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'''Adelaide Smith''' (born 1870 in [[Boone, Iowa]]) was an American mathematician who studied with [[David Hilbert]] at the ...he was also known as a talented [[piano]] player.{{r|tj}} After graduating from [[Wellesley College]] in 1893,{{r|leonard|singer|welmag}} where she complet ...

...m 1999 as Southwestern Bell Professor, from 2000 as Regents Professor, and from 2003 as Vaughan Foundation Professor). In 2004 he became a professor at [[O ...ng positions at [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]], at the [[University of Iowa]], at [[Fields Institute]], and at the [[Erwin Schrödinger International In ...

| birth_place = [[Waukon, Iowa]], U.S. ...He then pursued a graduate degree, earning a Master of Arts in mathematics from the [[University of Massachusetts]] in 1967.<ref name=":1" /> Subsequently, ...

...=1986|publisher=Iowa State University Press|isbn=0813809339|location=Ames, Iowa}}</ref><ref name="Herivel">{{cite encyclopedia | url=http://www.britannica. ...ens and mechanics]. ''Proceedings of the International Conference "Titan - from discovery to encounter" (April 13–17, 2004).'' Noordwijk, Netherlands: ESA ...

...portional to its expected number of intersection points with a random line from an appropriate [[probability distribution]] on lines. It is convenient to s ...st edges of the triangle, and otherwise it consists of three line segments from the vertices to the [[Fermat point]] of the triangle.{{r|nahin}} However, w ...

...= The transition from laminar (left) to turbulent (right) flow of water from a tap occurs as the Reynolds number increases. ...nt transition.jpg|thumb|right|The plume from this candle flame transitions from laminar to turbulent.]] ...

...m is proved using '''Cantor's first uncountability proof''', which differs from the more familiar proof using his [[Cantor's diagonal argument|diagonal arg ...&ndash;843}}.</ref> Cantor restates this theorem in terms more familiar to mathematicians of his time: "The set of real algebraic numbers can be written as an infini ...

...Metric 3D reconstruction and texture acquisition of surfaces of revolution from a single uncalibrated view |journal=IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis a ...a]]. Controversially, the artist [[David Hockney]] has argued that artists from the Renaissance onwards made use of the [[camera lucida]] to draw precise r ...

...rm|term= '''[[Mass number]]'''}}{{defn|defn=The mass number (symbol ''A'', from the German word ''Atomgewicht'' [atomic weight]),<ref>[[Jensen, William B.] ...ss–strain analysis|stress or strain space]] which separate "failed" states from "unfailed" states. A precise physical definition of a "failed" state is no ...