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...le:Dirac,Paul 1929 Chicago.jpg|thumb|right|It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting [[beauty]] in one's equations, and if one has * At the beginning of time the laws of Nature were probably very different from what they are now. Thus '''we should consider the laws of Nature as continu ...

...m|Porisms]]'' form the part the loss of which is most to be regretted, for from the references to them it is clear that they contained propositions in the ...ng of the Cube]]. The tradition concerning its origin is given in a letter from [[w:Eratosthenes|Eratosthenes]] of Cyrene to [[w:Ptolemy III Euergetes|King ...

...was the birth of reinforced concrete, but subsequent development differed from Lambot’s concept. The technology of the period could not accommodate the ti ...terranean. {{w|Rafael Guastavino}}... upon emigrating to the United States from {{w|Catalonia}} in 1881, introduced the method with great success. His son, ...

* '''Madam, I have come from a country where [[people]] are hanged if they [[talk]].''' ...russia, on his lack of conversation in his meeting with her, on his return from Russia; as quoted in ''Science in Russian Culture : A History to 1860'' (19 ...

...o raise on high a vault of a round arch, must constantly draw a line round from its exact centre, and in accordance with the sure standard it gives discove ...nding the shape of cables. ...If the actual shape of the arch is different from funicular shape, the bending moment at any section of an arch is proportion ...

...thematicians did not feel so encumbered and have required only consistency from their lists of axioms. ...It remains to be seen whether the initial conditi ...r|Fourier]] in that of trigonometric series, or [[w:Bhāskara II|Bhaskara]] from Lagrange in the region of [[w:Pell's equation|Fermat's equation]]. Professi ...

...k mathematician, 3rd century BC, as imagined by [[Raphael]] in this detail from ''The School of Athens''.<ref>No likeness or description of Euclid's physic ...s does not correspond to simple observation … [[Euclid]]'s postulates came from the Pythagorean theorem, not the other way around. ~ [[Richard Hamming]] ]] ...