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...in physical theory owes much to its possessing the same kind of excellence from which pure geometry and pure mathematics in general derive their interest, ...Royal Society]] and a Fellow of [[w:Merton College, Oxford|Merton College, Oxford]]. ...

...baryons or mesons), and [[w:Atomic nucleus|atomic nuclei]]. It is distinct from [[w:Angular momentum operator|orbital angular momentum]] (which is more aki ...ivity, superfluids, and condensates|publisher=Oxford Univ. Press|location= Oxford|date= 2004|page=11|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Superconductivi ...

...real sense my last, since the rest is mere technique, which can be learnt from books. ...f 1955, Ward had independently conceived a two stage device, the radiation from the first (fission) stage being used to compress the light elements of the ...

...o inquired if there was anything that could be concluded about the Creator from the study of creation; as described in "Homage to Santa Rosalia, or why are ...s for beetles". <br> If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation, it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness fo ...

...and Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, famous for his work in mathematical physics, [[cosmology]], general relati ...as it is understood today. Well anyway, this book was written and various people commented to me and they said perhaps I could use this book for a course Ph ...

* '''Perhaps the first to approach the fourth dimension from the side of physics, was the Frenchman, [[Nicole Oresme]], of the fourteent ...e past must be recalled by the dubious aid of memory, the future is hidden from us, and only the present is directly experienced. This striking dissimilari ...

* In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory. ** from Boltzmann's notes for his lecture on natural philosophy given on October 24 ...

...lian accelerator physicist who runs research groups at the [[University of Oxford]] and the {{w|University of Melbourne}}, where she is developing new {{w|pa ...ive commons''' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cfD0uf4Iw8 YouTube Video] from the [https://www.youtube.com/@InstituteofPhysics Institute of Physics chann ...

'''[[w:Infinity|Infinity]]''' (symbolzed: ∞) is a term derived from the Latin ''infinitas'' or "unboundedness" denoting concepts involving limi ...valieri's principle#History|doctrine of indivisibles]] and to eliminate it from philosophical and scientific consideration. In the very years that [[Thomas ...

...ether was persistent. It took an [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]] to remove it from the Universe. ...Gradually, over the last twenty years, '''the vacuum has t * The difficult surface conditions met with when light passes from one medium to another, including such subjects as ellipticity, total reflec ...

...view of the world being analogous to a huge machine, the predominant view from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, is now shown to be only approximatel Quantum mechanics differs from classical physics in that [[energy]], [[w:momentum|momentum]], [[w:angular ...

...etails/historyofchemist02thoruoft/page/n10/mode/1up?view=theater Vol. II.] From 1850 to 1910 (1910).<!--History of Chemistry (book)--> ===Volume 1. From the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century (1909)=== ...

[[File:CMB_Timeline300_no_WMAP.jpg|right|thumb| Many people would claim that the boundary conditions are not part of [[physics]] but be ...uxurious [[leisure]] if the machine-produced [[wealth]] is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully [[Lobbying|lob ...

...rinceton University]] for the rest of his career. He died of complications from [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]] at age 82. * When I was on the train from [[Liverpool]] to [[Cambridge]] to become a student, it occurred to me that ...

* Machines which do not receive their motion from heat... can be studied even to their smallest details by the mechanical the ...the shop floor. Originally the domain of engineers, thermodynamics emerged from their engagement with machines. Only later did this study of heat and its t ...

...opinion]] [[truths]] of this kind should be drawn from notions rather than from notations. * The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is k ...

...obst Bürgi]]... from Switzerland, and [[Johannes Kepler|Johann Kepler]]... from Germany.<!--pp. 302-303, 1991--> ...s invented the sine and the tangent. The Greeks had measured an angle only from the [[w:Chord (geometry)|chord]] of the arc it subtended: the sine was half ...

...tractive number, the result is their subtractive difference; if the number from which one subtracts is smaller than the number subtracted, the result is th ...J. Katz, Karen Hunger Parshall, ''Taming the Unknown: A History of Algebra from Antiquity to the Early Twentieth Century'' (2014) p. 160. ...

...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]] ]] ...

...tion from {{cite book|last=Saccheri|first=Gerolamo|title=Euclid Vindicated from Every Blemish: Edited and Annotated by Vincenzo De Risi. Translated by G.B. ...Nikolai Lobachevsky|Lobatchewski]] and [[w:János Bolyai|Bolyai]]. ...<br />From the difference in geometric premises important variations followed. Thus, w ...