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  • ...es not necessarily use the maths already in maths books, hence theoretical physicists should be prepared to explore ... all of pure mathematics"</blockquote> This quote from Majid's ''On Space and Time'' was presented as reply to physicists who attack mathematicians while turning to maths books for structures to us ...
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  • {{Short description|Indian physicist (1915–1997)}} | nationality = Indian ...
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  • ...in]]'s invention prior to the War had been constructed at Queen Mary by an Indian student S. Sharan for his PhD work. This bridge was applied successfully to ...anczos]]. The work of these two leading theoretical physicists of the 20th century was a source of great inspiration to him and helped in shaping his future w ...
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  • ...cipates in interdisciplinary dialogues involving mathematicians, chemists, physicists, and chemical engineers.{{vague|date=March 2023}} * Chevron Chair Professorship at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras (2011) ...
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  • The adjective ''real'', used in the 17th century by [[René Descartes]], distinguishes real numbers from [[imaginary number]] ...tion was a major development of [[History of mathematics#19th century|19th-century mathematics]] and is the foundation of [[real analysis]], the study of [[re ...
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  • | birth_place = [[Kasur]], [[Punjab, British India|Punjab]], [[British Indian Empire|British India]]<br />{{small|(Present day in [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punj ...n was born in [[Kasur]], [[Punjab, British India|Punjab]] in the [[British Indian Empire]] on 20 May 1926 into a [[Kakazai]] family that had long been settle ...
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  • ...peared throughout history, including the work of [[Desargues]] in the 17th century, all the way back to the implicit use of [[spherical geometry]] to understa ...the theory of [[manifold]]s and [[Riemannian geometry]]. Later in the 19th century, it appeared that geometries without the [[parallel postulate]] ([[non-Eucl ...
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  • ...|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] ...
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  • ...[[history of Islam]], traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century.<ref name=Saliba>{{cite book|last=Saliba |first=George |author-link=George ...phor of a [[Golden age (metaphor)|golden age]] began to be applied in 19th-century literature about [[Islamic history]], in the context of the western aesthet ...
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  • ...school geometry: evolution of the two-column proof in the early twentieth century |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1020264906740 |journal=Edu ...{{Cite book |last=Zee |first=Anthony |title=Group Theory in a Nutshell for Physicists |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-691-16269-0 |e ...
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  • ...teseerx=10.1.1.58.8477 |s2cid=13387519 }}</ref> by [[Paolo Uccello]]. 15th century]] ...List of mathematical artists|Artists have used mathematics]] since the 4th century BC when the Greek [[sculpture|sculptor]] [[Polykleitos]] wrote [[Polykleito ...
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  • ...of the House of Representatives to honor the life and achievements of 19th Century Italian-American inventor Antonio Meucci, and his work in the invention of ...Amati/Amaticello.html|title=Violoncello by Andrea Amati, Cremona, Mid-16th Century|website=collections.nmmusd.org|access-date=2019-11-05}}</ref> ...
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  • The '''history of radiation protection''' begins at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries with the realization that [[ionizing radiation]] from natural and ...relessly, increasing awareness of the dangers of [[radiation]] in the 20th century led to the implementation of various preventive measures worldwide, resulti ...
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  • ...author=G. Falkovich| year=2011 | title=Fluid Mechanics (A short course for physicists)|url=http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item6173728/?site_locale=en ...] 5 and above.<ref>{{cite book | title=Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century | editor=Galison, P. |editor2=Roland, A. | publisher=Springer | year=2000 | ...
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  • ...a.2006.12.016|pmid=17386654}}</ref> but NMR was first a passion project of physicists. All three isotopes of hydrogen were found to have [[magnetic properties]] ...O2}}-driven suppression of photorespiration in {{C3}} plants over the 20th century|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|date=22 December 20 ...
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