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...rman prisoners.jpg|right|225px|thumb|Empires come and go; so do ideologies and even religions, but war marches on through it all.]] ...olumnist for the magazine ''[[w:American Scientist|American Scientist]]'', and was editor in chief for the magazine from 1990 to 1992. ...

...s working from the point of view of getting [[beauty]] in one's equations, and if one has really a sound [[insight]], one is on a sure line of [[progress] ...sor of physics at [[w:Florida State University|Florida State University]], and a 1933 [[w:Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize in Physics]] recipient. ...

...[5 November]] [[1892]] – [[1 December]] [[1964]]) was a British geneticist and evolutionary biologist. ...assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my ...

...known for his theories on the {{w|Tipler cylinder}} (Tipler time machine) and for the {{w|Hart–Tipler conjecture}}, an argument that no intelligent life ...by the {{W|National Science Foundation}} under grants number MCS-76-21525 and PHY-77-15191.</small> ...

...onism}}. It originated in the 1st century BC and flourished during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. ...perception, of movement, and of breath, good color, health, cheerfulness, and immortality. ...

...' (27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an influential English mathematician and [[w:Biostatistics|biostatistician]]. He founded the world's first universit ...measure of heredity is the correlation of these organs for pairs of parent and offspring... The word organ here must be taken to include any characteristi ...

...ew things which lifts [[human]] [[life]] a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the [[grace]] of tragedy.]] ...w|Sheldon Glashow]]) for combining [[w:Electromagnetism|electromagnetism]] and the [[w:Weak interaction|weak force]] into the [[w:Electroweak interaction| ...

Mathematics and mysticism intersect in a manner reflected by the following collection of qu ...>[[#Problems of Mysticism and Its Symbolism (1917)|''Problems of Mysticism and Its Symbolism'' (1917)]]<br />[[#See also|See also]]-[[#External links|Exte ...

...terpretations of the significance of the [[w:wave function|wave function]] and for devising the [[w:Schrödinger's cat|Schrödinger's cat]] thought experime ...ou. Or, again, in such words as "I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world. ...

...unleashed the [[power]] of our [[imagination]]. We [[learned]] to [[talk]] and we learned to [[listen]].]] ...] [[w:theoretical physics|theoretical physicist]], [[cosmologist]], author and Director of Research at the [[w:Centre for Theoretical Cosmology|Centre for ...

...se of a combination of two facilities, which we may call ''[[intuition]]'' and ''[[ingenuity]]''.]] ...orial 2.JPG|thumb|right|A [[man]] provided with paper, pencil, and eraser, and subject to strict [[discipline]], is in effect a [[w:Turing machine|univers ...

...pioneering works of {{w|Carl Anton Bretschneider}}, {{w|Hermann Hankel}}, and {{w|George Johnston Allman}}, but included material, e.g., {{w|gematria}}, ...f it was not wanted, as it ought to have been, by our classical professors and our mathematicians, it would have served at any rate to quicken, with some ...

...professor at [[w:Arizona State University|Arizona State University]] (ASU) and full professor at [[w:Stockholm University|Stockholm University]]. ...t has transformed our understanding of the forces that govern our universe and revealed an inspiring vision of a world that embodies mathematical beauty." ...

...made common the use of the [[w:decimal point|decimal point]] in arithmetic and mathematics. ...all any Prince be able to be''' one of the destroyers of that great seate, and '''a purger of the world''' from Antichristianisme, '''who purgeth not his ...

...w:approximation theory|approximation theory]], [[w:set theory|set theory]] and [[w:probability theory|probability theory]]. ...But you see some of the problems in number theory are enormously difficult and many of these classic problems are very, very hard to make any progress in. ...

...enaissance]] [[mathematician]], [[physician]], [[w:astrologer|astrologer]] and [[w:gambler|gambler]], applying [[w:probability calculus|probability calcul ...otage, yea rather than not to be housed at all refuse not the pore cabbon, and most beggerly cave. '''So necessarie is this gift of consolacion, as there ...

...right|The first [[principle]] is that you must not [[fool]] [[yourself]] – and you are the easiest [[person]] to fool.]] ...Physics|Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 1965 jointly with [[Julian Schwinger]] and [[Shin'ichirō Tomonaga]]. Feynman developed a widely used pictorial represe ...

...he [[heat equation]]. [[Heat]] is being generated internally in the casing and being cooled at the boundary, providing a {{w|steady state}} temperature di ...minent role in many disciplines including engineering, physics, economics, and biology. Only the simplest differential equations are solvable by explicit ...

...mb|The [[symbol]] and the [[metaphor]] are as [[Necessity|necessary]] to [[science]] as to [[poetry]].]] ...st, and science historian of Polish origin. He is remembered as the writer and presenter of the 1973 BBC television documentary series, ''[[w:The Ascent o ...

.... J. Whitrow''', was a British mathematician, cosmologist and historian of science. ...'; he overcame the difficulty by dividing the solid into numberless planes and treating each plane in the same manner as the plane above, thereby obtainin ...