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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 ...

intangible and material levels of the universe. In his biography of ... essential concepts or ideals, and the mathematical numbers which are used ...

single, ultimate, yet-to-be-discovered mathematical principle. He considered ... reliable source of knowledge about the universe. He was co-editor with Denis ...

from which all other theorems and mathematical knowledge are derived ... such as social, natural, logical, mathematical, and so on. The differences ...

human history. Although his model of the universe was erroneous, he based ... He mathematike syntaxis ("The Mathematical Collection"), which ...

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 ...

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 ...

study of nature and the physical universe, and is considered the counterpart ... Naturalis Principia Mathematica (The Mathematical Principles of Natural ...

The following mathematical formulae characterize the periapsis and ... * Open University. 1990. Planetary Orbits. Mathematical Models and ...

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 ...

unchanged over time. By contrast, a mathematical constant, which also has ... different from their current values, the universe would be so radically different ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, the interpretation of mathematical knowledge has changed ... to strip the meaning away from the mathematical assertions (axioms, postulates ...

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 ...

:* What are the sources of mathematical subject matter? :* What does it mean to refer to a mathematical object? ...

He helped found both modern mathematical logic and analytic philosophy ... imply that there is but one object in the universe of discourse, and hence ...

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 ...

by a new mechanistic picture of the universe where mathematically-characterizable ... Whereas Descartes believed that the universe contained many extended ...

by instincts, man has created his own universe of symbolic meaning that ... on Descartes' analysis of mathematical and natural scientific ...

the use of material objects and mathematical symbols in religious rites ... and become "a priest of the entire universe." He defended paganism ...

quot; (such as an 'alternate universe' or 'plane of ... has 10 or 11 dimensions, but that the universe, when measured along these ...

context for our existence in an evolving universe of untold numbers of galaxies ... * Astrophysics: the study of physics of the universe, including the ...

honor, which are used in contemporary mathematical physics. He was the first ... scholarship. He published his first mathematical paper just two months ...

===Early mathematical works=== In 1651, Huygens published his first ... of how far it moved side to side. The mathematical and practical details ...

According to Pythagoras, “number” or mathematical principle was ... The mathematical order in beings is perceivable not by the physical ...

France, he obtained his PhD degree in Mathematical Sciences at the University ... pdf Interview of B. B. Mandelbrot] Mathematical People, Birkhaüser, 1984 ...

a Pythagorean mystic, he thought of the universe as founded on mathematical ... #039;s inn with his phenomenal mathematical faculty. Introduced to ...

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 ...

years, was awarded the classical and mathematical exhibitions in his first ... obtained a first class in classical and mathematical moderations, a rare achievement ...

otherwise wouldn't (for instance, mathematical facts), and every philosopher ... as blueprints for the craftsman of the universe. The distinctiveness ...

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 ...

quantum field theory provides the mathematical framework for the Standard ... observed in the laboratory and in the universe exist. The force-mediating ...

truths by suggesting that God created the universe in accordance with certain ... is credited with contributing to the mathematical foundation of crystallography. ...

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 ...

by his imaginative solutions to mathematical problems. He contributed ... analysis of the potential, a useful mathematical concept of broad applicability ...

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 ...

magnetism that bears his name, and by a mathematical expression (Gauss's ... answer within seconds by a flash of mathematical insight, to the astonishment ...

on mathematics and physics in the Mathematical Monthly. Soon, however ... In 1870-1871, he taught psychology, and in 1874-1875, mathematical ...

that his true calling lay in the mathematical sciences and, after completing ... on “Wave Mechanics” into a single mathematical formalism that associates ...

are indispensable in all branches of mathematical logic. The table of logic ... some of these definitions may use mathematical models of probability. ...

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 ...

further divides the sublime into the mathematical and the dynamic, where ... *Fullest Feeling of Sublime--Immensity of Universe's extent or ...

is the “system.” Everything in the universe except the system is known ... During the years 1873-76, the American mathematical physicist Josiah Willard ...

percent of matter in the entire visible universe is plasma. ... the ordinary (or baryonic) matter in the universe, however, is found in the ...

understanding the human intellect and the universe which would provide an explanation ... Like the early Stoics, Posidonius regarded the universe as a single ...

Kumbakonam] Notices of the American Mathematical Society 53(6) (2006): ... By age 11, he had exhausted the mathematical knowledge of two college ...

beings, values and norms, principles, mathematical objects, quality, time ... as manifested panentheistically in the universe. The Absolute Spirit manifests ...

used by the Creator in ordering the physical universe. ==Biography== ... binomial theorem and began to develop a mathematical theory that would later ...

theorems to those not well trained in mathematical logic. ... ... [as] an irreducible feature of the universe." ...

The Big Bang is the cosmological model of the universe whose primary ... Theoretical support for the Big Bang comes from mathematical models ...

and still used textbooks in logic, mathematical logic, and set theory ... paradigm by drawing parallels between mathematical epistemology and general ...

on topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, metamathematics ... brilliance. Tarski first revealed his mathematical abilities while at Warsaw ...

can be intrinsically curved; the full mathematical description is described ... possible for curved space. See also shape of the universe. ...

fractions can be found in the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus dating from Ancient ... *Dunham, William. The mathematical universe. Wiley, 1994. ISBN 0471536563 ...

to his demonstrative-deductive, mathematical method. This approach ... was the application of 'mathematical methods' to practical ...

in all conditions found in the current universe—even in supernovae—there ... play no apparent role in the current universe, which prompted the famous ...

:This article is about distance in the mathematical or physical sense. ... is useful. Some methods rely on a mathematical approach known as triangulation ...

the movement of all matter in the universe under the four fundamental ... known internal structure, treated as mathematical points in classical mechanics ...

which denies God and attributes the universe entirely to material forces ... faculties such as the analytical, the mathematical, and the linguistic. Harris ...

explosions), statistics and many other mathematical fields as one of history ... two corresponding operators. This new mathematical formulation included as ...

the introduction into Great Britain of mathematical methods and notation developed ... upon him the Copley Medal for his mathematical contributions to their ...

source for the study of Oresme's mathematical ideas. In a quality, or ... . He developed the most complete mathematical description of musical ...

phenomena, from black holes to the early universe, by analyzing the gravitational ... to higher dimensional spaces in a mathematical formalism introduced by ...

of Heaven, Earth, and everything in the universe. Since the word Deus does ... observations topographical, physical, mathematical, mechanical, natural, ...

soon as possible your theories about the Universe, together with the tables ... Earth as a stationary center of the universe. Stars were embedded in ...

devices that could mechanically perform mathematical computations by following ... which could perform any conceivable mathematical function if it were representable ...

England with an important collection of mathematical and astronomical instruments ... He also published a "Mathematical Preface" to Henry Billingsley ...

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 ...

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 ...

matter and dark energy, which exist in mathematical equations but are scientifically ... active intellect in humans and to a God in the universe. ...

something-to-our-understanding-of-the-universe/ Stephen Hawking: “I’m ... theories of the creation of the universe: the Big Bang and Steady ...

Wigner began to develop an interest in mathematical problems. From 1915 until ... particularly with its ideas of the universe as an all pervading consciousness ...

relations of ideas and matters of fact. Mathematical and logical propositions ... [Mill] claimed that mathematical truths were merely very highly confirmed ...

== Mathematical legacy == Descartes' theory provided the basis ... of momentum. He outlined his views on the universe in his Principles of Philosophy. ...

outside of the causal chain of beings in the universe? The Fourth Antinomy ... forms of an antinomy (Kant called "mathematical antinomy") are both ...

that they all occur with the same mathematical, approximately exponential ... According to the widely accepted Big Bang theory, the universe began ...

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 ...

Royce to undertake a serious study of mathematical logic and to reconsider ... of finite individuals in an infinite universe. Until 1901, his work was ...

26, 1824 – December 17, 1907) was a mathematical physicist, engineer, and ... the curriculum, introducing the new mathematical works of Jean Baptiste ...

in 1884 as third wrangler in the mathematical tripos. ===University ... * William Henry Bragg, The Universe of Light (1933) ==References== ...

Isaac Newton is recognized as having given the mathematical definition ... Although there are apparently many types of forces in the universe ...

any entity of the given classification universe belongs unequivocally to ... great importance in the development of mathematical ideas in the medieval ...

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 ...

is, he defines nature as not just the clockwork universe going about its business according to mathematical laws of physics, but describes nature as ...

for the Ptolemaic geocentric model of the universe, in which everything circled ... rigorous experiments and insisting on a mathematical description of the laws ...

of Physical and Experimental Mechanics, Mathematical Physics and Theory of ... In 1887, Poincaré won the Oscar II, King of Sweden's mathematical ...

uncaused cause (God) to the existing universe. The teleological argument ... of God and the geometric demonstration. Mathematical demonstrations can lead ...

and was particularly fond of the mathematical lectures given there, ... * Bodanis, David. 2005. Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched ...

not defined by a rigid template, or a mathematical formula, but rather it ... impact of a policy measure. They are also less mathematical. ...

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 ...

is actually conscious or part of some universe-wide evolution, are currently ... offered the Daisyworld model as mathematical evidence to refute most ...

theory. But outside of the more mathematical uses of the term, usage ... and unavoidable property of the universe. In quantum mechanics, the ...

Various mathematical constructs have been found to have properties ... authors, who also gave the first known mathematical description of them. The ...

rays. Hermann von Helmholtz formulated mathematical equations for X-rays. ... of the very violent processes in the universe which produce X-rays. Unlike ...

of this concept--he considered it a mathematical construct. In 1905, Albert ... fashionable, since it was regarded as a mathematical spook." Thanks to ...

view of human beings as the center of the universe, unlimited in their capacity ... such as linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic ...

::This article is about the physical universe. Natural|Natural World ... by humans. The term encompasses the universe of living organisms and ...

Zhang was the first to make a mathematical grid reference. ... called The Spiritual Constitution of the Universe (靈憲, Ling Xian), Zhang ...

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 ...

in Persian or Arabic, resembling the mathematical version of one and denotes ... Him who is eternal and contained in the whole Universe. ...

world and even God. In fact, the universe operates according to principles ... programming languages, and various mathematical formalisms are not necessarily ...

using masses of data to discover mathematical relationships and laws ... in the Making: The Evolution of the Universe (1906), and The Destinies ...

was carrying to Marcellus some of his mathematical instruments, such as sun ... Archimedes is probably also the first mathematical physicist on record ...

fathers before him, was also "king of the universe." ... great flood. He was also able to solve mathematical problems. ...

about many fundamental facts of the universe (such as whether there is ... must then exclude any probability in a mathematical possibility of an external ...

was published in the anthology Expanded Universe, and demonstrates both Heinlein ... book in which it is explained that the mathematical logic of Malthusianism ...

His masterpiece, originally entitled The Mathematical Collection, has come to the present under the title Almagest, as it was translated by Arab ...

of a unitary consciousness pervading the universe. In 1956, he returned ... International Institute for Mathematical Physics] was established ...

architecture, and sophisticated mathematical and astronomical systems ... gods represented nothing more than a mathematical explanation of what they ...

was determining the basic elements of the universe: Proposals included water ... mind could elucidate all the laws of the universe, based on simple observation ...

investigate the essential reality of the universe. Ortega proposed that philosophy ... hand, the average man has the most mathematical "ideas" on all ...

pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing ... was experimenting with and re-creating mathematical topics, such as the half ...

to describe the essential order of the universe, and the Pharaoh's ... in the form of the Moscow and Rhind Mathematical Papyri.Scott W. Williams ...

Its core was a transformation of mathematical astronomy, but it embraced ... Kuhn called “The Ancient Two-Sphere Universe,” “The Problem of the ...

and Anglican priest trained in both mathematical physics and theology: action will be within the grain of the universe and not against it. ...

the first planet discovered based on mathematical prediction rather than ... John Herschel started to champion the mathematical approach and persuaded ...

the continuous substance of which the universe was composed. In 1637, he ... Denis Poisson added to Fresnel's mathematical work to produce a convincing ...

its official astronomical concept of the universe. The Church argued that ... to work on establishing a sound mathematical astronomy. Two early tracts ...

motion from electronic motion in the mathematical treatment of molecules. ... returned to Harvard as a young maven of mathematical physics and a National ...

a Bach concerto might be related to a mathematical formula, and from there ... is, an absolutely precise mathematical language that could describe ...

However, its appeal, finding unexpected mathematical relationships in music ... set theory is the application of mathematical set theory to music, first ...

His earliest publication was a mathematical one, but the first which ... else than God himself in Berkeley's universe. In his effort to deny an ...

it is that our understanding of the universe seems to improve over time ... The simplest mathematical formulation that Popper gives of this concept ...

Langley. Peirce also did substantial mathematical calculations for Langley ... with—their more properly formal, mathematical, or objective aspects ...

, but Hipparchus was the first to apply mathematical rigor to the determination ... Neugebauer in his A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy (1975). Hipparchus ...

true sense. It is analogous to the mathematical procedure of taking the ... in the lives of individuals and the universe as a whole. His descriptive ...

have specific abilities on measures of mathematical and spatial ability. ... capability of becoming the Lord of the Universe. In the absence of Shakti ...

is particularly useful for mathematical analysis, because the ... and S.C. Wolff, 1991. Exploration of the Universe, 6th ed. Orlando, FL: Saunders ...

place; the earth at the center of the universe, then water, then air, then ... contemplation, much in the way in which mathematical understanding is achieved ...

dwarf can be older than the age of the Universe (approximately 13.7 billion ... 2008. The reason for this is that, as the Universe's age is finite, ...

you had to open relations with a universe entirely distinct from the ... wrote on a wide range of topics, from mathematical logic and semeiotics to ...

(circa 1500 B.C.E.) about the universe and Rta - universal order ... Principia Mathematica in 1910-1913, mathematical logic attracted the interest ...

with the ideal nature of the early universe and began employing an internal ... the top, bottom and sides, and that the universe was born from this enormous ...

who would continue his work on mathematical logic. Russell and Moore ... for his graduate-level course in mathematical logic. Many intellectuals ...

and designs that may (or may not) have mathematical significance; and most ... htm Crop Circles -Links to the Universe] * [http://www.ukcropcircles ...

3 is the only integer between the mathematical constants e and π. ... * Humans perceive the universe to have three spatial dimensions. ...

and to faith in divine involvement in the universe and human life. Alternately ... about the nature of being, of the universe, humanity, and the divine. ...

by Max Planck in 1900 as a purely mathematical manipulation, and which ... Albert Einstein - Chief Engineer of the Universe: One Hundred Authors for ...

century development of Boolean algebra mathematical models of logic began ... or aiming to explain the nature of the universe and humanity. In the opinion ...

the scientific, philosophical, and mathematical thinking of the Arabs ... Aristotelian and Ptolemaic views of the universe. Humanism stressed that ...

and nurturing of humankind and the universe. There are sacred scriptures ... * Logical-mathematical intelligence * Musical intelligence ...

fire is the fundamental element of the universe and who also said that “all ... = 4 and no other answer is possible). A mathematical example, then, helps us ...

by maintaining that after creating the universe, God does not interfere ... Eudoxus, precipitated a scientific and mathematical revolution. ...

as they have developed conceptual and mathematical models of stellar evolution. ... C. Adams and Gregory Laughlin, A Dying Universe: The Long Term Fate and ...

realms are vast and extend throughout the universe, they include the earth ... an indelible impress, a huge map of the universe outlined itself in one clear ...

html Black Holes]. 'Imagine the Universe!, NASA. Retrieved December ... or through an accretion disc. The mathematical point through which this ...

which was a record of mechanical and mathematical inventions and discoveries ... * 1758, (Earths in the Universe) Latin: De Telluribus in Mundo Nostro ...

7, 1979 through February 11, 1999. Mathematical calculations indicate ... * Freedman, Roger, and William J. Kaufmann. Universe W. H. Freeman ...

and skills, basic language and mathematical skills are used to lay ... credited with helping us understand the universe better, was not a model ...

...[a] magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and ... contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself ...

ability to recognize the demonstration (mathematical, empirical or other) of ... quot; is applied to the finite universe method then "men" ...

tools for understanding the physical universe, including the Euclidean ... "[The Jesuits] made efforts to translate western mathematical ...

the rebuilding of churches all over the universe, but especially in Italy ... growth. The motif is abstract and mathematical. It is in an adaptation ...

of his design philosophy, and his faith in the mathematical order of the universe was closely bound to the golden section and the Fibonacci series, ...