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...2015 he was an [[emeritus]] professor of [[astronomy]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. ...on Laboratory]], where he performed [[Spectroscopy|spectroscopic]] studies of [[Solar System]] [[planet]]s and smaller bodies. In 1964 Spinrad was invite ...

...ths; Mac Lane was impressed by Roos and later wrote a very positive letter of recommendation for him.<ref name="Almkvist">{{cite journal|journal=Bulletin ...tps://crafoordprize.se/press_release/the-crafoord-prize-in-mathematics-and-astronomy-2008|website=crafoordprize.se|date=17 January 2008|access-date=3 June 2020} ...

...athematics]], that can be used to give a better approximation to the value of the mathematical constant {{pi}} (''pi'') than the partial sum approximatio Taking the partial sum of the first <math>n</math> terms we have the following approximation to {{pi} ...

...a decisive way. Degen has received much of the credit for the introduction of more modern and advanced [[mathematics]] in the [[Denmark-Norway|Danish-Nor ...{ISBN|3-540-66834-9}}.</ref> and was elected to the [[Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters]] in 1800.<ref name = Runeberg/> ...

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...ur [[angle]]s from 3.75[[Degree (angle)|°]] to 90° in steps of 3.75° (1/24 of a [[right angle]], 90°). Rsine is just the sine multiplied by a selected ra ...ing the [[Katapayadi system]], giving entries the appearance of the verses of a poem. ...

...ol]]. He was responsible for bringing to light several of the achievements of the Kerala school.<ref>{{Citation | title = The First Textbook of Calculus: Yuktibhāṣā ...

{{Short description|Branch of physics}} [[File:LorentzianWormhole.jpg|thumb|Visual representation of a [[Wormhole#Schwarzschild_wormholes|Schwarzschild wormhole]]. Wormholes ha ...

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...rphysics | accessdate=2009-08-23}}</ref> This equation and the usual value of {{math|1=''a'' = 3.5}} only applies to main-sequence stars with masses {{ma In summary, the relations for stars with different ranges of mass are, to a good approximation, as the following:<ref name="evolutionofs ...

{{Short description|Mathematical power series of arctangent}} ...d '''Gregory's series''', is the [[Taylor series]] expansion at the origin of the [[arctangent function]]:<ref name=boyer/> ...

...] (c.&nbsp;1350 – c.&nbsp;1425) or his followers in the [[Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics]].<ref>{{harvnb|Gupta|1987}}; {{harvnb|Katz|1995}}; {{harvn ...te journal |last=Horvath |first=Miklos |title=On the Leibnizian quadrature of the circle. |journal=Annales Universitatis Scientiarum Budapestiensis (Sect ...

{{short description|1919 observational test which confirmed Einstein's theory of general relativity}} ...lution image of the 1919 solar eclipse.tif|300px|thumb|The [[Solar eclipse of May 29, 1919|29 May 1919 solar eclipse]]]] ...

| birth_place = [[Montecorvino Rovella]], [[Kingdom of Naples]] | death_place = [[Naples]], [[Kingdom of Naples]] ...

{{Short description|Area of geometry, about angles and lengths}} ...chords]], while mathematicians in India created the earliest-known tables of values for trigonometric ratios (also called [[trigonometric functions]]) s ...

{{short description|Study of the scope and nature of logic}} ...to the philosophy of logic as the discipline investigating the properties of formal logical systems, like [[consistency]] and [[Completeness (logic)|com ...

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