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...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 ...

...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) === ...

...[w:Classification of discontinuities|discontinuous functions]] are the sum of infinite series was a breakthrough. ...l equation for conductive diffusion of heat is now taught to every student of mathematical physics. ''Théorie Analytique de la Chaleur'' was edited and r ...

...mbler]], applying [[w:probability calculus|probability calculus]] to games of chance. <small>[[w:Thomas Bedingfield (d. 1613)|Thomas Bedingfield's]] translation of ''De Consolatione'' (1542)</small> ...

...nts, Abel was largely unrecognized during his lifetime and died at the age of 26. ...s memoir with good will, for its purpose is to fill this gap in the theory of [[w:Algebraic equation|algebraic equations]]. ...

...factor (cosmology)|cosmic scale factor]] <math>a </math>, a key parameter of the {{w|Friedmann equations}}.]] ...h>\Lambda</math> appears in the {{w|Einstein field equations}} in the form of <math>R_{\mu \nu} -\frac{1}{2}R\,g_{\mu \nu} +\Lambda\,g_{\mu \nu} = {8 \pi ...

...jpg|thumb|Rest [[satisfied]] with doing well, and leave others to [[talk]] of you as they please.]] ...massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.]] ...

...manual with the cerebral, and of practice, experimentation, and the growth of technology with theory. ...ng; ...Portuguese seamen had clarified many doubts and shown the existence of the [[wiktionary:antipodes#Noun|antipodes]] etc.. ...

...site is reflected in arithmetic. For example, −−3 = 3 because the opposite of an opposite is the original thing. Negative numbers are usually written wit ...by Victor J. Katz, Karen Hunger Parshall, ''Taming the Unknown: A History of Algebra from Antiquity to the Early Twentieth Century'' (2014) p. 160. ...

...ield of [[probability]], where he derived the first version of the {{w|law of large numbers}} in his work ''{{w|Ars Conjectandi}}''. ...available arguments, their valuation, and their calculable evaluation; law of large numbers... ...

...Culture]], an organization dedicated to promulgating the [[pseudoscience]] of [[intelligent design]]. === ''[[w:A Tour of the Calculus|A Tour of the Calculus]]'' (1995) === ...

...of thermodynamics|Laws of thermodynamics]] to sum up the basic principles of the subject; in the 20th century, an unofficial "zeroth law" was added. ...geometry: The geometrical method of Gibbs' thermodynamics," in Proceedings of the Gibbs Symposium, D. Caldi and G. Mostow, eds. (American Mathematical So ...

...he so-called "[[w:Napier's bones|Napier's bones]]" and made common the use of the [[w:decimal point|decimal point]] in arithmetic and mathematics. ...himself by private meditations with his God?'''<!--"To the King" (James VI of Scotland)--> ...

...and served to remove some barriers to clearer thinking in the development of calculus. :<small>Translation ''[https://archive.org/details/TheGeometry The Geometry of René Descartes]'' (1925) by [[w:David Eugene Smith|David E. Smith]] and Mar ...

...credited, independently of [[John Napier]], as a co-inventor of [[History of logarithms|logarithms]]. * [D]ue to a lack of languages, the door to... authors has not always been open to me, as... to ...

...thout regard to applications to [[human]] [[needs]], is usually ultimately of direct [[benefit]] to [[mankind]].]] ...ical bonding|chemical bonding]] theory, he outlined his "concentric theory of atomic structure". He was awarded the 1932 [[w:Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nob ...

'''[[w:Mathematics education|Mathematics education]]''' is the practice of teaching and learning mathematics, along with the associated scholarly rese ...nt dealing with the psychological block against learning math&mdash;or any of the sciences. ...

...not the [[eternal]] [[prisons]] they were once thought. Things can get out of a black hole, both to the outside, and possibly to another [[universe]]. So ...body}} of a temperature inversely proportional to its mass. The discovery of {{w|neutron star}}s sparked interest in gravitationally collapsed compact o ...