Search results for "Applied mathematics" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • on a variety of issues to which he applied economic analyses. Beyond ... and Economic Behavior (1944), which used mathematics to analyze competitive ...
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  • Part of the foundation of mathematics, Russell's paradox (also ... "Recent work in the philosophy of mathematics." He also mentioned ...
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  • as the Doppler effect has been applied to measure the relative ... he continued his studies while tutoring mathematics and physics. He graduated ...
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  • In mathematics, the concept of a curve tries to capture the intuitive ... in depth by Apollonius of Perga. They were applied in astronomy by Kepler. ...
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  • and by formalists and logicists in mathematics. ==Quine's Attack ... The formalists in mathematics—especially David Hilbert and Gottlob ...
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  • mathematician and economist. He applied mathematics to the field of economics ... the Sorbonne, obtaining a licentiate in mathematics in 1823. ...
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  • Apollonius was concerned with pure mathematics. When he was asked ... (later called the Cartesian equation) applied to oblique axes--for example ...
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  • the Middle Ages, and is most commonly applied to a diagram used to help ... In 1480, Petrus Tartaretus applied the Latin expression “pons asinorum” ...
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  • Charles University where he studied mathematics, philosophy, and physics ... to a More Well-founded Presentation of Mathematics), in which he opposes ...
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  • China is one of the countries which had the most advanced mathematics ... Zu was exposed to both astronomy and mathematics. When he was only a youth ...
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  • In mathematics, the parabola (from the Greek word παραβολή ... The parabola is an important concept in abstract mathematics, but ...
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  • ability at school, especially in mathematics. At the age of fifteen ... 1871 he was appointed professor of applied mathematics and mechanics at University ...
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  • is often known as engineering or applied mechanics, and it is used ... in this respect is the relentless use of mathematics in theories, as well as ...
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  • In the cyclotron, a high-frequency alternating voltage applied across ... circular path. In the cyclotron, energy is applied to the particles as they ...
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  • difference (measured in volts) is applied across separate points on the material. This flow of charge (measured in amperes) is what is meant ...
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  • mathematics is superior in beauty to applied mathematics precisely because ... " Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics 13. ...
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  • study of electricity), and his use of mathematics to quantify the relation ... bringing them to a high standard in mathematics, physics, chemistry and ...
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  • successful textbooks in the history of mathematics. Within it, the properties ... successful textbooks in the history of mathematics. Within it, the properties ...
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  • In mathematics, an average, mean, or central tendency of a data set ... an "average value" is known in mathematics as the arithmetic mean ...
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  • hidden) universal proposition which applied both to the source and the ... Structure mapping theory has been applied and has found considerable ...
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  • Frege's father was a schoolteacher whose specialty was mathematics ... and variables. Frege wanted to show that mathematics grew out of Aristotelian ...
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  • === Mathematics and Music === Boethius wrote four textbooks on mathematics and the theory of music ...
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  • a reputation for his contributions on mathematics and physics in the Mathematical ... of the senses.” At different times he applied the concept of verification ...
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  • y] = to measure") is a branch of mathematics that deals with triangles ... in both pure mathematics and in applied mathematics, where it is essential ...
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  • to the derivation of pressure as perpendicular applied force and the probabilistic likelihood of collisions with other particles through collision theory ...
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  • age 13, he had been introduced to higher mathematics, and it is said that his ... and in its place, he accepted a chair in mathematics at the Military School ...
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  • obtaining a solid grounding in mathematics. In 1850, he entered the ... Dedekind and Heinrich Martin Weber applied ideals to Riemann surfaces ...
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  • of the infinitesimal calculus. He also applied higher mathematics to the ... He left the school in 1804, and studied mathematics in preparation for the ...
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  • Pointing to this principle in applied logic, Aristotle’s law of ... In logic and mathematics, a proposition or statement \varphi is a ...
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  • [of which] is quite abstract, and can be applied to all kinds of automata ... the Foundation of Logic." Annals of Mathematics. 33, 346-366. ...
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  • his interests turned increasingly toward mathematics. He attended the École ... branches of pure mathematics, applied mathematics, mathematical physics ...
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  • technology, geography, astronomy and mathematics then being introduced ... ones. Xu Guang-qi was aware that Chinese mathematics had been in a period of ...
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  • He was again a traveling mathematics tutor until 1496, when he accepted ... In Milan, Pacioli collaborated with, lived with, and taught mathematics ...
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  • the scientific method and using mathematics to test the models, was ... spend three years studying economics and mathematics in France and England ...
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  • a logical connective, even though they are applied to a single statement, and ... which is actually a unary operator applied to one input, and ignoring ...
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  • of insight for the study of objects, mathematics and the rules of grammar ... manner of investigating, which should be applied in every subject-matter ...
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  • of his class, and was awarded prizes in mathematics and Latin. ... Gibbs' graphical formulae as it applied to water. He sent the finished ...
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  • member of the interwar Warsaw School of Mathematics and active in the United ... a world leader in logic, foundational mathematics, the philosophy of mathematics ...
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  • who helped Gauss procure books on mathematics, which they studied together ... major discovery in an important field of mathematics; construction problems ...
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  • basic theorems on the foundations of mathematics and their philosophical ... Gödel's technique can only be applied to consistent systems. It ...
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  • Swiss mathematician and physicist who applied his expertise to problems ... ===Applied mathematics=== Euler integrated Leibniz's differential ...
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  • regulating devices. Jakob von Uexküll applied the feedback mechanism via ... unifying character of this part of applied mathematics, which is found in ...
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  • works, the Vilna Gaon also wrote on mathematics and encouraged his pupil ... and non-Jewish, sought his insights into mathematics and astronomy. He returned ...
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  • or Interpretation, could, he asserted, be applied to all manner of interpretation ... on philosophy. Natural sciences and mathematics were often understood ...
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  • of astrology, astronomy, philosophy and mathematics into Latin, and introducing ... of the Arabians in discussions of mathematics and natural science. He ...
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  • he showed an aptitude for classics and mathematics. In 1869, he won Gilchrist ... #"applied economics" (the art of economics, or economic policy). ...
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  • His contributions not only made a great impact on mathematics, but ... , where he studied the sciences and mathematics, which included the ...
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  • of Berlin in 1844, where he studied Mathematics and Physics with, among ... Maxwell, who not only vastly improved and applied the statistical arguments ...
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  • stimulated the use of computers in mathematics in a whole new way. ... he was 11. There he was introduced to mathematics by another uncle, his ...
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  • Two has many properties in mathematics. D. Wells, The Penguin Dictionary ... *The Roman numeral II is usually applied to the second-discovered ...
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