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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface%20%28computing%29 | In computing, an interface is a shared boundary across which two or more separate components of a computer system exchange information. The exchange can be between software, computer hardware, peripheral devices, humans, and combinations of these. Some computer hardware devices, such as a touchscreen, can both send and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio%20Calabi | Eugenio Calabi (May 11, 1923 – September 25, 2023) was an Italian-born American mathematician and the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in differential geometry, partial differential equations and their applications.
Early life and education
Calabi was born in Mil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretability | In mathematical logic, interpretability is a relation between formal theories that expresses the possibility of interpreting or translating one into the other.
Informal definition
Assume T and S are formal theories. Slightly simplified, T is said to be interpretable in S if and only if the language of T can be transla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cointerpretability | In mathematical logic, cointerpretability is a binary relation on formal theories: a formal theory T is cointerpretable in another such theory S, when the language of S can be translated into the language of T in such a way that S proves every formula whose translation is a theorem of T. The "translation" here is requi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolerant%20sequence | In mathematical logic, a tolerant sequence is a sequence
,...,
of formal theories such that there are consistent extensions
,...,
of these theories with each interpretable in . Tolerance naturally generalizes from sequences of theories to trees of theories. Weak interpretability can be shown to be a special, b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20graphics%20and%20descriptive%20geometry%20topics | This is a list of computer graphics and descriptive geometry topics, by article name.
2D computer graphics
2D geometric model
3D computer graphics
3D projection
Alpha compositing
Anisotropic filtering
Anti-aliasing
Axis-aligned bounding box
Axonometric projection
Bézier curve
Bézier surface
Bicubic interpol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20topology | In mathematics, geometric topology is the study of manifolds and maps between them, particularly embeddings of one manifold into another.
History
Geometric topology as an area distinct from algebraic topology may be said to have originated in the 1935 classification of lens spaces by Reidemeister torsion, which requi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive%20contamination | Radioactive contamination, also called radiological pollution, is the deposition of, or presence of radioactive substances on surfaces or within solids, liquids, or gases (including the human body), where their presence is unintended or undesirable (from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) definition).
Such ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%20Bruno | PC Bruno was a Polish–French–Spanish signals–intelligence station near Paris during World War II, from October 1939 until June 1940. Its function was decryption of cipher messages, most notably German messages enciphered on the Enigma machine.
PC Bruno worked in close cooperation with Britain's decryption center at B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-matrix | In physics, the S-matrix or scattering matrix relates the initial state and the final state of a physical system undergoing a scattering process. It is used in quantum mechanics, scattering theory and quantum field theory (QFT).
More formally, in the context of QFT, the S-matrix is defined as the unitary matrix connec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan%20Western%20Sahara%20Wall | The Moroccan Western Sahara Wall or the Berm, also called the Moroccan sand wall (), is an approximately berm running south to north through Western Sahara and the southwestern portion of Morocco. It separates the Moroccan-controlled areas (the Southern Provinces) on the west from the Polisario-controlled areas (Free ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaga | is a 1981 fixed shooter arcade video game developed and published by Namco. In North America, it was released by Midway Manufacturing. It is the sequel to Galaxian (1979), Namco's first major video game hit in arcades. Controlling a starship, the player is tasked with destroying the Galaga forces in each stage while av... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWHO | WWHO (channel 53) is a television station licensed to Chillicothe, Ohio, United States, serving the Columbus area as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Manhan Media, Inc., which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of ABC/MyNetworkTV/Fox affiliate WSYX (channel 6), for th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Spencer | Adam Barrington Spencer (born 29 January 1969) is an Australian comedian, media personality and former radio presenter. He first came to fame when he won his round of the comedic talent search Raw Comedy in 1996. Soon thereafter, he began working at Triple J, on mid-dawn and drive shifts before hosting the Triple J Bre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20job | A Joe job is a spamming technique that sends out unsolicited e-mails using spoofed sender data. Early Joe jobs aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the apparent sender or inducing the recipients to take action against them (see also email spoofing), but they are now typically used by commercial spammers to conceal the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous%20function | In mathematics, a homogeneous function is a function of several variables such that, if all its arguments are multiplied by a scalar, then its value is multiplied by some power of this scalar, called the degree of homogeneity, or simply the degree; that is, if is an integer, a function of variables is homogeneous of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSI | OpenSSI is an open-source single-system image clustering system. It allows a collection of computers to be treated as one large system, allowing applications running on any one machine access to the resources of all the machines in the cluster.
OpenSSI is based on the Linux operating system and was released as an open... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20system%20image | In distributed computing, a single system image (SSI) cluster is a cluster of machines that appears to be one single system. The concept is often considered synonymous with that of a distributed operating system, but a single image may be presented for more limited purposes, just job scheduling for instance, which may ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted%20operating%20system | Trusted Operating System (TOS) generally refers to an operating system that provides sufficient support for multilevel security and evidence of correctness to meet a particular set of government requirements.
The most common set of criteria for trusted operating system design is the Common Criteria combined with the S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compile%20farm | A compile farm is a server farm, a collection of one or more servers, which has been set up to compile computer programs remotely for various reasons. Uses of a compile farm include:
Cross-platform development: When writing software that runs on multiple processor architectures and operating systems, it can be infeas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic%20mapping | Robotic mapping is a discipline related to computer vision and cartography. The goal for an autonomous robot is to be able to construct (or use) a map (outdoor use) or floor plan (indoor use) and to localize itself and its recharging bases or beacons in it. Robotic mapping is that branch which deals with the study and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20and%20Engineering%20Research%20Council | The Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) and its predecessor the Science Research Council (SRC) were the UK agencies in charge of publicly funded scientific and engineering research activities, including astronomy, biotechnology and biological sciences, space research and particle physics, between 1965 and 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOOD%20method | HOOD (Hierarchic Object-Oriented Design) is a detailed software design method. It is based on hierarchical decomposition of a software problem. It comprises textual and graphical representations of the design.
HOOD was initially created for the European Space Agency and is used in such varied domains as aerospace (Eur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haldane%27s%20rule | Haldane's rule is an observation about the early stage of speciation, formulated in 1922 by the British evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane, that states that if — in a species hybrid — only one sex is inviable or sterile, that sex is more likely to be the heterogametic sex. The heterogametic sex is the one with two... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastomere | In biology, a blastomere is a type of cell produced by cell division (cleavage) of the zygote after fertilization; blastomeres are an essential part of blastula formation, and blastocyst formation in mammals.
Human blastomere characteristics
In humans, blastomere formation begins immediately following fertilization a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction%20heating | Induction heating is the process of heating electrically conductive materials, namely metals or semi-conductors, by electromagnetic induction, through heat transfer passing through an inductor that creates an electromagnetic field within the coil to heat up and possibly melt steel, copper, brass, graphite, gold, silver... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage%20regulator | A voltage regulator is a system designed to automatically maintain a constant voltage. It may use a simple feed-forward design or may include negative feedback. It may use an electromechanical mechanism, or electronic components. Depending on the design, it may be used to regulate one or more AC or DC voltages.
Electr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%20paradox%20%28probability%29 | The Bertrand paradox is a problem within the classical interpretation of probability theory. Joseph Bertrand introduced it in his work Calcul des probabilités (1889), as an example to show that the principle of indifference may not produce definite, well-defined results for probabilities if it is applied uncritically w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mating%20system | A mating system is a way in which a group is structured in relation to sexual behaviour. The precise meaning depends upon the context. With respect to animals, the term describes which males and females mate under which circumstances. Recognised systems include monogamy, polygamy (which includes polygyny, polyandry, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagy | Autophagy (or autophagocytosis; from the Ancient Greek , , meaning "self-devouring" and , , meaning "hollow") is the natural, conserved degradation of the cell that removes unnecessary or dysfunctional components through a lysosome-dependent regulated mechanism. It allows the orderly degradation and recycling of cellul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20partition%20topics | Generally, a partition is a division of a whole into non-overlapping parts. Among the kinds of partitions considered in mathematics are
partition of a set or an ordered partition of a set,
partition of a graph,
partition of an integer,
partition of an interval,
partition of unity,
partition of a matrix; see bloc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence%20of%20a%20number | In mathematics, the persistence of a number is the number of times one must apply a given operation to an integer before reaching a fixed point at which the operation no longer alters the number.
Usually, this involves additive or multiplicative persistence of a non-negative integer, which is how often one has to repl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight-twelve%20engine | A straight-12 engine or inline-12 engine is a twelve-cylinder piston engine with all twelve cylinders mounted in a straight line along the crankcase.
Land use
Due to the very long length of a straight-twelve engine, they are rarely used in automobiles. The first known example is a engine in the 1920 French Corona car... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular%20building | A modular building is a prefabricated building that consists of repeated sections called modules. Modularity involves constructing sections away from the building site, then delivering them to the intended site. Installation of the prefabricated sections is completed on site. Prefabricated sections are sometimes placed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher%20Bureau%20%28Poland%29 | The Cipher Bureau (Polish: Biuro Szyfrów, ) was the interwar Polish General Staff's Second Department's unit charged with SIGINT and both cryptography (the use of ciphers and codes) and cryptanalysis (the study of ciphers and codes, for the purpose of "breaking" them).
The precursor of the agency that would become the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20football | Paper football (also called FIKI football, finger football, flick football, or tabletop football) refers to a table-top game, loosely based on American football, in which a sheet of paper folded into a small triangle is slid back and forth across a table top by two opponents. This game is widely practiced for entertain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaOS | JavaOS is a discontinued operating system based on a Java virtual machine. It was originally developed by Sun Microsystems. Unlike Windows, macOS, Unix, or Unix-like systems which are primarily written in the C programming language, JavaOS is primarily written in Java. It is now considered a legacy system.
History
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lites | Lites is a discontinued Unix-like operating system, based on 4.4BSD and the Mach microkernel. Specifically, Lites is a multi-threaded server and emulation library that provided unix functions to a Mach-based system. At the time of its release, Lites provided binary compatibility with 4.4BSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, 386BSD, U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/360%20and%20successors | Disk Operating System/360, also DOS/360, or simply DOS, is the discontinued first member of a sequence of operating systems for IBM System/360, System/370 and later mainframes. It was announced by IBM on the last day of 1964, and it was first delivered in June 1966. In its time, DOS/360 was the most widely used operat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible%20Application%20Markup%20Language | Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML ) is a declarative XML-based language developed by Microsoft for initializing structured values and objects. It is available under Microsoft's Open Specification Promise.
XAML is used extensively in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight, Workflow Foundation (W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20tuner%20card | A TV tuner card is a kind of television tuner that allows television signals to be received by a computer. Most TV tuners also function as video capture cards, allowing them to record television programs onto a hard disk much like the digital video recorder (DVR) does.
The interfaces for TV tuner cards are most commo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcast | A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. A webcast may either be distributed live or on demand. Essentially, webcasting is "broadcasting" over the Internet.
The largest "webcasters" inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20signature | An electronic signature, or e-signature, is data that is logically associated with other data and which is used by the signatory to sign the associated data. This type of signature has the same legal standing as a handwritten signature as long as it adheres to the requirements of the specific regulation under which it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Maynard%20Smith%20Prize | The John Maynard Smith Prize is a prize given by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology on odd years to an outstanding young researcher. It was first awarded in 1997 and is named after the evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith (1920–2004).
List of winners
Source: European Society for Evolutionary Biology
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlewood%20conjecture | In mathematics, the Littlewood conjecture is an open problem () in Diophantine approximation, proposed by John Edensor Littlewood around 1930. It states that for any two real numbers α and β,
where is the distance to the nearest integer.
Formulation and explanation
This means the following: take a point (α, β) in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20Mersenne%20number | In mathematics, a double Mersenne number is a Mersenne number of the form
where p is prime.
Examples
The first four terms of the sequence of double Mersenne numbers are :
Double Mersenne primes
A double Mersenne number that is prime is called a double Mersenne prime. Since a Mersenne number Mp can be prime only i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Congress%20of%20Mathematicians | The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
The Fields Medals, the IMU Abacus Medal (known before 2022 as the Nevanlinna Prize), the Gauss Prize, and the Chern Medal are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival%20of%20the%20fittest | "Survival of the fittest" is a phrase that originated from Darwinian evolutionary theory as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection. The biological concept of fitness is defined as reproductive success. In Darwinian terms, the phrase is best understood as "Survival of the form that will leave the most co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstone%20boson | In particle and condensed matter physics, Goldstone bosons or Nambu–Goldstone bosons (NGBs) are bosons that appear necessarily in models exhibiting spontaneous breakdown of continuous symmetries. They were discovered by Yoichiro Nambu in particle physics within the context of the BCS superconductivity mechanism, and s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86%20instruction%20listings | The x86 instruction set refers to the set of instructions that x86-compatible microprocessors support. The instructions are usually part of an executable program, often stored as a computer file and executed on the processor.
The x86 instruction set has been extended several times, introducing wider registers and data... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSTR-TV | WSTR-TV (channel 64), branded on-air as Star 64 (stylized as STAR64), is a television station in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Deerfield Media, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of dual CBS/CW affiliate WKRC-TV (channel ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRGT-TV | WRGT-TV (channel 45) is a television station in Dayton, Ohio, United States, affiliated with the digital multicast network Dabl. It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of ABC/Fox/MyNetworkTV affiliate WKEF (channel 22), for the prov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDSM-TV | KDSM-TV (channel 17) is a television station in Des Moines, Iowa, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. The station is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, and has studios on Fleur Drive in Des Moines; its transmitter is located in Alleman, Iowa.
History
Prior history of UHF channel 17 in Des Moines
Central I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNUV | WNUV (channel 54) is a television station in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, affiliated with The CW. It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of Fox/MyNetworkTV affiliate WBFF (channel 45), for the provision of programming and cer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNYO-TV | WNYO-TV (channel 49) is a television station in Buffalo, New York, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Fox affiliate WUTV (channel 29). Both stations share studios on Hertel Avenue near Military Road in Buffalo, while WNYO-TV's transmitter is located on Whitehav... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUHF | WUHF (channel 31) is a television station in Rochester, New York, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to dual ABC/CW affiliate WHAM-TV (channel 13) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Deerfield Media. Both stations share studi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVCW | KVCW (channel 33) is a television station in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, affiliated with The CW and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside NBC affiliate KSNV (channel 3). Both stations share studios on Foremaster Lane in Las Vegas (making them the only major television stations whose opera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMYA-TV | WMYA-TV (channel 40) is a television station licensed to Anderson, South Carolina, United States, broadcasting the digital multicast network Dabl to Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina. It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting and operated under a local marketing agreement (LMA) by Sinclair Broadcast Group,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypting%20File%20System | The Encrypting File System (EFS) on Microsoft Windows is a feature introduced in version 3.0 of NTFS that provides filesystem-level encryption. The technology enables files to be transparently encrypted to protect confidential data from attackers with physical access to the computer.
EFS is available in all versions o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPNT | WPNT (channel 22) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with The CW and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Fox affiliate WPGH-TV (channel 53). Both stations share studios on Ivory Avenue in the city's Summer Hill section, where WPNT's transmitter is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGWG | WGWG (channel 4) is a television station in Charleston, South Carolina, United States, affiliated with the multicast network MeTV. The station is owned by Howard Stirk Holdings. WGWG's transmitter is located near Awendaw, South Carolina.
From 1962 through 2014, what is now WGWG was the original home of WCIV, and had b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUXP-TV | WUXP-TV (channel 30) is a television station in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside dual Fox/CW affiliate WZTV (channel 17); it is also sister to Dabl affiliate WNAB (channel 58), which Sinclair operates under an outsourcing agreement with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNAB | WNAB (channel 58) is a television station in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with the digital multicast network Dabl. It is owned by Tennessee Broadcasting, which maintains an outsourcing agreement with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of Fox/CW affiliate WZTV (channel 17) and MyNetworkTV affiliate WUXP-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer%20automorphism%20group | In mathematics, the outer automorphism group of a group, , is the quotient, , where is the automorphism group of and ) is the subgroup consisting of inner automorphisms. The outer automorphism group is usually denoted . If is trivial and has a trivial center, then is said to be complete.
An automorphism of a grou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20set | A television set or television receiver (more commonly called TV, TV set, television, telly, or tele) is an electronic device for the purpose of viewing and hearing television broadcasts, or as a computer monitor. It combines a tuner, display, and loudspeakers. Introduced in the late 1920s in mechanical form, televisio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaan%20van%20Roomen | Adriaan van Roomen (29 September 1561 – 4 May 1615), also known as Adrianus Romanus, was a mathematician, professor of medicine and medical astronomer from the Duchy of Brabant in the Habsburg Netherlands who was active throughout Central Europe in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. As a mathematician he worked in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian%20%28astronomy%29 | In astronomy, the meridian is the great circle passing through the celestial poles, as well as the zenith and nadir of an observer's location. Consequently, it contains also the north and south points on the horizon, and it is perpendicular to the celestial equator and horizon. Meridians, celestial and geographical, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian%20%28geography%29 | In geography and geodesy, a meridian is the locus connecting points of equal longitude, which is the angle (in degrees or other units) east or west of a given prime meridian (currently, the IERS Reference Meridian). In other words, it is a line of longitude. The position of a point along the meridian is given by that l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20Mazurkiewicz | Stefan Mazurkiewicz (25 September 1888 – 19 June 1945) was a Polish mathematician who worked in mathematical analysis, topology, and probability. He was a student of Wacław Sierpiński and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU). His students included Karol Borsuk, Bronisław Knaster, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Stan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewWave | NewWave is a discontinued object-oriented graphical desktop environment and office productivity tool for PCs running early versions of Microsoft Windows (beginning with 2.0). It was developed by Hewlett-Packard and introduced commercially in 1988. It was used on the HP Vectras and other IBM compatible PCs running Windo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman%E2%80%93Kac%20formula | The Feynman–Kac formula, named after Richard Feynman and Mark Kac, establishes a link between parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) and stochastic processes. In 1947, when Kac and Feynman were both Cornell faculty, Kac attended a presentation of Feynman's and remarked that the two of them were working on the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20nonsense | In mathematics, abstract nonsense, general abstract nonsense, generalized abstract nonsense, and general nonsense are nonderogatory terms used by mathematicians to describe long, theoretical parts of a proof they skip over when readers are expected to be familiar with them. These terms are mainly used for abstract meth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20memory | High memory is the part of physical memory in a computer which is not directly mapped by the page tables of its operating system kernel. The phrase is also sometimes used as shorthand for the High Memory Area, which is a different concept entirely.
Some operating system kernels, such as Linux, divide their virtual add... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo%20Hadwiger | Hugo Hadwiger (23 December 1908 in Karlsruhe, Germany – 29 October 1981 in Bern, Switzerland) was a Swiss mathematician, known for his work in geometry, combinatorics, and cryptography.
Biography
Although born in Karlsruhe, Germany, Hadwiger grew up in Bern, Switzerland. He did his undergraduate studies at the Univers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20geometry%20and%20analytic%20geometry | In mathematics, algebraic geometry and analytic geometry are two closely related subjects. While algebraic geometry studies algebraic varieties, analytic geometry deals with complex manifolds and the more general analytic spaces defined locally by the vanishing of analytic functions of several complex variables. The de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-IL | The HP-IL (Hewlett-Packard Interface Loop), was a short-range interconnection bus or network introduced by Hewlett-Packard in the early 1980s. It enabled many devices such as printers, plotters, displays, storage devices (floppy disk drives and tape drives), test equipment, etc. to be connected to programmable calcula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic%20group | In mathematics, an arithmetic group is a group obtained as the integer points of an algebraic group, for example They arise naturally in the study of arithmetic properties of quadratic forms and other classical topics in number theory. They also give rise to very interesting examples of Riemannian manifolds and hence ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Connection%20Sharing | Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) is a Windows service that enables one Internet-connected computer to share its Internet connection with other computers on a local area network (LAN). The computer that shares its Internet connection serves as a gateway device, meaning that all traffic between other computers and the I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy%20%28emotion%29 | Ecstasy () is a subjective experience of total involvement of the subject with an object of their awareness. In classical Greek literature, it refers to removal of the mind or body "from its normal place of function."
Total involvement with an object of interest is not an ordinary experience. Ecstasy is an example of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20%28biology%29 | In molecular biology, a library is a collection of DNA fragments that is stored and propagated in a population of micro-organisms through the process of molecular cloning. There are different types of DNA libraries, including cDNA libraries (formed from reverse-transcribed RNA), genomic libraries (formed from genomic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%20number | In number theory, a Smith number is a composite number for which, in a given number base, the sum of its digits is equal to the sum of the digits in its prime factorization in the same base. In the case of numbers that are not square-free, the factorization is written without exponents, writing the repeated factor as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20management | Key management refers to management of cryptographic keys in a cryptosystem. This includes dealing with the generation, exchange, storage, use, crypto-shredding (destruction) and replacement of keys. It includes cryptographic protocol design, key servers, user procedures, and other relevant protocols.
Key management ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halton%20sequence | In statistics, Halton sequences are sequences used to generate points in space for numerical methods such as Monte Carlo simulations. Although these sequences are deterministic, they are of low discrepancy, that is, appear to be random for many purposes. They were first introduced in 1960 and are an example of a quas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golgi%27s%20method | Golgi's method is a silver staining technique that is used to visualize nervous tissue under light microscopy. The method was discovered by Camillo Golgi, an Italian physician and scientist, who published the first picture made with the technique in 1873. It was initially named the black reaction (la reazione nera) by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allelopathy | Allelopathy is a biological phenomenon by which an organism produces one or more biochemicals that influence the germination, growth, survival, and reproduction of other organisms. These biochemicals are known as allelochemicals and can have beneficial (positive allelopathy) or detrimental (negative allelopathy) effect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare-and-swap | In computer science, compare-and-swap (CAS) is an atomic instruction used in multithreading to achieve synchronization. It compares the contents of a memory location with a given value and, only if they are the same, modifies the contents of that memory location to a new given value. This is done as a single atomic ope... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20Security%20Authority%20Subsystem%20Service | Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) is a process in Microsoft Windows operating systems that is responsible for enforcing the security policy on the system. It verifies users logging on to a Windows computer or server, handles password changes, and creates access tokens. It also writes to the Windows Se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinsurance | Reinsurance is insurance that an insurance company purchases from another insurance company to insulate itself (at least in part) from the risk of a major claims event. With reinsurance, the company passes on ("cedes") some part of its own insurance liabilities to the other insurance company. The company that purchase... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20algorithm%20general%20topics | This is a list of algorithm general topics.
Analysis of algorithms
Ant colony algorithm
Approximation algorithm
Best and worst cases
Big O notation
Combinatorial search
Competitive analysis
Computability theory
Computational complexity theory
Embarrassingly parallel problem
Emergent algorithm
Evolutionary ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20algorithm | In quantum computing, a quantum algorithm is an algorithm which runs on a realistic model of quantum computation, the most commonly used model being the quantum circuit model of computation. A classical (or non-quantum) algorithm is a finite sequence of instructions, or a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical%20Recipes | Numerical Recipes is the generic title of a series of books on algorithms and numerical analysis by William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling and Brian P. Flannery. In various editions, the books have been in print since 1986. The most recent edition was published in 2007.
Overview
The Numerical Reci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coimage | In algebra, the coimage of a homomorphism
is the quotient
of the domain by the kernel.
The coimage is canonically isomorphic to the image by the first isomorphism theorem, when that theorem applies.
More generally, in category theory, the coimage of a morphism is the dual notion of the image of a morphism. If , th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEAnet | HEAnet is the national education and research network of Ireland.
HEAnet's e-infrastructure services support approximately 210,000 students and staff (third-level) in Ireland, and approximately 800,000 students and staff (first and second-level) relying on the HEAnet network. In total, the network supports approximate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haboush%27s%20theorem | In mathematics Haboush's theorem, often still referred to as the Mumford conjecture, states that for any semisimple algebraic group G over a field K, and for any linear representation ρ of G on a K-vector space V, given v ≠ 0 in V that is fixed by the action of G, there is a G-invariant polynomial F on V, without const... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lament | A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form. The grief is most often born of regret, or mourning. Laments can also be expressed in a verbal manner in which participants lament about something that they regret or someone that they have lost, and they are usually acco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Society%20of%20Mechanical%20Engineers | The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing education, training and professional development, codes and standards, rese... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence%20recovery%20after%20photobleaching | Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) is a method for determining the kinetics of diffusion through tissue or cells. It is capable of quantifying the two-dimensional lateral diffusion of a molecularly thin film containing fluorescently labeled probes, or to examine single cells. This technique is very usefu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20cloning | Disk cloning is the process of duplicating all data on a digital storage drive, such as a hard disk or solid state drive, using hardware or software techniques. Unlike file copying, disk cloning also duplicates the filesystems, partitions, drive meta data and slack space on the drive. Common reasons for cloning a drive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical%20hierarchy | In mathematical logic and descriptive set theory, the analytical hierarchy is an extension of the arithmetical hierarchy. The analytical hierarchy of formulas includes formulas in the language of second-order arithmetic, which can have quantifiers over both the set of natural numbers, , and over functions from to . Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel%20theory | A wheel is a type of algebra (in the sense of universal algebra) where division is always defined. In particular, division by zero is meaningful. The real numbers can be extended to a wheel, as can any commutative ring.
The term wheel is inspired by the topological picture of the real projective line together with a... |
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