 November 1890 in Altona, Hamburg – 28 July 1963 in Bremen) was a German engineer and designer and the creator of the Borgward group, based in Bremen.
Biography
He was of modest origin, the son of coal retailer Wilhelm Borgward, and had twelve brothers and sisters. He undertook mecha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney%20disk | In mathematics, given two submanifolds A and B of a manifold X intersecting in two points p and q, a Whitney disc is a mapping from the two-dimensional disc D, with two marked points, to X, such that the two marked points go to p and q, one boundary arc of D goes to A and the other to B.
Their existence and embeddedne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraborate | In chemistry, tetraborate or pyroborate is an anion (negative ion) with formula ; or a salt containing that anion, such as sodium tetraborate, . It is one of the boron oxoacids, that is, a borate.
The name is also applied to the hydrated ion as present in borax
The ion occurs in boric acid solutions at neutral pH, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium%20metallurgy | In materials science and materials engineering, uranium metallurgy is the study of the physical and chemical behavior of uranium and its alloys.
Commercial-grade uranium can be produced through the reduction of uranium halides with alkali or alkaline earth metals. Uranium metal can also be made through electrolysis of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WalkSAT | In computer science, GSAT and WalkSAT are local search algorithms to solve Boolean satisfiability problems.
Both algorithms work on formulae in Boolean logic that are in, or have been converted into conjunctive normal form. They start by assigning a random value to each variable in the formula. If the assignment satis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svyatoslav%20Piskun | Svyatoslav Mykhaylovych Piskun (, born 1 March 1959) was 3 times Prosecutor General of Ukraine. He served in this role in 2002–2003, 2005 and 2007 until President Viktor Yushchenko's dismissed Piskun on 24 May 2007. He worked as a prosecutor in several important cases, including murder of Georgiy Gongadze and investiga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leray%20cover | In mathematics, a Leray cover(ing) is a cover of a topological space which allows for easy calculation of its cohomology. Such covers are named after Jean Leray.
Sheaf cohomology measures the extent to which a locally exact sequence on a fixed topological space, for instance the de Rham sequence, fails to be globall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient%20space%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, especially in geometry and topology, an ambient space is the space surrounding a mathematical object along with the object itself. For example, a 1-dimensional line may be studied in isolation —in which case the ambient space of is , or it may be studied as an object embedded in 2-dimensional Euclide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed%20bandit | In probability theory and machine learning, the multi-armed bandit problem (sometimes called the K- or N-armed bandit problem) is a problem in which a fixed limited set of resources must be allocated between competing (alternative) choices in a way that maximizes their expected gain, when each choice's properties are o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Stanford | Craig Stanford is Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at the University of Southern California. He is also a Research Associate in the herpetology section of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. He is known for his field studies of the behavior, ecology and conservation biology of chimpanzees, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-volt%20battery | The nine-volt battery, or 9-volt battery, is an electric battery that supplies a nominal voltage of 9 volts. Actual voltage measures 7.2 to 9.6 volts, depending on battery chemistry. Batteries of various sizes and capacities are manufactured; a very common size is known as PP3, introduced for early transistor radios. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caleb%20Gattegno | Caleb Gattegno (1911–1988) was an Egyptian educator, psychologist, and mathematician. He is considered one of the most influential and prolific mathematics educators of the twentieth century. He is best known for introducing new approaches to teaching and learning mathematics (Visible & Tangible Math), foreign language... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSL%20Numerical%20Libraries | IMSL (International Mathematics and Statistics Library) is a commercial collection of software libraries of numerical analysis functionality that are implemented in the computer programming languages C, Java, C#.NET, and Fortran. A Python interface is also available.
The IMSL Libraries were developed by Visual Numeric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Parnell%20%28scientist%29 | Thomas Parnell (5 July 1881 – 1 September 1948) was the first Professor of Physics at the University of Queensland. He started the famous pitch drop experiment there.
Education
Thomas Parnell was born in West Haddon, Northamptonshire, England and died in Indooroopilly in Brisbane, Australia. He was educated at St Joh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Gehrlein | William V. Gehrlein (born 1946) is a notable researcher in the areas of social choice theory, decision theory and graph theory. He received his B.S. in physics from Gannon College in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1968, his M.S. in physics from Pennsylvania State University in 1972, and his Ph.D. in business administration fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimer | Trimer may refer to:
Trimer (chemistry), a reaction product composed of three identical molecules
Protein trimer, a compound of three macromolecules non-covalently bound
Efimov trimer, a weakly bound quantum mechanical state of three identical particles
Trimer, Ille-et-Vilaine, a commune in France
See also
Trime... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s%20Get%20Together%20Now | Let's Get Together Now is the official local song of the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in South Korea and Japan. Performed by the Supergroup Voice of Korea/Japan (Lena Park and Brown Eyes from South Korea and Sowelu and Chemistry from Japan), it was released in three separate versions: a full Japanese version, a full Korean... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet%20Creighton | Harriet Baldwin Creighton (27 June 1909 – January 9, 2004) was an American botanist, geneticist and educator.
Background
Born in Delavan, Illinois, Creighton graduated from Wellesley College in 1929, and went on to complete her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1933.
Career
During her time at Cornell she worked in the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%20value%20%28nuclear%20science%29 | In nuclear physics and chemistry, the value for a reaction is the amount of energy absorbed or released during the nuclear reaction. The value relates to the enthalpy of a chemical reaction or the energy of radioactive decay products. It can be determined from the masses of reactants and products. values affect reac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa%20Gross%20Horwitz%20Prize | The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry is an annual prize awarded by Columbia University to a researcher or group of researchers who have made an outstanding contribution in basic research in the fields of biology or biochemistry.
The prize was established at the bequest of S. Gross Horwitz and is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Placzek | George Placzek (; September 26, 1905 – October 9, 1955) was a Moravian physicist.
Biography
Placzek was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Brünn, Moravia (now Brno, Czech Republic), the grandson of Chief Rabbi Baruch Placzek. He studied physics in Prague and Vienna.
In the 1930s, Placzek was known as an adventurou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall%20Division%20of%20Cell%20and%20Molecular%20Biophysics | The Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics (the Randall) is a research institute of King's College London located in London United Kingdom. It is a centre for study in allergy and asthma; muscle signalling and development; structural biology; muscle biophysics; cell motility and cytoskeleton, and cell imagin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeezed | Squeezed may refer to:
Squeezed (film), a 2007 Australian documentary
Squeezed (EP), an EP by What Is This?
Squeezed, an album by Orange Range
Compression (physical)
See also
Squeezed coherent state, in physics, a state of the quantum mechanical Hilbert space
Squeeze (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry%20%26%20Topology | Geometry & Topology is a peer-refereed, international mathematics research journal devoted to geometry and topology, and their applications. It is currently based at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, and published by Mathematical Sciences Publishers, a nonprofit academic publishing organisation.
It was foun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffman%20Memorial%20Union | Coffman Memorial Union (commonly known as Coffman Union or simply Coffman) is a student union on the East Bank campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Situated near the Mississippi River, Coffman anchors the south end of Northrop Mall, a grassy area at the center of campus that is bordered by the universi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envelope%20%28motion%29 | In mechanical engineering, an envelope is a solid representing all positions which may be occupied by an object during its normal range of motion.
Another (jargon) word for this is a "flop".
Wheel envelope
In automobile design, a wheel envelope may be used to model all positions a wheel and tire combo may be expected... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20S.%20Lam | Simon S. Lam is an American computer scientist. He retired in 2018 from The University of Texas at Austin as Professor Emeritus and Regents' Chair Emeritus in Computer Science #1. He made seminal and important contributions to transport layer security, packet network verification, as well as network protocol design, ve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preset | Preset may refer to:
Default (computer science), a setting or value automatically assigned to a software application, computer program, etc.
Preset (electronics), a variable component on a device only accessible to manufacturing or maintenance personnel
Pre-programmed setting on various electronic products and musi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axolemma | In neuroscience, the axolemma (, and 'axo-' from axon) is the cell membrane of an axon, the branch of a neuron through which signals (action potentials) are transmitted. The axolemma is a three-layered, bilipid membrane. Under standard electron microscope preparations, the structure is approximately 8 nanometers thick.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive%20data%20structure | In computer science and object-oriented programming, a passive data structure (PDS), also termed a plain old data structure or plain old data (POD), is a record, in contrast with objects. It is a data structure that is represented only as passive collections of field values (instance variables), without using object-or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleb | Bleb may refer to:
Bleb (cell biology), an irregular bulge in the plasma membrane of a cell
Bleb (medicine), a large blister filled with serous fluid, or jargon for an outpouching of any kind, from a vessel (see Aneurysm), or an air pocket in the lungs (see Focal lung pneumatosis)
Bleb (mineralogy), a small bubble-l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%20Chambers | Christina Chambers (born October 24, 1969) is an American actress and model.
Personal life
Chambers was born in Alexandria, Virginia, into a family of academics, both parents holding doctorates (her father's in physics and her mother's in mathematics). She is the next-to-youngest of four siblings. Chambers admits to b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorization | In mathematics, majorization is a preorder on vectors of real numbers. Let denote the -th largest element of the vector . Given , we say that weakly majorizes (or dominates) from below (or equivalently, we say that is weakly majorized (or dominated) by from below) denoted as if for all . If in addition , we say ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Allen%20%28physicist%29 | Bruce Allen (born May 11, 1959) is an American physicist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover Germany and leader of the Einstein@Home project for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. He is also a physics professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the initiator / proj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Shenker | Stephen Hart Shenker (born 1953) is an American theoretical physicist who works on string theory. He is a professor at Stanford University and former director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His brother Scott Shenker is a computer scientist.
Work
Shenker's contributions to physics include:
Basic re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy%20Fischler | Willy Fischler (born 1949 in Antwerp, Belgium) is a theoretical physicist. He is the Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is affiliated with the Weinberg theory group. He is also a certified Flight Paramedic (FP-C) and was a Licensed Paramedic with Marb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-folding | In science, e-folding is the time interval in which an exponentially growing quantity increases by a factor of e; it is the base-e analog of doubling time. This term is often used in many areas of science, such as in atmospheric chemistry, medicine and theoretical physics, especially when cosmic inflation is investigat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrazide | Hydrazides in organic chemistry are a class of organic compounds with the formula where R is acyl (), sulfonyl (), phosphoryl (), phosphonyl () and similar groups (chalcogen analogs are included, for example sulfur analogs called thiohydrazides), and R' are any groups (tipically hydrogen or organyl). Unlike hydrazine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%E2%80%93Pasta%E2%80%93Ulam%E2%80%93Tsingou%20problem | In physics, the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou (FPUT) problem or formerly the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam problem was the apparent paradox in chaos theory that many complicated enough physical systems exhibited almost exactly periodic behavior – called Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou recurrence (or Fermi–Pasta–Ulam recurrence) – instead of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%20functional | In mathematical physics, some approaches to quantum field theory are more popular than others. For historical reasons, the Schrödinger representation is less favored than Fock space methods. In the early days of quantum field theory, maintaining symmetries such as Lorentz invariance, displaying them manifestly, and pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian%20lattice%20gauge%20theory | In physics, Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory is a calculational approach to gauge theory and a special case of lattice gauge theory in which the space is discretized but time is not. The Hamiltonian is then re-expressed as a function of degrees of freedom defined on a d-dimensional lattice.
Following Wilson, the spati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion%20rules | In mathematics and theoretical physics, fusion rules are rules that determine the exact decomposition of the tensor product of two representations of a group into a direct sum of irreducible representations. The term is often used in the context of two-dimensional conformal field theory where the relevant group is gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal%20family | In theoretical physics, a conformal family is an irreducible representation of the Virasoro algebra. In most cases, it is uniquely determined by its primary field or the highest weight vector. The family contains all of its descendant fields.
References
See also
Conformal field theory
Conformal field theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphoenolpyruvic%20acid | Phosphoenolpyruvate (2-phosphoenolpyruvate, PEP) is the ester derived from the enol of pyruvate and phosphate. It exists as an anion. PEP is an important intermediate in biochemistry. It has the highest-energy phosphate bond found (−61.9 kJ/mol) in organisms, and is involved in glycolysis and gluconeogenesis. In plan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20unsolved%20problems%20in%20chemistry | This is a list of unsolved problems in chemistry. Problems in chemistry are considered unsolved when an expert in the field considers it unsolved or when several experts in the field disagree about a solution to a problem.
Physical chemistry problems
Can the transition temperature of high-temperature superconductors... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz%20Eichstadt | Lorentz Eichstadt (10 August 1596 – 8 June 1660) was a German mathematician and astronomer. He was a doctor of medicine in Szczecin in Pomerania and taught medicine and mathematics in Danzig.
The lunar crater Eichstadt is named after him.
References
External links
Lunar Republic: Craters. Retrieved October 8, 2005.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equipotential | In mathematics and physics, an equipotential or isopotential refers to a region in space where every point is at the same potential. This usually refers to a scalar potential (in that case it is a level set of the potential), although it can also be applied to vector potentials. An equipotential of a scalar potential ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20Biology%20%28journal%29 | Molecular Biology is a scientific journal which covers a wide scope of problems related to molecular, cell, and computational biology including genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, molecular virology and immunology, molecular development biology, and molecular evolution. Molecular Biology publishes reviews, mini-revie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsically%20disordered%20proteins | In molecular biology, an intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) is a protein that lacks a fixed or ordered three-dimensional structure, typically in the absence of its macromolecular interaction partners, such as other proteins or RNA. IDPs range from fully unstructured to partially structured and include random coil, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRH | SRH may refer to:
Scottish Radio Holdings
Sexual and reproductive health
Shockley-Read-Hall recombination in solid-state physics
Socialist Republic of Croatia
Storm relative helicity in meteorology
Streatham Hill railway station, London, National Rail station code SRH
Sunrisers Hyderabad, an Indian cricket team
SRH Pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse%20homology | In mathematics, specifically in the field of differential topology, Morse homology is a homology theory defined for any smooth manifold. It is constructed using the smooth structure and an auxiliary metric on the manifold, but turns out to be topologically invariant, and is in fact isomorphic to singular homology. Mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoliy%20Skorokhod | Anatoliy Volodymyrovych Skorokhod (; September 10, 1930January 3, 2011) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician.
Skorokhod is well-known for a comprehensive treatise on the theory of stochastic processes, co-authored with Gikhman.
Career
Skorokhod worked at Kyiv University from 1956 to 1964. He was subsequently at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headwall | In physical geography and geology, the headwall of a glacial cirque is its highest cliff. The term has been more broadly used to describe similar geomorphic features of non-glacial origin consisting of a concave depression with convergent slopes typically of 65 percent or greater forming the upper end of a drainage val... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20National%20Standards%20Institute%20Nanotechnology%20Panel | The American National Standards Institute–Nanotechnology Standards Panel (ANSI-NSP) enables stakeholders in nanotechnology to work together to coordinate the development of voluntary standards. Such standards include terminology and materials properties and measurement procedures to facilitate commercialization of appl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian%20Conservation%20Biology%20Institute | The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) is a unit of the Smithsonian Institution located on a campus located just outside the town of Front Royal, Virginia. An extension of the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., the SCBI has played a leading role in the fields of veterinary medicine, reproductive physiolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiral%20auxiliary | In stereochemistry, a chiral auxiliary is a stereogenic group or unit that is temporarily incorporated into an organic compound in order to control the stereochemical outcome of the synthesis. The chirality present in the auxiliary can bias the stereoselectivity of one or more subsequent reactions. The auxiliary can th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-2-Phenyl-1-cyclohexanol | trans-2-Phenyl-1-cyclohexanol is an organic compound. The two enantiomers of this compound are used in organic chemistry as chiral auxiliaries.
Preparation
The enantioselective synthesis was accomplished by J. K. Whitesell by adding Pseudomonas fluorescens lipase to racemic trans-2-phenylcyclohexyl chloroacetate. Thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocycle | In mathematics a cocycle is a closed cochain. Cocycles are used in algebraic topology to express obstructions (for example, to integrating a differential equation on a closed manifold). They are likewise used in group cohomology. In autonomous dynamical systems, cocycles are used to describe particular kinds of map,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Harper%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Robert William "Bob" Harper, Jr. (born ) is a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who works in programming language research. Prior to his position at Carnegie Mellon, Harper was a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
Career
Harper made major contributions to the design of the Standard ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohlmeyer%20charge | In theoretical physics Pohlmeyer charge, named for Klaus Pohlmeyer, is a conserved charge invariant under the Virasoro algebra or its generalization. It can be obtained by expanding the holonomies (generating functions)
with respect to the constant matrices T. The gauge field is defined as a combination of and its c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic%20Biology | A Civic Biology: Presented in Problems (usually referred to as just Civic Biology) was a biology textbook written by George William Hunter, published in 1914. It is the book which the state of Tennessee required high school teachers to use in 1925 and is best known for its section about evolution that was ruled by a lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery%20mathematics | Lottery mathematics is used to calculate probabilities of winning or losing a lottery game. It is based primarily on combinatorics, particularly the twelvefold way and combinations without replacement.
Choosing 6 from 49
In a typical 6/49 game, each player chooses six distinct numbers from a range of 1-49. If the six... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20George%27s%20University%20Hospitals%20NHS%20Foundation%20Trust | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, formerly called St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, is based in Tooting in the London Borough of Wandsworth, and serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and ren... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleave%20sequence | In mathematics, an interleave sequence is obtained by merging two sequences via an in shuffle.
Let be a set, and let and , be two sequences in The interleave sequence is defined to be the sequence . Formally, it is the sequence given by
Properties
The interleave sequence is convergent if and only if the se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolz%E2%80%93Ces%C3%A0ro%20theorem | In mathematics, the Stolz–Cesàro theorem is a criterion for proving the convergence of a sequence. The theorem is named after mathematicians Otto Stolz and Ernesto Cesàro, who stated and proved it for the first time.
The Stolz–Cesàro theorem can be viewed as a generalization of the Cesàro mean, but also as a l'Hôpita... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%20lattice | In mathematics, the square lattice is a type of lattice in a two-dimensional Euclidean space. It is the two-dimensional version of the integer lattice, denoted as . It is one of the five types of two-dimensional lattices as classified by their symmetry groups; its symmetry group in IUC notation as , Coxeter notation as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scirus | Scirus was a comprehensive science-specific search engine, first launched in 2001. Like CiteSeerX and Google Scholar, it was focused on scientific information. Unlike CiteSeerX, Scirus was not only for computer sciences and IT and not all of the results included full text. It also sent its scientific search results to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidya%20Vardhaka%20College%20of%20Engineering | Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering (VVCE) is a premier autonomous institute under VTU situated in Gokulam, Mysuru, Karnataka, India. As an autonomous institution, it follows the guidelines set by Visvesvaraya Technological University. It offers courses on Computer science, Information science, Artificial Intelligenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%E2%80%93momentum%20relation | In physics, the energy–momentum relation, or relativistic dispersion relation, is the relativistic equation relating total energy (which is also called relativistic energy) to invariant mass (which is also called rest mass) and momentum. It is the extension of mass–energy equivalence for bodies or systems with non-zero... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Kershaw | Les Kershaw is the former chief scout and Academy Director for Manchester United.
Kershaw studied at Manchester Metropolitan University before being recruited by United manager Alex Ferguson. He had previously acted as a part-time scout for Arsenal.
He received an award from the Royal Society of Chemistry in Septembe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anneila%20Sargent | Professor Anneila Isabel Sargent FRSE DSc (born Anneila Cassells, 1942) is a Scottish–American astronomer who specializes in star formation.
Biography
Sargent was brought up in Burntisland, Fife, and schooled at Burntisland Primary School and Kirkcaldy High School. She completed a BSc Honours degree in Physics at the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickmansworth%20School | Rickmansworth School in Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, is a coeducational secondary school and a sixth form with academy status for 1,400 pupils.
Rickmansworth is a secondary school for boys and girls aged 11 to 18 of all academic abilities, although 25% of the 11+ intake are selected using tests in mathematics and ver... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Parkin | Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin (born 9 December 1955) is an experimental physicist, director at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle and an Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the Institute of Physics of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg.
He is a pioneer in the science and applicatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20Javier%20Salazar%20S%C3%A1enz | Francisco Javier Salazar Sáenz is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party . He was the Secretary of Labor from 2005 to 2006.
Education
Salazar Sáenz studied chemistry at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and at the Universidad Iberoamericana. He received a master's degree in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tkdiff | tkdiff is a graphical diff viewer based on the Tk framework. It is capable of inter-operating with source-control systems like CVS and Subversion to show the differences between the local copy and the repository version. Such a line-by-line comparison is often considered to be good software engineering practice before... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icosahedral%20symmetry | In mathematics, and especially in geometry, an object has icosahedral symmetry if it has the same symmetries as a regular icosahedron. Examples of other polyhedra with icosahedral symmetry include the regular dodecahedron (the dual of the icosahedron) and the rhombic triacontahedron.
Every polyhedron with icosahedral ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developable%20surface | In mathematics, a developable surface (or torse: archaic) is a smooth surface with zero Gaussian curvature. That is, it is a surface that can be flattened onto a plane without distortion (i.e. it can be bent without stretching or compression). Conversely, it is a surface which can be made by transforming a plane (i.e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Methylmorpholine%20N-oxide | N-Methylmorpholine N-oxide (more correctly 4-methylmorpholine 4-oxide), NMO or NMMO is an organic compound. This heterocyclic amine oxide and morpholine derivative is used in organic chemistry as a co-oxidant and sacrificial catalyst in oxidation reactions for instance in osmium tetroxide oxidations and the Sharpless a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rel | Rel or REL may mean:
Science and technology
REL, a human gene
the rel descriptor of stereochemistry, see Relative configuration
REL (Rassemblement Européen pour la Liberté), European Rally for Liberty, a defunct French far-right party active in the 1960s
Category of relations or Rel, a mathematical category of set... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki%20Institute%20of%20Physics | The Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP, , ) is a physics research institute operated jointly by University of Helsinki, Aalto University, University of Jyväskylä, Lappeenranta University of Technology and Tampere University of Technology. The operations of the institute began on September 1, 1996. The foundation of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish%20Institute%20for%20Verification%20of%20the%20Chemical%20Weapons%20Convention | The Finnish Institute for Verification of the Chemical Weapons Convention (VERIFIN) is a Finnish institute carrying out several roles in support of chemical weapons disarmament.
Established in 1994 as a continuation of a research project started in 1973, it is located within the Chemistry Department of the Kumpula Cam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy%20A.%20Holdener | Judy Holdener (née Newhauser) is an American mathematician and educator. She is a professor of mathematics at Kenyon College. She was born in 1965. Holdener's primary interest is in number theory. She discovered a simpler proof of the theorem of Touchard, which states that every perfect number is of the form 2k, 12k+1,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20J.%20Ruane | William J. Ruane (October 24, 1925 – October 4, 2005) was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.
Ruane graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1945 with a degree in electrical engineering and from Harvard Business School in 1949. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was on his way to Japan when World... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Cr%C3%A9peau | Claude Crépeau is a professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University. Ηe was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1962. He received a master's degree from the Université de Montréal in 1986, and obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 1990, working in the field of cryptography with Silvio Mic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Molecular%20Biology | The Journal of Molecular Biology is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of molecular biology. It was established in 1959 and is published by Elsevier. The editor-in-chief is Peter Wright (The Scripps Research Institute).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly%20Clock | The Beverly Clock is a clock in the 3rd-floor lift foyer of the Department of Physics at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. The clock is still running despite never having been manually wound since its construction in 1864 by Arthur Beverly.
Operation
The clock's mechanism is driven by variations in daily ... |
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