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...mber theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics. He was the father of [[Charles Sanders Peirce]]. ...n Peirce theb3554.jpg|thumb|right|What is man? … a strange [[Unity|union]] of matter and [[mind]]! A machine for converting material into [[spiritual]] [ ...

...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]]. ...

...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)--> ...

...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]]'', ...

{{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 ...

...tributions to a number of fields, including [[mathematics]] ([[foundations of mathematics]], [[functional analysis]], [[ergodic theory]], [[geometry]], [ ...rithmetical]] methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of [[sin]].]] ...

...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 ...

...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 ...