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- ...n the 19th century, then advocated by the [[Schiller Institute]] beginning in the 1980s with reference to the composer, but naming a pitch slightly lower ...1916. "The reason for the choice of 256 as middle C in scientific work is in order that the number of vibrations corresponding with any C shall be a who ...8 KB (1,254 words) - 13:38, 27 January 2025
- ...onymy-osborns-law/ |website=Flying Colour Maths|date=2 March 2020 }}</ref> In addition to this, Osborn enjoyed reading Spanish literature and was an avid ...metric]] and [[Hyperbolic functions|hyperbolic trigonometric]] identities. In conjunction with this he published various books with his colleague Charles ...6 KB (775 words) - 11:32, 3 November 2023
- * 5th century BC - The [[Zeno's paradoxes]], * 5th century BC - [[Antiphon (orator)|Antiphon]] attempts to [[Squaring the circle|squar ...14 KB (1,903 words) - 00:39, 2 March 2025
- ...|the Sierra Leone activist|Adelaide Casely-Hayford|the fictional character in the 1960s Broadway play Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright|Diana Sands}} ...ter life she became the principal of a school for girls, the second oldest in California. ...12 KB (1,702 words) - 23:29, 5 October 2024
- ...rg1.html on-line through KMODDL].</ref> It was introduced in the late 19th century by [[Ludwig Burmester]] (1840–1927). His approach was to compute the geomet ...matik''. Leipzig: Verlag von Arthur Felix, 1886.</ref> Two cranks designed in this way form the desired four-bar linkage. ...12 KB (2,038 words) - 17:21, 17 March 2023
- ...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 ...8 KB (1,264 words) - 13:18, 10 March 2024
- ...es at the Portuguese Royal Naval Academy, and then proceeded his education in Mathematics at the [[University of Coimbra]] where he became a [[doctorate| ...s)|couple]] in [[Classical mechanics]]<ref name=":2" /> and in [[Actuarial science]].<ref>{{Cite thesis|last=Martins|first=Ana Patrícia Morais da Fonseca|titl ...5 KB (741 words) - 02:02, 3 June 2023
- ...William Airey, a [[stone mason]], and Elizabeth Airey, who were both born in Preston under Scar, North Yorkshire. He was the oldest from four siblings, ...re College, the college did not award its own degrees.}} which was awarded in 1894.<ref name="Nature, Obit" /> ...11 KB (1,465 words) - 17:11, 15 July 2024
- ...rce'''" is a four-part paper written by [[James Clerk Maxwell]], published in 1861.<ref> ...onnection between the speed of light and the speed of propagation of waves in this medium. ...7 KB (1,027 words) - 01:15, 1 February 2025
- ...is a [[Hungarian American|Hungarian-American]] [[mathematician]], working in [[probability theory]] and [[discrete mathematics]]. He has been a professo ...es [[Almost everywhere convergence|converge pointwise almost everywhere]]. In probabilistic terminology, the theorem is as follows. Let ξ<sub>1</sub>,ξ<s ...7 KB (1,063 words) - 15:42, 22 September 2024
- :His principle achievement, which marks his place, in the future and the present, among the names of geometers that will endure, ...to include complementary algebra and analytic geometry. Bellavitis married in 1842 and had one son who also taught geometry at the University of Padua.<r ...6 KB (743 words) - 01:01, 4 February 2025
- In [[mathematics]], a '''centered octahedral number''' or '''Haüy octahedral n ...théorie sur la structure des crystaux |language=French |year=1784 }}. See in particular [https://books.google.com/books?id=ORwUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA13 pp.  ...6 KB (868 words) - 02:05, 13 December 2024
- ...he credit for the introduction of more modern and advanced [[mathematics]] in the [[Denmark-Norway|Danish-Norwegian]] school system. ...f> and was elected to the [[Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters]] in 1800.<ref name = Runeberg/> ...10 KB (1,539 words) - 14:56, 5 October 2024
- ...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 ...10 KB (1,425 words) - 22:39, 28 September 2023
- ...naval gunnery education. He wrote ''Marshall's Practical Marine Gunnery'' in 1821.{{sfn|Andrianis|2021|p=4}}{{sfn|Marshall|1822|p=3}}<ref name="timeline ...he famous burning of the captured [[USS Philadelphia (1799)|Philadelphia]] in Tripoli Harbor. America rewarded him for his service. He was invited to j ...26 KB (3,825 words) - 18:31, 18 September 2024
- [[File:Victor Yakovlevich Pan 01.jpg|thumb|Victor Pan in 1996]] ...n" for his pioneering work in the area of [[polynomial]] [[computation]]s. In late 1970s, he immigrated to the [[United States]] and held positions at se ...10 KB (1,326 words) - 07:19, 3 November 2024
- ...centuries, aided by the construction of the first [[wind tunnel]] in 1871. In his 1738 publication ''Hydrodynamica'', [[Daniel Bernoulli]] described a fu ...development of reasonable predictions of the thrust needed to power flight in conjunction with the development of high-lift, low-drag airfoils paved the ...29 KB (4,358 words) - 09:28, 30 January 2025
- ...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 ...10 KB (1,367 words) - 11:24, 18 November 2024
- ...lain, and predict [[List of natural phenomena|natural phenomena]]. This is in contrast to [[experimental physics]], which uses experimental tools to prob ...eoretical formulation.<ref name="Ref_s">{{cite web|title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921|publisher =The [[Nobel Foundation]]|url = http://nobelprize.or ...24 KB (3,242 words) - 06:59, 18 February 2025
- ...Business Media, 2012.</ref><ref name=":0" /> Newton published the solution in [[Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica|Principia Mathematica]] witho .... Among Newton’s manuscripts they found the draft text of a letter, … in which Newton elaborated his mathematical argument. [This] was never fully u ...15 KB (2,576 words) - 12:40, 24 February 2025