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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermogenesis | Thermogenesis is the process of heat production in organisms. It occurs in all warm-blooded animals, and also in a few species of thermogenic plants such as the Eastern skunk cabbage, the Voodoo lily (Sauromatum venosum), and the giant water lilies of the genus Victoria. The lodgepole pine dwarf mistletoe, Arceuthobiu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday%20effect | The Faraday effect or Faraday rotation, sometimes referred to as the magneto-optic Faraday effect (MOFE), is a physical magneto-optical phenomenon. The Faraday effect causes a polarization rotation which is proportional to the projection of the magnetic field along the direction of the light propagation. Formally, it i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic%20integral | In mathematics, a quadratic integral is an integral of the form
It can be evaluated by completing the square in the denominator.
Positive-discriminant case
Assume that the discriminant q = b2 − 4ac is positive. In that case, define u and A by
and
The quadratic integral can now be written as
The partial fraction d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection%20%28linear%20algebra%29 | In linear algebra and functional analysis, a projection is a linear transformation from a vector space to itself (an endomorphism) such that . That is, whenever is applied twice to any vector, it gives the same result as if it were applied once (i.e. is idempotent). It leaves its image unchanged. This definition of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessenberg%20matrix | In linear algebra, a Hessenberg matrix is a special kind of square matrix, one that is "almost" triangular. To be exact, an upper Hessenberg matrix has zero entries below the first subdiagonal, and a lower Hessenberg matrix has zero entries above the first superdiagonal. They are named after Karl Hessenberg.
A Hessenb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarth | , known as Block Hole outside Japan, is a hybrid puzzle/shoot 'em up game developed by Konami which was released in 1989 as an arcade game. Besides the arcade version, there were also ports of the game to the MSX2 (with a built-in SCC chip), Famicom, and Game Boy—home releases used the Quarth name worldwide (with the e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tridiagonal%20matrix | In linear algebra, a tridiagonal matrix is a band matrix that has nonzero elements only on the main diagonal, the subdiagonal/lower diagonal (the first diagonal below this), and the supradiagonal/upper diagonal (the first diagonal above the main diagonal). For example, the following matrix is tridiagonal:
The determin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectravideo | Spectravideo International Limited (SVI) was an American computer manufacturer and software house. It was originally called SpectraVision, a company founded by Harry Fox in 1981. The company produced video games and other software for the VIC-20 home computer, the Atari 2600 home video game console, and its CompuMate p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON%20project | TRON (acronym for The Real-time Operating system Nucleus) is an open architecture real-time operating system kernel design. The project was started by Professor Dr. Ken Sakamura of the University of Tokyo in 1984. The project's goal is to create an ideal computer architecture and network, to provide for all of society'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mathematics%20history%20topics | This is a list of mathematics history topics, by Wikipedia page. See also list of mathematicians, timeline of mathematics, history of mathematics, list of publications in mathematics.
1729 (anecdote)
Adequality
Archimedes Palimpsest
Archimedes' use of infinitesimals
Arithmetization of analysis
Brachistochrone curve
Ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koszul%20complex | The Koszul complex is a concept in mathematics introduced by Jean-Louis Koszul.
Definition
Let A be a commutative ring and s: Ar → A an A-linear map. Its Koszul complex Ks is
where the maps send
where means the term is omitted and means the wedge product. One may replace Ar with any A-module.
Motivating exampl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRAF | IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility) is a collection of software written at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) geared towards the reduction of astronomical images and spectra in pixel array form. This is primarily data taken from imaging array detectors such as CCDs. It is available for all major... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20cryptography | Cryptography, the use of codes and ciphers to protect secrets, began thousands of years ago. Until recent decades, it has been the story of what might be called classical cryptography — that is, of methods of encryption that use pen and paper, or perhaps simple mechanical aids. In the early 20th century, the invention ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Collegiate%20Programming%20Contest | The International Collegiate Programming Contest, known as the ICPC, is an annual multi-tiered competitive programming competition among the universities of the world. Directed by ICPC Executive Director and Baylor Professor Dr. William B. Poucher, the ICPC operates autonomous regional contests covering six continents... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-color%20system | The two-color system of projection is a name given to a variety of methods of projecting a full-color image using (only) two different single-color projectors. James Clerk Maxwell first suggested he had discovered such a projection system, but it was not reproduced until the 1950s, when Edwin Land accidentally noticed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-bit%20computing | 4-bit computing is the use of computer architectures in which integers and other data units are 4 bits wide. 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) and arithmetic logic unit (ALU) architectures are those that are based on registers or data buses of that size. Memory addresses (and thus address buses) for 4-bit CPUs are ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrophilia | Macrophilia is a fascination with or a sexual fantasy involving giants, most commonly expressed as giantesses (female giants), as well as giant objects. It is typically believed to be a male fantasy, with the male playing the smaller part; however, people with any background can have it. When the smaller part is male, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRSDOS | TRSDOS (which stands for the Tandy Radio Shack Disk Operating System) is the operating system for the Tandy TRS-80 line of eight-bit Zilog Z80 microcomputers that were sold through Radio Shack from 1977 through 1991. Tandy's manuals recommended that it be pronounced triss-doss. TRSDOS should not be confused with Tandy ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20forest | Tropical forests are forested landscapes in tropical regions: i.e. land areas approximately bounded by the tropic of Cancer and Capricorn, but possibly affected by other factors such as prevailing winds.
Some tropical forest types are difficult to categorize. While forests in temperate areas are readily categorized on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC%20LARC | The UNIVAC LARC, short for the Livermore Advanced Research Computer, is a mainframe computer designed to a requirement published by Edward Teller in order to run hydrodynamic simulations for nuclear weapon design. It was one of the earliest supercomputers.
LARC supported multiprocessing with two CPUs (called Computers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority%20inversion | In computer science, priority inversion is a scenario in scheduling in which a high-priority task is indirectly superseded by a lower-priority task effectively inverting the assigned priorities of the tasks. This violates the priority model that high-priority tasks can only be prevented from running by higher-priority ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schur%27s%20lemma | In mathematics, Schur's lemma is an elementary but extremely useful statement in representation theory of groups and algebras. In the group case it says that if M and N are two finite-dimensional irreducible representations
of a group G and φ is a linear map from M to N that commutes with the action of the group, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashover | A flashover is the near-simultaneous ignition of most of the directly exposed combustible material in an enclosed area. When certain organic materials are heated, they undergo thermal decomposition and release flammable gases. Flashover occurs when the majority of the exposed surfaces in a space are heated to their aut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von%20Karman%20Institute%20for%20Fluid%20Dynamics | The von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI) is a non-profit educational and scientific organization which specializes in three specific fields: aeronautics and aerospace, environment and applied fluid dynamics, turbomachinery and propulsion. Founded in 1956, it is located in Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium.
About
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwahori%E2%80%93Hecke%20algebra | In mathematics, the Iwahori–Hecke algebra, or Hecke algebra, named for Erich Hecke and Nagayoshi Iwahori, is a deformation of the group algebra of a Coxeter group.
Hecke algebras are quotients of the group rings of Artin braid groups. This connection found a spectacular application in Vaughan Jones' construction of n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20engineering | Hydraulic engineering as a sub-discipline of civil engineering is concerned with the flow and conveyance of fluids, principally water and sewage. One feature of these systems is the extensive use of gravity as the motive force to cause the movement of the fluids. This area of civil engineering is intimately related to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20hydride | Sodium hydride is the chemical compound with the empirical formula NaH. This alkali metal hydride is primarily used as a strong yet combustible base in organic synthesis. NaH is a saline (salt-like) hydride, composed of Na+ and H− ions, in contrast to molecular hydrides such as borane, methane, ammonia, and water. It i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet | Sneakernet, also called sneaker net, is an informal term for the transfer of electronic information by physically moving media such as magnetic tape, floppy disks, optical discs, USB flash drives or external hard drives between computers, rather than transmitting it over a computer network. The term, a tongue-in-cheek ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20numeral%20system%20topics | This is a list of Wikipedia articles on topics of numeral system and "numeric representations"
See also: computer numbering formats and number names.
Arranged by base
Radix, radix point, mixed radix, base (mathematics)
Unary numeral system (base 1)
Binary numeral system (base 2)
Negative base numeral system (ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture%20the%20flag | Capture the flag (CTF) is a traditional outdoor sport where two or more teams each have a flag (or other markers) and the objective is to capture the other team's flag, located at the team's "base" (or hidden or even buried somewhere in the territory), and bring it safely back to their own base. Enemy players can be "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering%20tolerance | Engineering tolerance is the permissible limit or limits of variation in:
a physical dimension;
a measured value or physical property of a material, manufactured object, system, or service;
other measured values (such as temperature, humidity, etc.);
in engineering and safety, a physical distance or space (tolera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institution%20of%20Engineers%20of%20Ireland | The Institution of Engineers of Ireland () or the IEI, is the second oldest Engineering Society on the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and was established in 1835. The institution primarily represents members based in Ireland.
Membership of the institution is open to individuals based on academic and profession... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requirements%20analysis | In systems engineering and software engineering, requirements analysis focuses on the tasks that determine the needs or conditions to meet the new or altered product or project, taking account of the possibly conflicting requirements of the various stakeholders, analyzing, documenting, validating and managing software ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homotopy%20lifting%20property | In mathematics, in particular in homotopy theory within algebraic topology, the homotopy lifting property (also known as an instance of the right lifting property or the covering homotopy axiom) is a technical condition on a continuous function from a topological space E to another one, B. It is designed to support the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Lucene | Apache Lucene is a free and open-source search engine software library, originally written in Java by Doug Cutting. It is supported by the Apache Software Foundation and is released under the Apache Software License. Lucene is widely used as a standard foundation for production search applications.
Lucene has been po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciphertext-only%20attack | In cryptography, a ciphertext-only attack (COA) or known ciphertext attack is an attack model for cryptanalysis where the attacker is assumed to have access only to a set of ciphertexts. While the attacker has no channel providing access to the plaintext prior to encryption, in all practical ciphertext-only attacks, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic%20system | In mathematics, computer science and physics, a deterministic system is a system in which no randomness is involved in the development of future states of the system. A deterministic model will thus always produce the same output from a given starting condition or initial state.
In physics
Physical laws that are desc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20feather | The white feather is a widely recognised propaganda symbol. It has, among other things, represented cowardice or conscientious pacifism; as in A. E. W. Mason's 1902 book The Four Feathers. In Britain during the First World War it was often given to males out of uniform by women to shame them publicly into signing up. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitable%20medium | An excitable medium is a nonlinear dynamical system which has the capacity to propagate a wave of some description, and which cannot support the passing of another wave until a certain amount of time has passed (known as the refractory time).
A forest is an example of an excitable medium: if a wildfire burns through t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20monoid | In abstract algebra, the free monoid on a set is the monoid whose elements are all the finite sequences (or strings) of zero or more elements from that set, with string concatenation as the monoid operation and with the unique sequence of zero elements, often called the empty string and denoted by ε or λ, as the identi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20separability | In Euclidean geometry, linear separability is a property of two sets of points. This is most easily visualized in two dimensions (the Euclidean plane) by thinking of one set of points as being colored blue and the other set of points as being colored red. These two sets are linearly separable if there exists at least o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructible%20polygon | In mathematics, a constructible polygon is a regular polygon that can be constructed with compass and straightedge. For example, a regular pentagon is constructible with compass and straightedge while a regular heptagon is not. There are infinitely many constructible polygons, but only 31 with an odd number of sides ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Communications%20Riser | The Advanced Communications Riser, or ACR, is a form factor and technical specification for PC motherboard expansion slots. It is meant as a supplement to PCI slots, a replacement for the original Audio/modem riser (AMR) slots, and a competitor and alternative to Intel's communications and networking riser (CNR) slots.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20GTK%20applications | This is a list of notable applications that use GTK and/or Clutter for their GUI widgets. Such applications blend well with desktop environments that are GTK-based as well, such as GNOME, Cinnamon, LXDE, MATE, Pantheon, Sugar, Xfce or ROX Desktop.
Official GNOME applications
The GNOME Project, i.e. all the people invo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20on%20a%20stick | COASt, an acronym for "cache on a stick", is a packaging standard for modules containing SRAM used as an L2 cache in a computer. COASt modules look like somewhat oversized SIMM modules. These modules were somewhat popular in the Apple and PC platforms during early to mid-1990s, but with newer computers cache is built i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/256%20%28number%29 | 256 (two hundred [and] fifty-six) is the natural number following 255 and preceding 257.
In mathematics
256 is a composite number, with the factorization 256 = 28, which makes it a power of two.
256 is 4 raised to the 4th power, so in tetration notation, 256 is 24.
256 is the value of the expression , where .
256 i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simply%20connected%20space | In topology, a topological space is called simply connected (or 1-connected, or 1-simply connected) if it is path-connected and every path between two points can be continuously transformed (intuitively for embedded spaces, staying within the space) into any other such path while preserving the two endpoints in questio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal%20number | In number theory an ideal number is an algebraic integer which represents an ideal in the ring of integers of a number field; the idea was developed by Ernst Kummer, and led to Richard Dedekind's definition of ideals for rings. An ideal in the ring of integers of an algebraic number field is principal if it consists of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20and%20external%20angles | In geometry, an angle of a polygon is formed by two adjacent sides. For a simple (non-self-intersecting) polygon, regardless of whether it is convex or non-convex, this angle is called an (or interior angle) if a point within the angle is in the interior of the polygon. A polygon has exactly one internal angle per ve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathogenesis | In pathology, pathogenesis is the process by which a disease or disorder develops. It can include factors which contribute not only to the onset of the disease or disorder, but also to its progression and maintenance. The word comes .
Description
Types of pathogenesis include microbial infection, inflammation, malign... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasso%20%28programming%20language%29 | Lasso is an application server and server management interface used to develop internet applications and is a general-purpose, high-level programming language. Originally a web datasource connection tool for Filemaker and later included in Apple Computer's FileMaker 4.0 and Claris Homepage as CDML, it has since evolved... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem%20diversity | Ecosystem diversity deals with the variations in ecosystems within a geographical location and its overall impact on human existence and the environment.
Ecosystem diversity addresses the combined characteristics of biotic properties (biodiversity) and abiotic properties (geodiversity). It is a variation in the ecosys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARNET | CARNET (Croatian Academic and Research Network, ) is the national research and education network of Croatia. It is funded from the government budget and it operates from offices in Zagreb and five other cities.
CARNET was established in 1991 as a project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Cro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20science%20and%20engineering | Computer science and engineering (CSE) is an academic program at many universities which comprises computer science classes (e.g. data structures and algorithms) and computer engineering classes (e.g computer architecture). There is no clear division in computing between science and engineering, just like in the field ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-destruct | A self-destruct is a mechanism that can cause an object to destroy itself or render itself inoperable after a predefined set of circumstances has occurred.
Self-destruct mechanisms are typically found on devices and systems where malfunction could endanger large numbers of people.
Uses
Land mines
Some types of mode... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20fountain | A space fountain is a proposed form of an extremely tall tower extending into space. As known materials cannot support a static tower with this height, a space fountain has to be an active structure: A stream of pellets is accelerated upwards from a ground station. At the top it is deflected downwards. The necessary fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymnet | Tymnet was an international data communications network headquartered in Cupertino, California that used virtual call packet-switched technology and X.25, SNA/SDLC, BSC and Async interfaces to connect host computers (servers) at thousands of large companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Users typi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20Abbe | Ernst Karl Abbe (23 January 1840 – 14 January 1905) was a German physicist, optical scientist, entrepreneur, and social reformer. Together with Otto Schott and Carl Zeiss, he developed numerous optical instruments. He was also a co-owner of Carl Zeiss AG, a German manufacturer of scientific microscopes, astronomical t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone-sync | A phone-sync (also known as a tape-sync, a simul-rec, or a double-ender) was a technique used to conduct televised interviews over long distances in the 1980s before satellite television became commonplace, in order to provide video to what would otherwise be an audio-only interview. It was commonplace in such news pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersurface | In geometry, a hypersurface is a generalization of the concepts of hyperplane, plane curve, and surface. A hypersurface is a manifold or an algebraic variety of dimension , which is embedded in an ambient space of dimension , generally a Euclidean space, an affine space or a projective space.
Hypersurfaces share, with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codimension | In mathematics, codimension is a basic geometric idea that applies to subspaces in vector spaces, to submanifolds in manifolds, and suitable subsets of algebraic varieties.
For affine and projective algebraic varieties, the codimension equals the height of the defining ideal. For this reason, the height of an ideal is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkometer | An inkometer is a specialized measuring instrument used by the printing industry to measure the "tack" (adhesiveness) of an ink with the roller system on an offset press. The importance of tack is that it is not so excessive that it doesn't allow effective transfer from the rollers to the plate and then to the blanket ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address%20pool | In the context of the Internet addressing structure, an address pool is a set of Internet Protocol addresses available at any level in the IP address allocation hierarchy. At the top level, the IP address pool is managed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). The total IPv4 address pool contains (232) addr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable | Quoted-Printable, or QP encoding, is a binary-to-text encoding system using printable ASCII characters (alphanumeric and the equals sign =) to transmit 8-bit data over a 7-bit data path or, generally, over a medium which is not 8-bit clean. Historically, because of the wide range of systems and protocols that could be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered%20ring | In abstract algebra, an ordered ring is a (usually commutative) ring R with a total order ≤ such that for all a, b, and c in R:
if a ≤ b then a + c ≤ b + c.
if 0 ≤ a and 0 ≤ b then 0 ≤ ab.
Examples
Ordered rings are familiar from arithmetic. Examples include the integers, the rationals and the real numbers. (The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colostrum | Colostrum, or first milk, is the first form of milk produced by the mammary glands of humans and other mammals immediately following delivery of the newborn. It may be called beestings when referring to the first milk of a cow or similar animal. Most species will begin to generate colostrum just prior to giving birth.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density%20of%20states | In solid-state physics and condensed matter physics, the density of states (DOS) of a system describes the number of modes per unit frequency range. The density of states is defined as where is the number of states in the system of volume whose energies lie in the range from to . It is mathematically represented a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark%20%28kernel%29 | In computing, Quark is an operating system kernel used in MorphOS. It is a microkernel designed to run fully virtualized computers, called boxes (see sandbox). , only one box is available, the ABox, that lets users run extant AmigaOS software compiled for Motorola 68000 series (MC680x0 or 68k) and PowerPC central proce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta%20Efficeon | The Efficeon (stylized as efficēon) processor is Transmeta's second-generation 256-bit VLIW design released in 2004 which employs a software engine Code Morphing Software (CMS) to convert code written for x86 processors to the native instruction set of the chip. Like its predecessor, the Transmeta Crusoe (a 128-bit VL... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20loom | A power loom is a mechanized loom, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. The first power loom was designed and patented in 1785 by Edmund Cartwright. It was refined over the next 47 years until a design by the Howard and Bullough company made t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive | Parchive (a portmanteau of parity archive, and formally known as Parity Volume Set Specification) is an erasure code system that produces par files for checksum verification of data integrity, with the capability to perform data recovery operations that can repair or regenerate corrupted or missing data.
Parchive was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder%20abuse | Elder abuse (also called elder mistreatment, senior abuse, abuse in later life, abuse of older adults, abuse of older women, and abuse of older men) is "a single, or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust, which causes harm or distress to an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20family | A gene family is a set of several similar genes, formed by duplication of a single original gene, and generally with similar biochemical functions. One such family are the genes for human hemoglobin subunits; the ten genes are in two clusters on different chromosomes, called the α-globin and β-globin loci. These two g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalanchoe | Kalanchoe ( ), also written Kalanchöe or Kalanchoë, is a genus of about 125 species of tropical, succulent plants in the stonecrop family Crassulaceae, mainly native to Madagascar and tropical Africa. A Kalanchoe species was one of the first plants to be sent into space, sent on a resupply to the Soviet Salyut 1 space... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chargaff%27s%20rules | Chargaff's rules [given by Erwin Chargaff] states that in the DNA of any species and any organism, the amount of guanine should be equal to the amount of cytosine and the amount of adenine should be equal to the amount of thymine. Further a 1:1 stoichiometric ratio of purine and pyrimidine bases (i.e., A+G=T+C) should ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address%20munging | Address munging is the practice of disguising
an e-mail address to prevent it from being automatically collected by unsolicited bulk e-mail providers.
Address munging is intended to disguise an e-mail address in a way that prevents computer software from seeing the real address, or even any address at all, but still ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20mathematics%20topics | Lists of mathematics topics cover a variety of topics related to mathematics. Some of these lists link to hundreds of articles; some link only to a few. The template to the right includes links to alphabetical lists of all mathematical articles. This article brings together the same content organized in a manner better... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s%20eighth%20problem | Hilbert's eighth problem is one of David Hilbert's list of open mathematical problems posed in 1900. It concerns number theory, and in particular the Riemann hypothesis, although it is also concerned with the Goldbach Conjecture. The problem as stated asked for more work on the distribution of primes and generalization... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowchart | A flowchart is a type of diagram that represents a workflow or process. A flowchart can also be defined as a diagrammatic representation of an algorithm, a step-by-step approach to solving a task.
The flowchart shows the steps as boxes of various kinds, and their order by connecting the boxes with arrows. This diagram... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChipTest | ChipTest was a 1985 chess playing computer built by Feng-hsiung Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman and Murray Campbell at Carnegie Mellon University. It is the predecessor of Deep Thought which in turn evolved into Deep Blue.
ChipTest was based on a special VLSI-technology move generator chip developed by Hsu. ChipTest was cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiTech | HiTech is a chess machine built at Carnegie Mellon University under the direction of World Correspondence Chess Champion Dr. Hans J. Berliner, by Berliner, Carl Ebeling, Murray Campbell, and Gordon Goetsch.
HiTech was the first computer chess system to reach the 2400 (senior master) USCF rating level. It won the Penns... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse%20%28signal%20processing%29 | A pulse in signal processing is a rapid, transient change in the amplitude of a signal from a baseline value to a higher or lower value, followed by a rapid return to the baseline value.
Pulse shapes
Pulse shapes can arise out of a process called pulse-shaping. Optimum pulse shape depends on the application.
Rectang... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitite | Trinitite, also known as atomsite or Alamogordo glass, is the glassy residue left on the desert floor after the plutonium-based Trinity nuclear bomb test on July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The glass is primarily composed of arkosic sand composed of quartz grains and feldspar (both microcline and smaller amo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioRuby | BioRuby is a collection of open-source Ruby code, comprising classes for computational molecular biology and bioinformatics. It contains classes for DNA and protein sequence analysis, sequence alignment, biological database parsing, structural biology and other bioinformatics tasks. BioRuby is released under the GNU GP... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20review | Code review (sometimes referred to as peer review) is a software quality assurance activity in which one or more people check a program, mainly by viewing and reading parts of its source code, either after implementation or as an interruption of implementation. At least one of the persons must not have authored the cod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%20paradox%20%28economics%29 | In economics and commerce, the Bertrand paradox — named after its creator, Joseph Bertrand — describes a situation in which two players (firms) reach a state of Nash equilibrium where both firms charge a price equal to marginal cost ("MC"). The paradox is that in models such as Cournot competition, an increase in the n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation%20lookaside%20buffer | A translation lookaside buffer (TLB) is a memory cache that stores the recent translations of virtual memory to physical memory. It is used to reduce the time taken to access a user memory location. It can be called an address-translation cache. It is a part of the chip's memory-management unit (MMU). A TLB may reside... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von%20Neumann%E2%80%93Bernays%E2%80%93G%C3%B6del%20set%20theory | In the foundations of mathematics, von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory (NBG) is an axiomatic set theory that is a conservative extension of Zermelo–Fraenkel–choice set theory (ZFC). NBG introduces the notion of class, which is a collection of sets defined by a formula whose quantifiers range only over sets. NBG can de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semigroupoid | In mathematics, a semigroupoid (also called semicategory, naked category or precategory) is a partial algebra that satisfies the axioms for a small category, except possibly for the requirement that there be an identity at each object. Semigroupoids generalise semigroups in the same way that small categories generalise... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard%20symbol | Hazard symbols or warning symbols are recognisable symbols designed to warn about hazardous or dangerous materials, locations, or objects, including electromagnetic fields, electric currents; harsh, toxic or unstable chemicals (acids, poisons, explosives); and radioactivity. The use of hazard symbols is often regulated... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt%20Extended | Qt Extended (named Qtopia before September 30, 2008) is an application platform for embedded Linux-based mobile computing devices such as personal digital assistants, video projectors and mobile phones. It was initially developed by The Qt Company, at the time known as Qt Software and a subsidiary of Nokia. When they ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20integral | In mathematics, particularly multivariable calculus, a surface integral is a generalization of multiple integrals to integration over surfaces. It can be thought of as the double integral analogue of the line integral. Given a surface, one may integrate a scalar field (that is, a function of position which returns a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seto%20Kaiba | is a fictional character in the manga Yu-Gi-Oh! by Kazuki Takahashi. As the majority shareholder and CEO of his own multi-national gaming company, Kaiba Corporation, Kaiba is reputed to be Japan's greatest gamer and aims to become the world's greatest player of the American card game, Duel Monsters (Magic & Wizards in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Furber | Stephen Byram Furber (born 21 March 1953) is a British computer scientist, mathematician and hardware engineer, currently the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK. After completing his education at the University of Cambridge (BA, MMath, PhD), ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20control%20surface | In the domain of digital audio, a control surface is a human interface device (HID) which allows the user to control a digital audio workstation or other digital audio application. Generally, a control surface will contain one or more controls that can be assigned to parameters in the software, allowing tactile contro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirolimus | Sirolimus, also known as rapamycin and sold under the brand name Rapamune among others, is a macrolide compound that is used to coat coronary stents, prevent organ transplant rejection, treat a rare lung disease called lymphangioleiomyomatosis, and treat perivascular epithelioid cell tumor (PEComa). It has immunosuppre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPS-10 | TOPS-10 System (Timesharing / Total Operating System-10) is a discontinued operating system from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for the PDP-10 (or DECsystem-10) mainframe computer family. Launched in 1967, TOPS-10 evolved from the earlier "Monitor" software for the PDP-6 and PDP-10 computers; this was renamed to T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding%20site | In biochemistry and molecular biology, a binding site is a region on a macromolecule such as a protein that binds to another molecule with specificity. The binding partner of the macromolecule is often referred to as a ligand. Ligands may include other proteins (resulting in a protein–protein interaction), enzyme subs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punnett%20square | The Punnett square is a square diagram that is used to predict the genotypes of a particular cross or breeding experiment. It is named after Reginald C. Punnett, who devised the approach in 1905. The diagram is used by biologists to determine the probability of an offspring having a particular genotype. The Punnett squ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronary%20arteries | The coronary arteries are the arterial blood vessels of coronary circulation, which transport oxygenated blood to the heart muscle. The heart requires a continuous supply of oxygen to function and survive, much like any other tissue or organ of the body.
The coronary arteries wrap around the entire heart. The two main... |
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