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...nsive histories in the English language for the development of the methods of calculus. === ''A Treatise on Isoperimetrical Problems, and the Calculus of Variations'' (1810) === ...

'''[[w:John Henry Poynting|John Henry Poynting]]''' [[w:Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (9 September 1852 – 30 March 1914) was an English p ...ding medium contains at least a part of the energy, and that it is capable of transferring it from point to point. ...

...l, Cambridgeshire. He was also professor of astronomy at the University of Cambridge. ...rejudice and make the University answer her character as the loving mother of good learning and science. ...

...ysicist]] with research interests in [[quantum gravity]] and the [[history of science]]. ** ''Absolute or Relative Motion'', Cambridge University Press, 1989, p. 226 ...

...[[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 ...

...ng]] may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call ''[[intuition]]'' and ''[[ingenuity]]''.] ...r|general-purpose computer]]. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and [[artificial intelligence]]. ...

...tably the invention of the {{w|cellular automaton}} with {{w|Conway's Game of Life}}. ...fessorship at [[Princeton University]] for the rest of his career. He died of complications from [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]] at age 82. ...

...quations, and if one has really a sound [[insight]], one is on a sure line of [[progress]].]] ...ge]], a professor of physics at [[w:Florida State University|Florida State University]], and a 1933 [[w:Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize in Physics]] recipient ...

...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]]'', ...

...ike the [[animals]]. Then something happened which unleashed the [[power]] of our [[imagination]]. We [[learned]] to [[talk]] and we learned to [[listen] ...al Cosmology|Centre for Theoretical Cosmology]] within the [[University of Cambridge]]. ...

...''G. J. Whitrow''', was a British mathematician, cosmologist and historian of science. ...not] a mysterious illusion of the intellect. ..It is an essential feature of the universe. ...

...ow by Mary Beale.jpg|thumb|[[Virtue]] is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one [[night]] when we are [[asleep]], or regard it not; but a del ...alculus}}; in particular, for the discovery of the {{w|fundamental theorem of calculus}}. ...

{{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 ...

...ever convinced you were of the [[justice]] of your cause and the [[truth]] of your convictions, you ought not to have made a public attack upon any man's ...e us, and the brethren who are with us; and our interest lies with so much of the future as we may hope will be appreciably affected by our [[good]] [[ac ...

...re be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. ** On being cured of his gastritis, as quoted in [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,91 ...

...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]]. ...

...Perga|Apollonius of Perga]], [[Aristarchus of Samos]], and [[Archimedes]] of Syracuse into English. === ''Diophantos of Alexandria: A Study in the History of Greek Algebra'' (1885) === ...

...irst university [[statistics]] department at [[w:University College London|University College London]] in 1911. ...hematical measure of heredity is the correlation of these organs for pairs of parent and offspring... The word organ here must be taken to include any ch ...

...1973 BBC television documentary series, ''[[w:The Ascent of Man|The Ascent of Man]]''. ...nity]] in the wild variety of [[nature]] — or more exactly, in the variety of our [[experience]].]] ...

...rration of light]] (1725–1728), and the [[w:astronomical nutation|nutation of the Earth's axis]] (1728–1748). ...ward in the Night; so that each was farthest North, when it came about Six of the Clock in the Evening, and farthest South when it came about Six in the ...