Search results for "Exponent" - New World Encyclopedia
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- movement was launched with H.D. as its prime exponent. Although the early models for the imagist group were Japanese, H.D. derived her way of ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 20:24, 24 December 2017
- Scott Joplin (January 1868 - April 1, 1917) was an African-American composer and instrumentalist who became the leading exponent of ragtime music ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- A floating point value x is represented by a mantissa m and exponent n to form x = m2^n.\, Therefore \ln(x) = \ln(m) + n\ln(2).\, Thus, instead ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- Anton Bruckner can be said to have been an exponent of the Romantic ethos in relation to the concept of creating music based on extra-musical connotations ...22 KB (3,442 words) - 06:48, 31 July 2023
- Schuman. Michael Tilson Thomas is an enthusiastic exponent of Ives' symphonies as is musicologist Jan Swafford. Ives' work is regularly programmed ...21 KB (3,211 words) - 19:13, 4 December 2023
- icon for Indian youth, Nehru was also an exponent of socialism as a means ... or complete non-violence. A forceful exponent of Indian self-reliance ...41 KB (6,185 words) - 23:02, 3 May 2023
- first safe prime, and the third Mersenne prime exponent. Five is the first Wilson prime and the third factorial prime, also an alternating factorial ...21 KB (2,981 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- to Aristotle, the most prominent exponent of eudaimonia in the Western philosophical tradition, eudaimonia is the proper goal of human life. ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- of shifting the decimal point or changing an exponent; for example, the speed of light may be expressed as 299 792.458 km/s or 2.99792458×108 m/s. ...26 KB (4,128 words) - 16:28, 9 November 2022
- all ages and social classes. Indeed, no less an exponent than Socrates is said to have recognized the god in his last words: "Crito, we owe a cock ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 03:52, 18 August 2023
- and is usuallly held to have had its greatest exponent in John L. Austin and his work at Oxford, especially after WWII until his untimely death at ...27 KB (4,040 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- over the years, becoming the foremost exponent of the Jersey Shore sound. Springsteen's prolific songwriting ability brought his skill to ...23 KB (3,510 words) - 04:41, 22 November 2023
- press the equals button one time less than the exponent you wish to get. For example, 64 is [6][X][=][=][=]. To get the reciprocal, enter the number ...24 KB (3,458 words) - 18:22, 25 November 2023
- power in Xingyiquan. The goal of the xingyiquan exponent is to reach the opponent quickly and drive powerfully through them in a single burst. This ...24 KB (3,729 words) - 16:11, 11 November 2022
- could scarcely be described as an adherent or exponent of such a school or, indeed, of any critical school at all (any more than Johnson could be) ...25 KB (3,944 words) - 17:20, 4 October 2020
- An exponent of a Polish version of Auguste Comte's Positivist philosophy, Prus (although he was a talented writer at first best known for ...24 KB (3,556 words) - 07:13, 17 November 2023
- of the twentieth century. A leading exponent of the Honky Tonk style, he had numerous hit records, and his charismatic performances won him national ...23 KB (3,620 words) - 03:08, 28 January 2022
- In Russia, the principal exponent of Romanticism is Alexander Pushkin. Mikhail Lermontov attempted to analyze and bring to light the deepest ...25 KB (3,676 words) - 17:16, 20 May 2024
- present-day UK philosophers the best-known exponent of absolute idealism is probably Timothy L.S. Sprigge. British idealism's influence in ...29 KB (4,323 words) - 17:06, 17 December 2022
- to help lead the Civil War. Sumner was a leading exponent of abolishing slavery to weaken the Confederacy. Although he kept on good terms with Abraham ...24 KB (3,821 words) - 00:34, 5 December 2023
- by H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891), the most important exponent of Theosophy in modern times. Theosophical theory postulates that creation is a geometrical ...25 KB (3,985 words) - 23:13, 3 May 2023
- Expert Aaron Beck Going Strong at 96] Jewish Exponent (October 18, 2017). Retrieved February 6, 2024. Kevin A. Fall, Janice Miner Holden, and ...32 KB (4,326 words) - 17:50, 15 February 2024
- Robert Dale Owen, the eldest (1801-1877), was for long an able exponent in his adopted country of his father's doctrines. In 1836-1839 and ...26 KB (4,155 words) - 01:46, 16 December 2022
- headed by the Karmapa Lama. Its most famous exponent was Milarepa, an eleventh century mystic who meditated for many years in mountain caves before ...27 KB (3,993 words) - 23:24, 30 April 2023
- Colbert is cited as a leading female exponent of screwball comedy, along with such actresses as Carole Lombard, Myrna Loy, Rosalind Russell, ...28 KB (4,036 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- " Boulainvilliers, for example, was an exponent of nobility rights. He claimed that the French nobility were the racial descendants of the Franks ...30 KB (4,545 words) - 04:16, 24 November 2022
- of limelight; Gurney its first exponent. * According to A History of The Growth of The Steam-Engine by Robert H Thurston, Gurney was a proponent ...27 KB (4,255 words) - 22:32, 29 January 2023
- became more hostile, Johannes Stark, prominent exponent of Deutsche Physik ("German Physics," also called "Aryan Physics") attacked ...30 KB (4,449 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- Idagunji Mahaganapathi Yakshagana Mandali, is an exponent of this style of Yakshagana. He was the first Yakshagana artist to receive the Rashtrapati Award. ...30 KB (4,418 words) - 10:04, 22 May 2023
- A number is an abstract mathematical object represented by a symbol that is used in counting and measuring. A symbol that represents a number ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- settle permanently in Barisal. He was an early exponent of the reformist Brahmo Samaj movement in Barisal, and was highly regarded in the town for his ...31 KB (4,652 words) - 01:09, 9 February 2023
- cohesive tonal logic. Haydn was also the principal exponent of the double variation form, known as variations on two alternating themes, which are often ...31 KB (4,893 words) - 21:50, 6 May 2024
- not an advocate of black supremacy, but was an exponent of black race uplift and improvement. Driven by his vision of a permanent, black homeland in ...30 KB (4,654 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- David Friedrich, 1774–1840, was the exception and the greatest exponent of the Romantic landscape in northern Europe. Mountain Landscape with ...29 KB (4,569 words) - 20:24, 12 October 2021
- Under these conditions, probably the best-known exponent of land-alone tax was the nineteenth-century American economist, Henry George. ...37 KB (5,745 words) - 00:22, 2 December 2022
- ignored, I send some reminiscences that will be an exponent of the extraordinary merit of the Choctaw Indian on the American Continent. My connection ...38 KB (5,802 words) - 17:09, 10 December 2023
- serious film scholars and cineastes today as an exponent of Modernism, devoted to formal complexity. It must not be overlooked that Eisenstein ...36 KB (5,636 words) - 09:58, 26 January 2023
- Beccaria, who preceded Jeremy Bentham as an exponent of utilitarianism, aimed to demonstrate not only the injustice, but even the futility from the point ...41 KB (6,212 words) - 21:02, 25 November 2023
- The most lyrical exponent of American Impressionism was John Henry Twatchman. A large painting in France, Arques-la-Bataille, 1885 (oil on canvas ...34 KB (5,216 words) - 16:33, 21 February 2022
- *Seven is the fourth Mersenne prime exponent *Seven is the third Lucas prime *Seven is the fourth self number *Seven is the only number less than ...35 KB (5,128 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- Stock Market Crash of 1929. Snowden was a rigid exponent of orthodox finance and would not permit any deficit spending to stimulate the economy, despite ...40 KB (6,096 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- thumb|200px|Frederick Douglass was a leading exponent of abolitionism.]] In 1863, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation ...38 KB (5,325 words) - 06:03, 16 June 2023
- genre of Grand opera, a form whose most famous exponent was another foreigner, Giacomo Meyerbeer. Meyerbeer's works, such as Les Huguenots emphasised ...38 KB (5,681 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- Kelly was a major exponent of twentieth century filmed dance, known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likable ...40 KB (6,390 words) - 06:42, 18 April 2024
- in Sudarshan Gadyawali (1909). As an exponent of Advaita philosophy, he interpreted all aspects of human life and civilization in the context ...44 KB (6,296 words) - 21:42, 30 October 2023
- the late 1970s, Pierre Boulez, perhaps the leading exponent of Post World War II modernism, declared that any attempt to make the legacies of past seem ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 10:52, 19 December 2023
- Gustav Mahler may have been the leading exponent of the 'romantic' ethos in relation to the principle of the Unity of Universality ...43 KB (6,581 words) - 23:49, 26 July 2023
- his sister-in-law Jeanne Loriod was a leading exponent. Messiaen was fascinated by birdsong; he considered birds to be the greatest musicians ...42 KB (6,502 words) - 00:25, 18 November 2022
- a staple of the Baroque era, finding its strongest exponent in the works of the Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi. Harpsichord music achieved new heights ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- because he was the most successful exponent of such a policy. In domestic affairs his influence was small and almost entirely indirect. He himself ...49 KB (8,091 words) - 14:59, 10 October 2020
