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  • or structure between human beings and the universe. The concept of microcosm/macrocosm ... used as synonym of the word 'universe' (considered in its ...
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  • intangible and material levels of the universe. In his biography of ... essential concepts or ideals, and the mathematical numbers which are used ...
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  • single, ultimate, yet-to-be-discovered mathematical principle. He considered ... reliable source of knowledge about the universe. He was co-editor with Denis ...
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  • from which all other theorems and mathematical knowledge are derived ... such as social, natural, logical, mathematical, and so on. The differences ...
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  • human history. Although his model of the universe was erroneous, he based ... He mathematike syntaxis ("The Mathematical Collection"), which ...
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  • a natural language such as English with mathematical symbols, that is a necessary ... and a conclusion. The proof of a mathematical theorem is a logical argument ...
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  • the orders of existence in both the universe and human reason. ... gave life and order to all beings in the universe. In their view, logos existed ...
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  • study of nature and the physical universe, and is considered the counterpart ... Naturalis Principia Mathematica (The Mathematical Principles of Natural ...
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  • The following mathematical formulae characterize the periapsis and ... * Open University. 1990. Planetary Orbits. Mathematical Models and ...
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  • is a theory about the nature of the universe, closely linked with the ... We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of the ...
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  • unchanged over time. By contrast, a mathematical constant, which also has ... different from their current values, the universe would be so radically different ...
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  • They show all of the possible mathematical or logical relationships ... that is not in the union, but is in the Universe (of living creatures, or ...
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  • cycles of creation and dissolution of the universe; or second, it can refer ... and 100 such years the life cycle of the universe. Fifty years of Brahma are ...
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  • However, the interpretation of mathematical knowledge has changed ... to strip the meaning away from the mathematical assertions (axioms, postulates ...
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  • that deals with the physics of the universe. It involves studies of ... and evolution of stars, galaxies, and the universe as a whole. It has led to ...
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  • :* What are the sources of mathematical subject matter? :* What does it mean to refer to a mathematical object? ...
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  • He helped found both modern mathematical logic and analytic philosophy ... imply that there is but one object in the universe of discourse, and hence ...
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  • black holes and the expansion of the universe, as well as more elementary ... of interaction which was described by a mathematical theory. In ancient times ...
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  • by a new mechanistic picture of the universe where mathematically-characterizable ... Whereas Descartes believed that the universe contained many extended ...
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  • by instincts, man has created his own universe of symbolic meaning that ... on Descartes' analysis of mathematical and natural scientific ...
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  • the use of material objects and mathematical symbols in religious rites ... and become "a priest of the entire universe." He defended paganism ...
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  • quot; (such as an 'alternate universe' or 'plane of ... has 10 or 11 dimensions, but that the universe, when measured along these ...
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  • context for our existence in an evolving universe of untold numbers of galaxies ... * Astrophysics: the study of physics of the universe, including the ...
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  • honor, which are used in contemporary mathematical physics. He was the first ... scholarship. He published his first mathematical paper just two months ...
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  • ===Early mathematical works=== In 1651, Huygens published his first ... of how far it moved side to side. The mathematical and practical details ...
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  • According to Pythagoras, “number” or mathematical principle was ... The mathematical order in beings is perceivable not by the physical ...
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  • France, he obtained his PhD degree in Mathematical Sciences at the University ... pdf Interview of B. B. Mandelbrot] Mathematical People, Birkhaüser, 1984 ...
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  • a Pythagorean mystic, he thought of the universe as founded on mathematical ... #039;s inn with his phenomenal mathematical faculty. Introduced to ...
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  • explanations about the structure of the universe that open the question of ... plan for the appearance of humans in the universe, and, if so, was there or ...
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  • years, was awarded the classical and mathematical exhibitions in his first ... obtained a first class in classical and mathematical moderations, a rare achievement ...
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  • otherwise wouldn't (for instance, mathematical facts), and every philosopher ... as blueprints for the craftsman of the universe. The distinctiveness ...
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  • The spatial extent of the universe is thought to have been created ... speed up in time. The proper time of the universe is defined to be that of ...
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  • quantum field theory provides the mathematical framework for the Standard ... observed in the laboratory and in the universe exist. The force-mediating ...
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  • truths by suggesting that God created the universe in accordance with certain ... is credited with contributing to the mathematical foundation of crystallography. ...
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  • the velocity of everything else in the universe can be measured relative ... light) is a consequence of modeling the universe as a particular four dimensional ...
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  • by his imaginative solutions to mathematical problems. He contributed ... analysis of the potential, a useful mathematical concept of broad applicability ...
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  • with creativity and freedom, and the universe is a macrocosm. Diverse ... which made the earth the center of the universe. In his view of the universe ...
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  • magnetism that bears his name, and by a mathematical expression (Gauss's ... answer within seconds by a flash of mathematical insight, to the astonishment ...
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  • on mathematics and physics in the Mathematical Monthly. Soon, however ... In 1870-1871, he taught psychology, and in 1874-1875, mathematical ...
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  • that his true calling lay in the mathematical sciences and, after completing ... on “Wave Mechanics” into a single mathematical formalism that associates ...
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  • are indispensable in all branches of mathematical logic. The table of logic ... some of these definitions may use mathematical models of probability. ...
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  • the Grundgesetze, Frege wrote little on mathematical logic and the philosophy ... they are the elements of the von Neumann universe, V, built up from the empty ...
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  • further divides the sublime into the mathematical and the dynamic, where ... *Fullest Feeling of Sublime--Immensity of Universe's extent or ...
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  • is the “system.” Everything in the universe except the system is known ... During the years 1873-76, the American mathematical physicist Josiah Willard ...
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  • percent of matter in the entire visible universe is plasma. ... the ordinary (or baryonic) matter in the universe, however, is found in the ...
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  • understanding the human intellect and the universe which would provide an explanation ... Like the early Stoics, Posidonius regarded the universe as a single ...
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  • Kumbakonam] Notices of the American Mathematical Society 53(6) (2006): ... By age 11, he had exhausted the mathematical knowledge of two college ...
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  • beings, values and norms, principles, mathematical objects, quality, time ... as manifested panentheistically in the universe. The Absolute Spirit manifests ...
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  • used by the Creator in ordering the physical universe. ==Biography== ... binomial theorem and began to develop a mathematical theory that would later ...
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  • theorems to those not well trained in mathematical logic. ... ... [as] an irreducible feature of the universe." ...
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  • The Big Bang is the cosmological model of the universe whose primary ... Theoretical support for the Big Bang comes from mathematical models ...
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  • and still used textbooks in logic, mathematical logic, and set theory ... paradigm by drawing parallels between mathematical epistemology and general ...
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  • on topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, metamathematics ... brilliance. Tarski first revealed his mathematical abilities while at Warsaw ...
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  • can be intrinsically curved; the full mathematical description is described ... possible for curved space. See also shape of the universe. ...
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  • fractions can be found in the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus dating from Ancient ... *Dunham, William. The mathematical universe. Wiley, 1994. ISBN 0471536563 ...
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  • to his demonstrative-deductive, mathematical method. This approach ... was the application of 'mathematical methods' to practical ...
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  • in all conditions found in the current universe—even in supernovae—there ... play no apparent role in the current universe, which prompted the famous ...
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  • :This article is about distance in the mathematical or physical sense. ... is useful. Some methods rely on a mathematical approach known as triangulation ...
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  • the movement of all matter in the universe under the four fundamental ... known internal structure, treated as mathematical points in classical mechanics ...
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  • which denies God and attributes the universe entirely to material forces ... faculties such as the analytical, the mathematical, and the linguistic. Harris ...
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  • explosions), statistics and many other mathematical fields as one of history ... two corresponding operators. This new mathematical formulation included as ...
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  • the introduction into Great Britain of mathematical methods and notation developed ... upon him the Copley Medal for his mathematical contributions to their ...
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  • source for the study of Oresme's mathematical ideas. In a quality, or ... . He developed the most complete mathematical description of musical ...
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  • phenomena, from black holes to the early universe, by analyzing the gravitational ... to higher dimensional spaces in a mathematical formalism introduced by ...
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  • of Heaven, Earth, and everything in the universe. Since the word Deus does ... observations topographical, physical, mathematical, mechanical, natural, ...
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  • soon as possible your theories about the Universe, together with the tables ... Earth as a stationary center of the universe. Stars were embedded in ...
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  • devices that could mechanically perform mathematical computations by following ... which could perform any conceivable mathematical function if it were representable ...
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  • England with an important collection of mathematical and astronomical instruments ... He also published a "Mathematical Preface" to Henry Billingsley ...
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  • is the theory that all the objects in the universe are composed of very small ... " may be discrete in the mathematical sense. (Such as in the ...
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  • that on an elementary level, the physical universe does not exist in a deterministic ... God would choose to play dice with the universe." Bohr, who was one ...
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  • matter and dark energy, which exist in mathematical equations but are scientifically ... active intellect in humans and to a God in the universe. ...
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  • something-to-our-understanding-of-the-universe/ Stephen Hawking: “I’m ... theories of the creation of the universe: the Big Bang and Steady ...
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  • Wigner began to develop an interest in mathematical problems. From 1915 until ... particularly with its ideas of the universe as an all pervading consciousness ...
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  • relations of ideas and matters of fact. Mathematical and logical propositions ... [Mill] claimed that mathematical truths were merely very highly confirmed ...
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  • == Mathematical legacy == Descartes' theory provided the basis ... of momentum. He outlined his views on the universe in his Principles of Philosophy. ...
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  • outside of the causal chain of beings in the universe? The Fourth Antinomy ... forms of an antinomy (Kant called "mathematical antinomy") are both ...
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  • that they all occur with the same mathematical, approximately exponential ... According to the widely accepted Big Bang theory, the universe began ...
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  • wrote and lectured on the nature of the Universe, the role of human beings ... system, and mankind's role in the universe began while he watched bubbles ...
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  • Royce to undertake a serious study of mathematical logic and to reconsider ... of finite individuals in an infinite universe. Until 1901, his work was ...
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  • 26, 1824 – December 17, 1907) was a mathematical physicist, engineer, and ... the curriculum, introducing the new mathematical works of Jean Baptiste ...
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  • in 1884 as third wrangler in the mathematical tripos. ===University ... * William Henry Bragg, The Universe of Light (1933) ==References== ...
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  • Isaac Newton is recognized as having given the mathematical definition ... Although there are apparently many types of forces in the universe ...
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  • any entity of the given classification universe belongs unequivocally to ... great importance in the development of mathematical ideas in the medieval ...
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  • for the effects of nuclear war when a mathematical climate model suggested ... and a perspective of our place in the universe. The series was first broadcast ...
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  • is, he defines nature as not just the clockwork universe going about its business according to mathematical laws of physics, but describes nature as ...
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  • for the Ptolemaic geocentric model of the universe, in which everything circled ... rigorous experiments and insisting on a mathematical description of the laws ...
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  • of Physical and Experimental Mechanics, Mathematical Physics and Theory of ... In 1887, Poincaré won the Oscar II, King of Sweden's mathematical ...
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  • uncaused cause (God) to the existing universe. The teleological argument ... of God and the geometric demonstration. Mathematical demonstrations can lead ...
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  • and was particularly fond of the mathematical lectures given there, ... * Bodanis, David. 2005. Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched ...
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  • not defined by a rigid template, or a mathematical formula, but rather it ... impact of a policy measure. They are also less mathematical. ...
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  • mutual consistency of things in the physical universe. This fitness God has given to actions, as he has given laws to Nature; and the fitness is as ...
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  • is actually conscious or part of some universe-wide evolution, are currently ... offered the Daisyworld model as mathematical evidence to refute most ...
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  • theory. But outside of the more mathematical uses of the term, usage ... and unavoidable property of the universe. In quantum mechanics, the ...
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  • Various mathematical constructs have been found to have properties ... authors, who also gave the first known mathematical description of them. The ...
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  • rays. Hermann von Helmholtz formulated mathematical equations for X-rays. ... of the very violent processes in the universe which produce X-rays. Unlike ...
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  • of this concept--he considered it a mathematical construct. In 1905, Albert ... fashionable, since it was regarded as a mathematical spook." Thanks to ...
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  • view of human beings as the center of the universe, unlimited in their capacity ... such as linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic ...
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  • ::This article is about the physical universe. Natural|Natural World ... by humans. The term encompasses the universe of living organisms and ...
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  • Zhang was the first to make a mathematical grid reference. ... called The Spiritual Constitution of the Universe (靈憲, Ling Xian), Zhang ...
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  • spherical Earth is at the centre of the universe and the planets and stars ... C.E.) defined a geometrical model of the universe in his Almagest and extended ...
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