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  • ...]] (15 December 1827, in [[Horncastle, Lincolnshire]] – 18 September 1913, in [[London]]) was a British mathematician. ...2 its president. In 1896 he received the [[De Morgan Medal]] of the LMS. In 1878 he was elected FRS. ...
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  • | short_title = Indian Contract Act, 1872 | long_title = To define and amend certain parts of the law relating to contracts. ...
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  • {{Short description|Principle in fluid mechanics}} ...given by [[Blaise Pascal]] that states that a pressure change at any point in a confined incompressible fluid is transmitted throughout the fluid such th ...
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  • ...off-Clausius Law used by Max Planck to demonstrate the universality of his law}} ...ly proportional to the square of the speed of propagation of the radiation in the medium (Clausius): ...
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  • ...Cyclopedia]]''.</ref> De Morgan's contributions to logic are heavily used in many branches of mathematics, including [[set theory]] and [[probability th ...tus was seven months old. As his father and grandfather had both been born in India, De Morgan used to say that he was neither English nor Scottish nor I ...
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  • {{Short description|A chapter in the Book of Esther}} ...ext-align: center; line-height: 1em">The Hebrew text of the Book of Esther in a scroll from 19th century, ink on vellum, with a case of gilded silver.</d ...
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  • [[File:Camels in Merzouga Desert.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|17 indivisible camels]] ...e animals (17 camels, 17 horses, 17 elephants, etc.) which must be divided in some stated proportion among a number of beneficiaries. It is a common exam ...
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  • ...er at the Realgymnasium (high school) in [[Stargard Szczeciński|Stargard]] in [[Pommern]]. Gerber is known for his controversial work on the [[speed of g ...ecause the basic laws of Weber and others were wrong (for example, Weber's law was superseded by Maxwell's equations), those hypotheses were rejected. ...
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  • ...ign: center; line-height: 1em">The pages containing the [[Book of Joshua]] in [[Leningrad Codex]] (1008 CE).</div>}} ...y Yahwistic writers during the time of the reformer Judean king [[Josiah]] in 7th century BCE.<ref name=gilad/>{{sfn|Coogan|2007|p=314 Hebrew Bible}} Thi ...
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  • ...inantly for scientific purposes. The kelvin is one of the seven base units in the [[International System of Units]] (SI). ...oached very closely but not actually reached, as recognized in the [[third law of thermodynamics]]. It would be impossible to extract energy as heat from ...
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  • In [[geometry]], an object has '''symmetry''' if there is an [[Operation (math ==Euclidean symmetries in general== ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...nsion] as an indicator of target organ damage and a useful additional test in the investigation of [[hypertension]].<ref name="Mancia2013">{{cite journal ...similar to the calculation of the [[speed of sound]], <math>{c_0}</math>, in a [[Compressibility|compressible]] [[fluid]] (e.g. [[Atmosphere of Earth|ai ...
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  • ...by an ordinary differential equation that is derived from Newton's second law.]] ...ackexchange.com |publisher=[[Stack Exchange]] }}</ref> and, less commonly, in contrast with [[stochastic differential equations|''stochastic'' differenti ...
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  • ...5). p.19</ref> For a closed system, this is the formulation of the [[first law of thermodynamics]]. ...interacting bodies, for example, by the amount of ice melted or by change in [[temperature]] of a body.<ref>[[James Clerk Maxwell|Maxwell, J.C.]] (1871) ...
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  • ...flux from the microstate of the gas. To describe non-equilibrium phenomena in rarefied gases, the [[Boltzmann equation|Boltzmann transport equation]] mus ...monstrating that intermolecular collisions always produce the [[entropy]]. In other words, the [[Boltzmann equation]] is irreversible. ...
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  • ...rguments are commonly conceived ''[[A priori and a posteriori|a priori]]'' in regard to the organization of the universe, whereby, if such organizational ...t".<ref>Adamson, Peter (2013-07-04). "From the necessary existent to God". In Adamson, Peter (ed.). Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays. Cambridge Uni ...
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  • {{Short description|Engine in which fuel combusts with an oxidizer}} [[File:Four stroke engine diagram.jpg|thumb|Diagram of a cylinder as found in an overhead cam 4-stroke gasoline engine: {{ubl ...
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  • {{about|the history of the standards used in the metric system|history of adoption|Metrication}} [[File:Metric and imperial systems (2019).svg|thumb|400x400px|Units in everyday use by country as of 2019]] ...
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  • ...f the Institution faded away. It became increasingly dominated by research in basic science.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Baigrie |first=Brian |title=Electricit ...e Charles Darwin and James Prescott Joule. But the Society reformed itself in the 1830s and 1840s. By 1847, it only admitted the new breed of professiona ...
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