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...ves are named after French mathematician [[René Descartes]], who used them in [[optics]]. Let {{mvar|P}} and {{mvar|Q}} be fixed points in the plane, and let {{math|d(''P'', ''S'')}} and {{math|d(''Q'', ''S'')}} de ...

* 3rd century BC - [[Archimedes]] displays [[geometric series]] in ''[[The Quadrature of the Parabola]].'' He further develops the method of e ...ges=482–484 |s2cid=206644971 |url=https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aad8085}}</ref> ...

...g these problems to be approximated, the whole curve cannot be constructed in this way. ...of Hippias is a [[transcendental curve]]. It is one of several curves used in [[Greek mathematics]] for squaring the circle. ...

In [[mathematics]], and, more specifically in [[numerical analysis]] and [[computer algebra]], '''real-root isolation''' ...s with small imaginary part (see the example of [[Wilkinson's polynomial]] in next section). ...

{{Short description|17th-century conjecture proved by Andrew Wiles in 1994}} | first stated date = {{c.}} 1637 ...

...called "algebra", while the term "abstract algebra" is seldom used except in [[mathematical education|pedagogy]]. ...as single objects. For example, the structure of groups is a single object in universal algebra, which is called the ''[[variety (universal algebra)|vari ...

{{Short description|1995 publication in mathematics}} ...tid=67059|title=The Abel Prize 2016|date=2016|website=Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters|access-date=29 June 2017|archive-date=20 May 2020|archive-url=h ...

...be represented by symbolic abbreviations, and finally a "symbolic" stage, in which comprehensive notational systems for formulas are the norm. ...lo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/lebombo.html|title=OLDEST Mathematical Object is in Swaziland|publisher=|accessdate=March 15, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=h ...

...us]]<ref name="Machhi2020Sep" /> that is [[Contagious disease|contagious]] in humans.<ref name="Chan24Jan2020" /> ...llover event]] introducing SARS‑CoV‑2 to humans is likely to have occurred in late 2019.<ref name="early" /> ...

In the field of [[epidemiology]], '''source attribution''' refers to a categor ...inference|Bayesian methods]] that can accommodate substantial uncertainty in model parameters. ...

[[File:Oxford coat of arms 20050303.jpg|thumb|City coat of arms in [[Oxford Town Hall|Town Hall]]]] ...east of the town centre (on the site of modern-day [[Magdalen Bridge]]) is in existence.<ref name=OHW3>{{cite book|first=Malcolm|last=Graham|title=On Foo ...

...47.jpg|alt=|thumb|[[Leonardo da Vinci|Leonardo]] wrote aerodynamic studies in a notebook eventually titled <nowiki>''</nowiki>[[Codex on the Flight of Bi ...e |date=14 August 1964 |volume=145 |issue=3633 |pages=667–673 |doi=10.1126/science.145.3633.667 |pmid=14163799 |s2cid=21604946 }}</ref> and [[information tech ...