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- [[File:Vladimir Arnold-1.jpg|thumb|In the middle of the twentieth century it was attempted to divide [[physics]] and [[mathematics]]. The [[consequen * '''At the beginning of this century a self-destructive democratic principle was advanced in mathematics (espec ...7 KB (1,051 words) - 02:10, 28 September 2024
- ...h they move?''' Let us again hear Lord Salisbury. [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury#AtomEther|He says]]<blockquote>"What the [[atom]] of ** <small>'''Ref''': [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury#AtomEther|Lord Salisbury]], Presidential Address to t ...38 KB (5,911 words) - 05:04, 12 February 2025
- <!--====NOTE: Need 3rd derivative notation "\dddot{x}" to add another term to all of the below ser ...nce. Definitive works on perspective were written much later by eighteenth-century mathematicians Brook Taylor and [[Johann Heinrich Lambert|J. H. Lambert]]. ...20 KB (3,201 words) - 21:24, 30 July 2024
- ...(1898) ''Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events'' 3rd series, Vol. II (Whole series, Vol. XXXVII) [https://books.google.com/books ...hysics in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century is written, the name of Carl Barus will occupy an important place.''' ...18 KB (2,875 words) - 09:24, 20 October 2024
- ...least of all the specialist in any one department. Furthermore it takes a century or more to weigh men and their discoveries, thus making the judgment of con ...s event occurred about 650 B.C., and the invention of printing in the 15th century did not more surely effect a revolution in thought than did this introducti ...21 KB (3,362 words) - 18:17, 23 February 2021
- * '''Probably the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century, Paul Erdős … was so eccentric that he made [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]] lo ...Richard K. Guy|Richard K. Guy]] in ''Unsolved Problems in Number Theory'', 3rd Edition (2004) ...24 KB (3,973 words) - 19:00, 28 August 2024
- ...ist known to us, the Greek Diophantus (360 A.D.), antedates Aryabhata by a century; but Cajori believes that he took his lead from India. ...wn and influential. But it was not until the last quarter of the sixteenth century that '''[[w:François Viète|Vieta]] undertook to modify Diophantus' techniqu ...31 KB (4,871 words) - 01:17, 3 November 2023
- :<small>by J.H. Conway & N.J.A. Sloane (3rd edition, 1993)</small> ...e large scale science that ...seems ...[[Determinism|deterministic]]. This century it's not been so.'''<!--29:01--> ...31 KB (4,893 words) - 03:49, 23 July 2024
- ...thematician]], [[astronomer]] and astrologer, and a key figure in the 17th century astronomical revolution. He is best known for his [[w:Kepler's laws of plan ** Variant translation: '''It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.''' ...74 KB (11,859 words) - 22:58, 6 October 2024