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...ed a prize essay contest in several different fields with an award of 40 [[Swedish riksdaler|riksdaler]] in each, Degen won the prize both in [[theology]] and had been known from the times of [[Diophantus]]. At the end of the 17th century it explained why the [[norm (mathematics)|norm]] of the product of two [[co ...

{{about|a branch of mathematics|the Swedish band|Abstrakt Algebra}} ...over a field]]. The term ''abstract algebra'' was coined in the early 20th century to distinguish it from older parts of algebra, and more specifically from [ ...

...r designed by a commission assembled by Pope Gregory XIII in the sixteenth century."}}{{efn|Many countries that use other calendars for religious purposes use ...ays; when Russia and Greece did so (for their civil calendars) in the 20th century, the jump was 13 days. For other countries and territories, see [[List of a ...

...|Columba]] is a small, faint [[constellation]] named in the late sixteenth century. Its name is [[Latin]] for [[dove]]. It is located just south of [[Canis Ma ...aint constellation in the [[southern sky]], first defined in the late 16th century. Its name means "no feet" in Greek, and it represents a [[bird-of-paradise] ...

<ref name="Stirzaker2000" /> At the end of the 19th century, [[Ladislaus Bortkiewicz]] studied the distribution, citing Poisson, using At the beginning of the 20th century the Poisson process (in one dimension) would arise independently in differe ...

In the last years of the 19th century, scientists frequently experimented with the [[cathode-ray tube]], which by ...ain applications into the 21st century, when it attracted the attention of mathematicians interested in its properties,<ref name="Gamow's Liquid Drops">{{cite journa ...