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...ovember 1866 – 12 August 1945) was a German [[mathematician]] specializing in [[differential geometry]]. Scheffers was born on 21 November 1866 in the village of Altendorf near [[Holzminden]] (today incorporated into Holzm ...

...eD"/> He moved to [[Stockholm]] in 1933 because of the political situation in Germany. While at the [[Stockholm University|university]], he worked on [[m ...ped explain the <math>g=2</math> [[g-factor (physics)|''g''-factor]] value in the electron's [[gyromagnetic ratio]]. ...

...author=Havelock, T. H.|year=1907|title=The Dispersion of Double Refraction in Relation to Crystal Structure|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of L ...n the 1930s Armstrong College became part of King's College, Durham, which in the 1960s became part of Newcastle University.) ...

...(EMW). It is 20,000 pages in length (6 volumes, ''i.e. Bände'', published in 23 separate books <ref name=books>Books 1-1, 1-2, 2-1-1, 2-1-2, 2-2, 2-3-1, ...ia. In 1904 he contributed a preparatory report on the publication venture in which the [[mission statement]] is given. ...

...uler johnson crit NEW.jpg|thumb|right|Graph of Johnson's parabola (plotted in red) against Euler's formula, with the transition point indicated. The area ...The formula is based on experimental results by J. B. Johnson from around 1900 as an alternative to [[Euler's critical load]] formula under low [[slendern ...

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...sical system under observation, and as such has been the topic of research in very diverse fields, from [[economics]] to [[ecology]].<ref>Redner, S. (200 ...äkering av Kollektivrisker, Almqvist & Wiksell, Uppsala.</ref> An interest in the mathematical properties of first-hitting-times and statistical models a ...

...ramming language]] developed for and used on [[ICT 1900 series]] computers in the late 1960s and early 1970s; it was implemented as an incremental [[BASI ...code to be renumbered, by default in increments of 10, to allow more space in the middle of a program. ...

...tion number]]. It is widely used to identify individuals and organisations in Iceland. ...e issued to Icelandic citizens at birth, and to foreign nationals resident in Iceland upon registration.<ref name="Þjóðskrá">{{Cite web|url=https://www.s ...

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...ited Kingdom)|National Physical Laboratory]].{{sfn|CWTL|2008|pp=229–230}} In 1904, she signed a petition for women to be admitted as a Fellow of the [[C ...|2008|p=265}} When Marshall was five years old, her father died at age 67. In 1922, her mother died. ...

...h|text=[[Principia Mathematica]]—a book of Russell and Whitehead published in 1910–1913}} ...f Mathematics''''' ('''''PoM''''') is a 1903 book by [[Bertrand Russell]], in which the author presented [[Russell's paradox|his famous paradox]] and arg ...

...}</ref> and Bauer's conic sections. He earned a footnote in the history of science as the doctoral advisor (''Doktorvater'') of [[Heinrich Burkhardt]], who be ...r Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet]]. From 1842 Gustav Bauer continued his studies in [[Paris]] under [[Joseph Liouville]], as well as other mathematicians. ...

{{short description|Concept in political science}} {{about|a trend observed in national legislature sizes relative to the country's population|the scienti ...

Manifolds in contemporary mathematics come in a number of types. These include: ...ifferentiable manifold|smooth]] manifolds, which are basic in [[calculus]] in several variables, [[analysis (mathematics)|mathematical analysis]] and [[d ...

...is a quantitative measure of the loss of welfare that society has to take in order to guarantee fairness. ...ck">POF=\frac{\max_{D\in \text{Divisions}}{(\mathrm{welfare}(D))}}{\max_{D\in \text{Fair Divisions}}{(\mathrm{welfare}(D))}}</math> ...

...ic and Differential Topology, 1900 - 1960 |date=2009 |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]] |isbn=978-0-8176-4907-4 |page=289 |url=https://bo ...amental theorem of calculus]] is the basic result in [[integral calculus]] in one dimension, and a primal "integral theorem". An [[antiderivative]] of a ...

...ringer Science+Business Media|location=New York}}</ref> and is used widely in the field of vision and chromatic adaptation. ...of these cones in different combinations and to different degrees results in the perception of other colors. ...

...s at the surface of a conductive [[electrode]] carrying a high [[voltage]] in an [[Insulator (electricity)|insulating medium]] such as air. Streamers ar ...([[Townsend discharge]]s) create ionized, electrically conductive regions in the air near the electrode. The [[space charge]] created by the electron a ...