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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proceedings%20of%20the%20Physical%20Society | The Proceedings of the Physical Society was a journal on the subject of physics, originally associated with the Physical Society of London, England. In 1968, it was replaced by the Journal of Physics.
Journal history
1874–1925: Proceedings of the Physical Society of London
1926–1948: Proceedings of the Physical S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasse%20invariant | In mathematics, Hasse invariant may refer to:
Hasse invariant of an algebra
Hasse invariant of an elliptic curve
Hasse invariant of a quadratic form |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20Society%20of%20London | The Physical Society of London, England, was a scientific society which was founded in 1874. In 1921, it was renamed the Physical Society, and in 1960 it merged with the Institute of Physics (IOP), the combined organisation eventually adopting the name of the latter society.
The society was founded due to the efforts ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasse%20invariant%20of%20a%20quadratic%20form | In mathematics, the Hasse invariant (or Hasse–Witt invariant) of a quadratic form Q over a field K takes values in the Brauer group Br(K). The name "Hasse–Witt" comes from Helmut Hasse and Ernst Witt.
The quadratic form Q may be taken as a diagonal form
Σ aixi2.
Its invariant is then defined as the product of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagonal%20form | In mathematics, a diagonal form is an algebraic form (homogeneous polynomial) without cross-terms involving different indeterminates. That is, it is
for some given degree m.
Such forms F, and the hypersurfaces F = 0 they define in projective space, are very special in geometric terms, with many symmetries. They also ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyman%20Faratin | Peyman Faratin (born September 16, 1965) is an Iranian/American computer scientist, and the founder of Robust Links, an Internet company building algorithms for creating and processing a knowledge graph.
Background
Peyman completed his PhD in computer science under the supervision of Prof. Nicholas R. Jennings and Pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriques%E2%80%93Kodaira%20classification | In mathematics, the Enriques–Kodaira classification is a classification of compact complex surfaces into ten classes. For each of these classes, the surfaces in the class can be parametrized by a moduli space. For most of the classes the moduli spaces are well understood, but for the class of surfaces of general type t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Hill%20%28automotive%20engineer%29 | David C. Hill (born January 15, 1943) is a former automotive engineer for General Motors. He is best known as the Chief Engineer for the 5th (C5) and 6th (C6) generations of the Chevrolet Corvette.
He graduated from Michigan Tech and from the University of Michigan (M.A., Mechanical Engineering 1970), and began his c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalb%E2%80%93Ramond%20field | In theoretical physics in general and string theory in particular, the Kalb–Ramond field (named after Michael Kalb and Pierre Ramond), also known as the Kalb–Ramond B-field or Kalb–Ramond NS–NS B-field, is a quantum field that transforms as a two-form, i.e., an antisymmetric tensor field with two indices.
The adjectiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rho%20meson | In particle physics, a rho meson is a short-lived hadronic particle that is an isospin triplet whose three states are denoted as , and . Along with pions and omega mesons, the rho meson carries the nuclear force within the atomic nucleus. After the pions and kaons, the rho mesons are the lightest strongly interacting ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldberger%E2%80%93Wise%20mechanism | In particle physics, the Goldberger–Wise mechanism is a popular mechanism that determines the size of the fifth dimension in Randall–Sundrum models. The mechanism uses a scalar field that propagates throughout the five-dimensional bulk. On each of the branes that end the fifth dimension (frequently referred to as the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy%20sphere | In mathematics, the fuzzy sphere is one of the simplest and most canonical examples of non-commutative geometry. Ordinarily, the functions defined on a sphere form a commuting algebra. A fuzzy sphere differs from an ordinary sphere because the algebra of functions on it is not commutative. It is generated by spherical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly%20Babko | Anatoly Babko (15 October 1905 in Sudzhenskoye, Tomsk Governorate – 7 January 1968) was a Soviet chemist, specializing in analytical chemistry and in the chemistry of complex compounds.
Babko was a student of Professor N. Tananaev, a Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic (since 1957), and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josif%20Shtokalo | Josif Zakharovich Shtokalo (; November 16, 1897 – January 5, 1987) was a famous Ukrainian mathematician. Shtokalo worked mainly in the areas of differential equations, operational calculus and the history of mathematics.
Investigation of the Stability of Lindstedt's Equation Using Shtokalo’s Method by Samuel Kohn cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso%20G%C3%B3mez-Lobo | Alfonso Gómez-Lobo (January 1, 1940 – December 31, 2011) was a professor of metaphysics and moral philosophy at Georgetown University known for his critical evaluations of modern-day ethics. He was a member of The President's Council on Bioethics of the United States.
Born in Viña del Mar, Chile in 1940, Gomez-Lobo s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20point | Zero point may refer to:
The hypocenter of a nuclear explosion
Origin (mathematics), a fixed point of reference for a coordinate system
Zero Point (film), an Estonian film
Zero point (photometry), a calibration mechanism for magnitude in astronomy
Zero Point (South Georgia), a point in Possession Bay, South Georgia
Ze... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Potapov | Vladimir Petrovich Potapov (24 January 1914 – 21 December 1980) was a Soviet mathematician. He was born in Odesa and died in Kharkiv.
External links
Vladimir Petrovich Potapov at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
Soviet mathematicians
1914 births
1980 deaths
People from Odesa
Academic staff of K. D. Ushins... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Ginzton | Edward Leonard Ginzton (December 27, 1915 – August 13, 1998) was a Ukrainian-American engineer.
Education
Ginzton completed his B.S. (1936) and M.S. (1937) in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1941.
Career
As a student... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly%20Samoilenko | Anatoly Mykhailovych Samoilenko () (2 January 1938 – 4 December 2020) was a Ukrainian mathematician, an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (since 1995), the Director of the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (since 1988).
Biography
Anatoly Samoilenko was bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr%20Marchenko | Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Marchenko (; born 7 July 1922) is a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician who specializes in mathematical physics.
Biography
He was born in Kharkiv in 1922. He defended his PhD thesis in 1948 under the supervision of Naum Landkof, and in 1951, he defended his DSc thesis. He worked in Kharkiv Uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Kravchuk | Mykhailo Pylypovych Kravchuk, also Krawtchouk () (September 27, 1892 – March 9, 1942), was a Soviet Ukrainian mathematician and the author of around 180 articles on mathematics.
He primarily wrote papers on differential equations and integral equations, studying both their theory and applications. His two-volume monog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Awschalom | David D. Awschalom (born 1956 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States) is an American condensed matter experimental physicist. He is best known for his work in spintronics in semiconductors.
Awschalom graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign with a B.Sc. in physics. He received a Ph.D. in experim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciprian%20Manolescu | Ciprian Manolescu (born December 24, 1978) is a Romanian-American mathematician, working in gauge theory, symplectic geometry, and low-dimensional topology. He is currently a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.
Biography
Manolescu completed his first eight classes at School no. 11 Mihai Eminescu and his s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roboteer | The word roboteer refers to those with interests or careers in robotics. It dates back to the 1930s and is also used in 'Future Shock' (1970).
The term roboteer was used by Barbara Krasnov for a story on Deb Huglin, owner of the Robotorium, Inc., in New York City in the early 1980s. Huglin was a lightweight-robotics a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykhailo%20Maksymovych | Mykhailo Oleksandrovych Maksymovych (; 3 September 1804 – 10 November 1873) was a famous professor in plant biology, Ukrainian historian and writer in the Russian Empire of a Cossack background.
He contributed to the life sciences, especially botany and zoology, and to linguistics, folklore, ethnography, history, lit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Krylov%20%28mathematician%2C%20born%201879%29 | Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov (, ; – May 11, 1955) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician known for works on interpolation, non-linear mechanics, and numerical methods for solving equations of mathematical physics.
Biography
Nikolay Krylov graduated from St. Petersburg State Mining Institute in 1902. In the period fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vafa%E2%80%93Witten%20theorem | In theoretical physics, the Vafa–Witten theorem, named after Cumrun Vafa and Edward Witten, is a theorem that shows that vector-like global symmetries (those that transform as expected under reflections) such as isospin and baryon number in vector-like gauge theories like quantum chromodynamics cannot be spontaneously ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution | Solution may refer to:
Solution (chemistry), a mixture where one substance is dissolved in another
Solution (equation), in mathematics
Numerical solution, in numerical analysis, approximate solutions within specified error bounds
Solution, in problem solving
Solution, in solution selling
Other uses
V-STOL Solut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weil%27s%20conjecture%20on%20Tamagawa%20numbers | In mathematics, the Weil conjecture on Tamagawa numbers is the statement that the Tamagawa number of a simply connected simple algebraic group defined over a number field is 1. In this case, simply connected means "not having a proper algebraic covering" in the algebraic group theory sense, which is not always the top... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirico%20Filopanti | Giuseppe Barilli (20 April 1812 – 18 December 1894), also known under his pseudonym Quirico Filopanti, was an Italian mathematician and politician.
Biography
Barilli was born in Budrio, near Bologna, Italy, on 20 April 1812. He graduated in 1834 in mathematics and became professor of mechanics and hydraulics in 1848.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20eponyms%20of%20special%20functions | This is a list of special function eponyms in mathematics, to cover the theory of special functions, the differential equations they satisfy, named differential operators of the theory (but not intended to include every mathematical eponym). Named symmetric functions, and other special polynomials, are included.
A
Nie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker%20function | In mathematics, a Whittaker function is a special solution of Whittaker's equation, a modified form of the confluent hypergeometric equation introduced by to make the formulas involving the solutions more symmetric. More generally, introduced Whittaker functions of reductive groups over local fields, where the functi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteropolymetalate | In chemistry, the heteropolymetalates are a subset of the polyoxometalates, which consist of three or more transition metal oxyanions linked together by shared oxygen atoms to form a closed 3-dimensional molecular framework. In contrast to isopolymetalates, which contain only one kind of metal atom, the heteropolymetal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Kennedy | Professor Craig Kennedy is a character created by Arthur B. Reeve.
Description
Kennedy is a scientist detective at Columbia University similar to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Thorndyke. He uses his knowledge of chemistry and psychoanalysis to solve cases, and uses exotic (at the time) devices in his work such as lie detect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%20frequency | In mathematics, physics, and engineering, spatial frequency is a characteristic of any structure that is periodic across position in space. The spatial frequency is a measure of how often sinusoidal components (as determined by the Fourier transform) of the structure repeat per unit of distance.
The SI unit of spatia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Antonio%20Balseiro | José Antonio Balseiro (March 29, 1919 in Córdoba – March 26, 1962 in Bariloche) was an Argentine physicist.
Balseiro studied at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in his home city, before moving to La Plata to study and research, obtaining a doctorate in physics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. His doctoral... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading%20gauge%20theory | In theoretical physics, a cascading gauge theory is a gauge theory whose coupling rapidly changes with the scale in such a way that Seiberg duality must be applied many times.
Igor Klebanov and Matthew Strassler studied this kind of N=1 gauge theory in the context of the AdS-CFT correspondence, which is dual to the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berezinian | In mathematics and theoretical physics, the Berezinian or superdeterminant is a generalization of the determinant to the case of supermatrices. The name is for Felix Berezin. The Berezinian plays a role analogous to the determinant when considering coordinate changes for integration on a supermanifold.
Definition
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IR/UV%20mixing | In theoretical physics, it is usually possible to organize physical phenomena according to the energy scale or distance scale. The theory of renormalization group is based on this paradigm. The short-distance, ultraviolet (UV) physics does not directly affect qualitative features of the long-distance, infrared (IR) phy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%20Friedman |
Harvey Friedman (born 23 September 1948) is an American mathematical logician at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He has worked on reverse mathematics, a project intended to derive the axioms of mathematics from the theorems considered to be necessary. In recent years, this has advanced to a study of Boolean ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive%20gravity | In theoretical physics, massive gravity is a theory of gravity that modifies general relativity by endowing the graviton with a nonzero mass. In the classical theory, this means that gravitational waves obey a massive wave equation and hence travel at speeds below the speed of light.
Background
Massive gravity has a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto%20Bustamante | Ernesto Bustamante (born May 19, 1950) is a scientist known for his expertise and contributions to the field of molecular biology. He is currently also a politician and member of the Peruvian Parliament.
Academia
He has served as professor of biochemistry at Universidad Cayetano Heredia (Lima, Peru) during eight yea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite%20gravity | In theoretical physics, composite gravity refers to models that attempted to derive general relativity in a framework where the graviton is constructed as a composite bound state of more elementary particles, usually fermions. A theorem by Steven Weinberg and Edward Witten shows that this is not possible in Lorentz cov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poole%20Grammar%20School | Poole Grammar School (commonly abbreviated to PGS) is a selective, all‐boys grammar school and academy in the coastal town of Poole in Dorset, on the south coast of England. It is a member of the South West Academic Trust (SWAT). The school was a mathematics and computing school, with an additional specialism, cognitio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-tensor | In physics, specifically for special relativity and general relativity, a four-tensor is an abbreviation for a tensor in a four-dimensional spacetime.
Generalities
General four-tensors are usually written in tensor index notation as
with the indices taking integer values from 0 to 3, with 0 for the timelike componen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion%20%28algebra%29 | In mathematics, specifically in ring theory, a torsion element is an element of a module that yields zero when multiplied by some non-zero-divisor of the ring. The torsion submodule of a module is the submodule formed by the torsion elements. A torsion module is a module that equals its torsion submodule. A module is t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20topology%20topics | In mathematics, topology (from the Greek words , and ) is concerned with the properties of a geometric object that are preserved under continuous deformations, such as stretching, twisting, crumpling and bending, but not tearing or gluing.
A topological space is a set endowed with a structure, called a topology, which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Wiens | Douglas Paul Wiens is a Canadian statistician; he is a professor in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the University of Alberta.
Wiens earned a B.Sc. in mathematics (1972), two master's degrees in mathematical logic (1974) and statistics (1979), and a Ph.D. in statistics (1982), all from the U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20field%20approximation | In atomic physics, the central field approximation for many-electron atoms takes the combined electric fields of the nucleus and all the electrons acting on any of the electrons to be radial and to be the same for all the electrons in the atom. That is, every electron sees an identical potential that is only a functio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Sacks | Michael Sacks (born September 11, 1948 in New York City) is an American actor and technology industry executive who played the role of Billy Pilgrim in George Roy Hill's Slaughterhouse Five (1972).
Biography
Sacks has a Bachelor of Arts in Social Relations from Harvard College and a Master of Science in Computer Scien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Glaser | Christopher Glaser (1615 – between 1670 and 1678), a pharmaceutical chemist of the 17th century.
Life
He was born in Basel. He became demonstrator of chemistry, as successor of Lefebvre, at the Jardin du Roi in Paris, and apothecary to Louis XIV and to the Duke of Orléans.
He is best known through his Traité de la ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gbenga%20Daniel | Gbenga Daniel (born 6 April 1956) is a Nigerian politician who served as Senator for Ogun East since 2023. He previously served as governor of Ogun State from 2003 to 2011.
He is the owner of Kresta Laurel, an Electro-mechanical Engineering company, he started in 1990. He is also the Founder of Conference Hotels with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Mathematics%20Competition | The International Mathematics Competition (IMC) for University Students is an annual mathematics competition open to all undergraduate students of mathematics. Participating students are expected to be at most twenty three years of age at the time of the IMC. The IMC is primarily a competition for individuals, although... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern%20valence%20bond%20theory | Modern valence bond theory is the application of valence bond theory (VBT) with computer programs that are competitive in accuracy and economy with programs for the Hartree–Fock or post-Hartree-Fock methods. The latter methods dominated quantum chemistry from the advent of digital computers because they were easier to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20binding%20energy | Nuclear binding energy in experimental physics is the minimum energy that is required to disassemble the nucleus of an atom into its constituent protons and neutrons, known collectively as nucleons. The binding energy for stable nuclei is always a positive number, as the nucleus must gain energy for the nucleons to mov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moduli%20scheme | In mathematics, a moduli scheme is a moduli space that exists in the category of schemes developed by Alexander Grothendieck. Some important moduli problems of algebraic geometry can be satisfactorily solved by means of scheme theory alone, while others require some extension of the 'geometric object' concept (algebrai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Salvadori | Mario G. Salvadori (March 19, 1907 – June 25, 1997) was an American structural engineer and professor of both civil engineering and architecture at Columbia University.
Early life
Salvadori was born in Rome, Italy in 1907. His father, Riccardo, an engineer who worked for the telephone company, became the chief engine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half%20range%20Fourier%20series | In mathematics, a half range Fourier series is a Fourier series defined on an interval instead of the more common , with the implication that the analyzed function should be extended to as either an even (f(-x)=f(x)) or odd function (f(-x)=-f(x)). This allows the expansion of the function in a series solely of sines... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why%20We%20Nap | Why We Nap: Evolution, Chronobiology, and Functions of Polyphasic and Ultrashort Sleep is a 1992 book edited by Claudio Stampi, sole proprietor of the Chronobiology Research Institute. It is frequently mentioned by "polyphasic sleepers", as it is one of the few published books about the subject of systematic short napp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moishezon%20manifold | In mathematics, a Moishezon manifold is a compact complex manifold such that the field of meromorphic functions on each component has transcendence degree equal the complex dimension of the component:
Complex algebraic varieties have this property, but the converse is not true: Hironaka's example gives a smooth 3-di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Hull%20%28philosopher%29 | David Lee Hull (15 June 1935 – 11 August 2010) was an American philosopher who was most notable for founding the field philosophy of biology. Additionally, Hull is recognized within evolutionary culture studies as contributing heavily in early discussions of the conceptualization of memetics. In addition to his academi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reshef%20Tenne | Reshef Tenne (; 1944) is an Israeli scientist.
Biography
Born in Kibbutz Usha, Tenne received his BSc in Chemistry and Physics from Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1969, where he also received his MSc (1971) and PhD (1976).
Academic and scientific career
He then spent three years at the Battelle Institute in Geneva... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20M.%20Pattison%20Muir | Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir, FRSE, FCS (1848–1931) was a British chemist and author. He taught chemistry at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and was head of the Caius Laboratory there. Although he published some research on bismuth compounds, he became known through his textbooks and history of science works.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergence%20%28disambiguation%29 | Divergence is a mathematical function that associates a scalar with every point of a vector field.
Divergence, divergent, or variants of the word, may also refer to:
Mathematics
Divergence (computer science), a computation which does not terminate (or terminates in an exceptional state)
Divergence, the defining pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%20Sinisgalli | Leonardo Sinisgalli (1908–1981) was an Italian poet and art critic active from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Sinisgalli was born in Montemurro, Basilicata. His early education and careers led to him being called the "engineer poet".
In 1925, Sinisgalli moved to Rome where he studied engineering and mathematics. After comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Kelk%20Ingold | Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold (28 October 1893 – 8 December 1970) was a British chemist based in Leeds and London. His groundbreaking work in the 1920s and 1930s on reaction mechanisms and the electronic structure of organic compounds was responsible for the introduction into mainstream chemistry of concepts such as nuc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%20O.%20Gale%20Observatory | Grant O. Gale Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Grinnell College Department of Physics. The observatory is located in Grinnell, Iowa (USA). Constructed in 1984, it is named after Grant O. Gale, a distinguished teacher and curator of the Grinnell Physics Historical Museum. Designed by W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Australian%20Chemical%20Institute | The Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) is both the qualifying body in Australia for professional chemists and a learned society promoting the science and practice of chemistry in all its branches. The RACI hosts conferences, seminars and workshops. It is the professional body for chemistry in Australia, with th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryotaro%20Azuma | was a Japanese physician and bureaucrat who served as Governor of Tokyo from 1959 to 1967. In 1950, Azuma became a member of the international Olympic Committee (IOC).
Education
Born in Osaka, he attended Tokyo Imperial University and studied at the University of London, specializing in physical chemistry and physiolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahul%20Sarpeshkar | Rahul Sarpeshkar is the Thomas E. Kurtz Professor and a professor of engineering, professor of physics, professor of microbiology & immunology, and professor of molecular and systems biology at Dartmouth. Sarpeshkar, whose interdisciplinary work is in bioengineering, electrical engineering, quantum physics, and biophys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredholm%20alternative | In mathematics, the Fredholm alternative, named after Ivar Fredholm, is one of Fredholm's theorems and is a result in Fredholm theory. It may be expressed in several ways, as a theorem of linear algebra, a theorem of integral equations, or as a theorem on Fredholm operators. Part of the result states that a non-zero co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodaira%27s%20classification | In mathematics, Kodaira's classification is either
The Enriques–Kodaira classification, a classification of complex surfaces, or
Kodaira's classification of singular fibers, which classifies the possible fibers of an elliptic fibration. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Palatnik | Leo Samoylovich Palatnik (); (1909–1994) was an outstanding Ukrainian physicist known for his contributions in the field of thin film physics and film material.
External links
Leo Palatnik
20th-century Ukrainian physicists
National University of Kharkiv alumni
1909 births
1994 deaths
Laureates of the State Prize of U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyspermy | In biology, polyspermy describes the fertilization of an egg by more than one sperm. Diploid organisms normally contain two copies of each chromosome, one from each parent. The cell resulting from polyspermy, on the other hand, contains three or more copies of each chromosome—one from the egg and one each from multiple... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartan%27s%20criterion | In mathematics, Cartan's criterion gives conditions for a Lie algebra in characteristic 0 to be solvable, which implies a related criterion for the Lie algebra to be semisimple. It is based on the notion of the Killing form, a symmetric bilinear form on defined by the formula
where tr denotes the trace of a linear ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril%20Sinelnikov | Kirill Dmitriyevich Sinelnikov (; 29 May 1901, Pavlohrad, Russian Empire — 16 October 1966, Kharkiv, Soviet Union) was a Soviet physicist of Ukrainian origin who was world renowned, considered as the greatest organizer of science the USSR has ever had. The Sinelnikov Prize for outstanding works in the field of physics ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINDO | MINDO, or Modified Intermediate Neglect of Differential Overlap is a semi-empirical method for the quantum calculation of molecular electronic structure in computational chemistry. It is based on the Intermediate Neglect of Differential Overlap (INDO) method of John Pople. It was developed by the group of Michael Dewa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brauer%27s%20theorem%20on%20induced%20characters | Brauer's theorem on induced characters, often known as Brauer's induction theorem, and named after Richard Brauer, is a basic result in the branch of mathematics known as character theory, within representation theory of a finite group.
Background
A precursor to Brauer's induction theorem was Artin's induction theorem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apodization | In signal processing, apodization (from Greek "removing the foot") is the modification of the shape of a mathematical function. The function may represent an electrical signal, an optical transmission, or a mechanical structure. In optics, it is primarily used to remove Airy disks caused by diffraction around an intens... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20torus | In mathematics, a complex torus is a particular kind of complex manifold M whose underlying smooth manifold is a torus in the usual sense (i.e. the cartesian product of some number N circles). Here N must be the even number 2n, where n is the complex dimension of M.
All such complex structures can be obtained as follo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20Williamson | Timothy Williamson (born 6 August 1955) is a British philosopher whose main research interests are in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics. He is the Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, and fellow of New College, Oxford.
Education and career
Born on 6 August ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%20modular%20variety | In mathematics, a Hilbert modular surface or Hilbert–Blumenthal surface is an algebraic surface obtained by taking a quotient of a product of two copies of the upper half-plane by a Hilbert modular group. More generally, a Hilbert modular variety is an algebraic variety obtained by taking a quotient of a product of mul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Fischer | Mike David Fischer CBE is the co-founder of the computer company RM plc.
Fischer graduated with a physics degree from Oxford University. In 1973, with Mike O'Regan (who had an economics degree from Cambridge), Fischer co-founded Research Machines, a British microcomputer and then software company for the educational m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20O%27Regan | Michael Rowan Hamilton John O'Regan OBE (born c. 1947) is a British businessman and the co-founder of RM plc.
O'Regan graduated with an economics degree from Cambridge University.
In 1973, with Mike Fischer (who had a physics degree from Oxford), O'Regan co-founded Research Machines, a British microcomputer and then ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad%20Allen | Conrad Keene Allen (born 1968 in Marion, Illinois) is an American inventor and Exploration Geologist. While exploring for oil in the Middle East, Allen discovered and mapped one of the largest helium reserves in the world. He is the inventor of the Helium Junction, which utilizes nanotechnology to separate isotopic h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20measure | In mathematics, specifically measure theory, a complex measure generalizes the concept of measure by letting it have complex values. In other words, one allows for sets whose size (length, area, volume) is a complex number.
Definition
Formally, a complex measure on a measurable space is a complex-valued function
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil%20Nerode | Anil Nerode (born 1932) is an American mathematician, known for his work in mathematical logic and for his many-decades tenure as a professor at Cornell University.
He received his undergraduate education and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, the latter under the directions of Saunders Mac Lane.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-form%20electrodynamics | In theoretical physics, -form electrodynamics is a generalization of Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism.
Ordinary (via. one-form) Abelian electrodynamics
We have a one-form , a gauge symmetry
where is any arbitrary fixed 0-form and is the exterior derivative, and a gauge-invariant vector current with density 1 s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Boolean%20algebra | In mathematics, a free Boolean algebra is a Boolean algebra with a distinguished set of elements, called generators, such that:
Each element of the Boolean algebra can be expressed as a finite combination of generators, using the Boolean operations, and
The generators are as independent as possible, in the sense that t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom%20%28measure%20theory%29 | In mathematics, more precisely in measure theory, an atom is a measurable set which has positive measure and contains no set of smaller positive measure. A measure which has no atoms is called non-atomic or atomless.
Definition
Given a measurable space and a measure on that space, a set in is called an atom if
a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T8 | T8 or T-8 may refer to the following:
Measurement
T8, a Torx screwhead size
T8, a 1 inch fluorescent lamp size
A tornado intensity rating on the TORRO scale
Biology
The 8th thoracic vertebra
The T8 spinal nerve
Transportation
Trikke8, a scooter-like vehicle
An OS T1000 train class model, used on the Oslo Metr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schubert%20calculus | In mathematics, Schubert calculus is a branch of algebraic geometry introduced in the nineteenth century by Hermann Schubert, in order to solve various counting problems of projective geometry (part of enumerative geometry). It was a precursor of several more modern theories, for example characteristic classes, and in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on methane.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions.
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Vapor pressure of liquid
Table data obtained from CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 44th ed. Annotation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-homomorphism | In mathematics, the J-homomorphism is a mapping from the homotopy groups of the special orthogonal groups to the homotopy groups of spheres. It was defined by , extending a construction of .
Definition
Whitehead's original homomorphism is defined geometrically, and gives a homomorphism
of abelian groups for integers ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20World%20of%20Chemistry | The World of Chemistry is a television series on introductory chemistry hosted by Nobel prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffmann. The series consists of 26 half-hour video programs, along with coordinated books, which explore various topics in chemistry through experiments conducted by Stevens Point emeritus professor Don ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous%20recursion | In computer science, anonymous recursion is recursion which does not explicitly call a function by name. This can be done either explicitly, by using a higher-order function – passing in a function as an argument and calling it – or implicitly, via reflection features which allow one to access certain functions dependi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdallat%E2%80%93Davis%E2%80%93Farrage%20syndrome | Abdallat–Davis–Farrage syndrome is a form of phakomatosis, a disease of the central nervous system accompanied by skin abnormalities. It is characterized by the out of the ordinary pigment of the skin that is abnormal to one's genetics or the color perceived on a basis.
The condition is named after the team of medical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroinformatics | Neuroinformatics is the field that combines informatics and neuroscience. Neuroinformatics is related with neuroscience data and information processing by artificial neural networks. There are three main directions where neuroinformatics has to be applied:
the development of computational models of the nervous system ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertia%20%28disambiguation%29 | Inertia is the resistance of a physical object to change in its velocity.
Inertia may also refer to:
Science and engineering
Moment of inertia, the resistance to angular acceleration
In mechanical engineering, simply "inertia" is often used to refer to "inertial mass" or "moment of inertia"
Second moment of area, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection%20map | Reflection map may refer to:
Reflection mapping in computer graphics
A reflection (mathematics), specifically
an element of a reflection group
an element of a Weyl group
Reflection map (logic optimization), a conventional Gray code Karnaugh map in logic optimization |
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