... the history of mathematics , Mathematics
Magazine 21 (1947), pp. 48 - 55, reports that Moritz Cantor’s groundbreaking
German language history of mathematics was eventually supplied with a list of
3000 ... Theorem?
In a general work such as an encyclopædia, the relevant facts about Napo-
leon are military and political. That he was fond of mathematics and discov-
ere...
... Unification
William A. Barletta
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Devices, Accelerating
Katharina Baur
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
Radiation, Synchrotron
Benjamin Bayman
University of Minnesota, ... Accelerator Laboratory
Experiment: Search for the Higgs Boson
Krishna Rajagopal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quark-Gluon Plasma
Regina Rameika
Fermi National Accele...
...
Introduction
1 Mathematics: myth and history
2 What is mathematics and who is a mathematician?
3 How are mathematical ideas disseminated?
4 Learning mathematics
5 Mathematical livelihoods
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... sum of the areas of its
component pieces.
Thus we calculate that
c
2
= (area of large square)
= (area of triangle) + (area of triangle) +
(area of triangle) + (area of triangle) +
(area of small ... a
larger square. Each triangle has legs a and b, and we take it that b> ;a.
Of course, on the one hand, the area of the larger square is c
2
. On the
other hand, the area...
... parliament
was the partner and accomplice of the crown. It was the weapon which the Tudors employed to pass Acts of
Attainder against feudal magnates and Acts of Supremacy against the church; and ... the general emancipation of servile classes and spread of intelligence by
the Renaissance had led to a demand for vernacular versions of the Scriptures and to a great deal of pr...
... causing
earthquakes and volcanoes, and raising a chain of mountains
from the Appalachians, across Ireland and Germany, to Poland.
Much of Europe and North America lay around the Carboniferous
equator, and ... Period
Cenozoic
Mesozoic
Palaeozoic
Precambrian
Proterozoic
Archaean
Hadean
Tertiary
Quaternary
Neogene
Palaeogene
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic
Permian
Carboniferous
Devonian
Silur...
... position of partial isolation.
It was more isolated than Eurasian fringes like Scandinavia or South-East Asia,
which gradually adopted Eurasian cultures. But it was less isolated than the
Americas, ... broad Saharan region at least as early as Afroasiatic. Nilo-Saharan may
be distantly related to the fourth family, the Niger-Congo languages, which are
spoken predominantly by Negroid peoples...
... discarding, after the Second World War, of war
as a legal institution, in favour of the alternate conception of aggres-
sion-and-self-defence. Treatment of new approaches to civil wars after
1945 and of ... pursuit of heavenly ideals or (more mundanely)
of the rule of law. For war-makers, it was a laissez-faire era, with war so
firmly ensconced as a routine feature of i...
... concentrated
hydrochloric acid first applied in the World War II era for conversion of cel-
lulose to sugars was again investigated by Battelle-Geneva on a pilot plant basis,
particularly of separation of the hydrochloric ... Tennessee Valley Authority
(Farina 1991) and the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Wyman
1991). Recent work by ARKENOL in California, USA (Cuzen 1997) a...