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...ng his lifetime survived antiquity. Therefore, Euclid's depiction in works of art depends on the artist's imagination (see ''[[Euclid]]'').</ref>]] ...turned out to be the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe that are concealed by appearances. ~ [[Hannah Arend ...

...ry of Mathematics''''' by [[Florian Cajori]] was the first popular history of mathematics written in the United States. It was published in 1893. ...takes pride in the fact that his science, more than any other, is an exact science and that hardly anything ever done in mathematics has proved to be useless. ...

...vg|right|thumb|400px|{{center|Lines with a common perpendicular in 3 types of geometry}}]] ...icle contains a variety of entries focusing on the history and development of the subject. ...

...cation, ''Leçons élémentaires sur les mathematiques'', containing a series of lectures delivered the same year at the [[w:École Normale Supérieure|Ecole === Lecture III. On Algebra, Particularly the Resolution of Equations of the Third and Fourth Degree === ...

...her for the first time electricity, magnetism, and light as manifestations of the same phenomenon. ...tion]]'', ''[[The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell]]'', ''[[Theory of Heat]]'', ...

...le:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.jpg|thumb|right|<center>Portrait of John Wallis<br />by Sir [[Godfrey Kneller]], 1st Baronet (1701)</center>]] ...on|Newton]] and one of the greatest intellectuals of the early renaissance of [[mathematics]]. ...

...larly {{w|ring theory}}), {{w|algebraic number theory}} and the definition of the {{w|real number}}s. :<small>translated as ''Essays on the Theory of Numbers'' (1909) by Wooster Woodruff Beman</small> ...

...b. 1945) (Zee comes from the [[w:Shanghainese|Shanghainese]] pronunciation of [[wikt:徐|徐]]) is a Chinese-American physicist and author. ...eported underground muon events from Cygnus X-3. We focus on the violation of various quantum numbers, including electron, muon, and tauon numbers. ...

...fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics. He was one of the most important advocates for atomic theory which was still highly contr ...[''verhängnisvoll''] '''if one values one's life.''' The title [Principles of Natural Philosophy] doesn't tell us anything coherent .... [it is] essentia ...

...f thermodynamics. He introduced the concept of [[Thermodynamics#Second Law of Thermodynamics/Entropy|entropy]] in 1865, and the [[w:Virial theorem|virial === ''The Mechanical Theory of Heat'' (1867) === ...

...x|<center>An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump<br />by {{w|Joseph Wright of Derby}}</center>]] '''{{w|Vacuum}}''' is space devoid of matter. The word stems from the Latin adjective ''vacuus'' for "vacant" or ...

[[File:CMB Timeline300 no WMAP.jpg|thumb|520px|<center>'''Expansion of the Universe'''<br />after the [[Big Bang]]<br />[[Cosmic microwave backgro ...ate-time {{w|acceleration}}. According to the simplest {{w|extrapolation}} of the currently favored [[w:Physical cosmology|cosmological model]], the {{w| ...

...s, is now shown to be only approximately correct. The underlying structure of matter, however, is not mechanical. This means that the term "quantum mecha ...ntum technology]], and [[w:quantum information science|quantum information science]]. ...

...questions of shape, size, relative position of figures, and the properties of space. ...not feel so encumbered and have required only consistency from their lists of axioms. ...

...al to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. ...U–Z]]<br />[[#The Origins of Modern Science (1949)|''The Origins of Modern Science'' (1949)]]<br />[[#See also|See also]], [[#External links|External links]]< ...

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity''}} ...pectively. The second edition, published in 1906, is a fundamental rewrite of the entire previous two volume set. The following quotes are from the secon ...

...r, an equation has no [[meaning]] for me unless it expresses a [[thought]] of [[God|GOD]].]] ...o that of [[Euler]] and [[Carl Friedrich Gauss|Gauss]]. He became a Fellow of the [[w:Royal Society|Royal Society]], and [[India]] now observes his birth ...

...[[1731]]) was an English mathematician and secretary of the Royal Society of London, most famous for [[w:Taylor's theorem|Taylor's theorem]] and the [[w ...a fine Discourse upon any Subject, without [[understanding]] the Propriety of the [[Language]] wrote in; and to me it seems no less ridiculous for one to ...

...Neopythagoreanism|Neopythagorean]] who wrote about the mystical properties of numbers, Nicomachus was strongly influenced by [[Aristotle]]. === ''Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic'' (1926) === ...

...oppression. The second is a show of force, and an act of oppression in and of itself. ...ests|Evergreen State College]] faculty (March, 2017) objecting to the "Day of Absence" change, requesting white students and faculty to stay at home, rat ...