Search results for "Exponent" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972) was an American gospel singer, the leading exponent of the music in her generation, and ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 05:25, 5 November 2022
- based upon the congruence between the exponent's presentation of bhakti (devotion) and the description of the same path (bhakti marga) ...23 KB (3,622 words) - 17:22, 5 April 2023
- Rāmānuja depicts Yādavaprakāśa as an exponent of Svābhāvika Bhedābhedavāda (Natural Difference and Non-Difference), the view that, in ...15 KB (2,341 words) - 03:36, 1 October 2023
- Carlos Santana. Indeed, there is hardly an exponent of the blues alive today that does not acknowledge a debt to Hooker. ==Notes== ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 20:45, 1 May 2024
- * Hurst exponent * q-dimension; especially: ** Information dimension (corresponding to q=1) ** Correlation dimension (corresponding to q=2) ...16 KB (2,438 words) - 15:22, 29 January 2024
- to the pastoral. He was also an influential exponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms. Separating from his wife and five children and ...13 KB (1,899 words) - 17:04, 21 November 2022
- rose to fame in the 1970s, but became a renowned exponent of Colombian salsa in the 1980s. Arroyo worked for many years with the Colombian arranger Fruko ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 01:54, 23 December 2022
- the twelfth century, denouncing its great exponent, Peter Abelard, forcing ... Not a brilliant intellect, but a powerful exponent of humble faith, for Bernard ...26 KB (4,066 words) - 16:03, 29 September 2023
- it is tempting to see him as a typical exponent of Neo-classicism. In fact, Neo-Renaissance or Neo-Baroque would probably more accurately describe ...13 KB (1,835 words) - 05:57, 18 November 2022
- with a solidus (/), or given as a negative exponent. For example, the "meter per second" can be written "m/s," "m s-1," ...15 KB (2,449 words) - 18:28, 22 December 2022
- * Asanga (c. 300), exponent of the Yogacara * Bhartrihari (c 450–510 C.E.), early figure in Indic linguistic theory * Bodhidharma (c. 440–528 ...16 KB (2,127 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- It differs from jujutsu in that the exponent will try to block an attack in order to quickly attain a clinch. From the clinch, a takedown is ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 21:12, 28 December 2023
- In it he says, “If this great exponent of Black American culture inspired me, a white European, it is simply because I think his music is of ...14 KB (2,220 words) - 16:53, 22 November 2023
- His interactionist stance allowed Montagu to be an effective exponent of the often polarized realms of cultural and physical anthropology. He ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 04:42, 18 August 2023
- Austin himself). Austin was likely the leading exponent of that form of analytic philosophy, a movement that can be traced at least partly back to G ...17 KB (2,638 words) - 06:11, 3 August 2022
- this attitude, he was a courageous exponent of equal treatment for Jews in the political arena. He was also devoted to education, both religious ...16 KB (2,521 words) - 18:59, 7 March 2024
- books against Eunomius of Cyzicus, the chief exponent of Anomoian Arianism. The first three books of the Refutation are his work; the fourth and fifth ...16 KB (2,517 words) - 03:31, 1 January 2022
- #039;s best known theorist and exponent until his death in 1990. Skinner developed a distinct kind of behaviorist philosophy, which came to be ...19 KB (2,675 words) - 10:26, 26 September 2023
- Nonetheless, Cocteau was an important exponent of Surrealism, and he had great influence on the work of others, including the group of composer ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 17:01, 4 July 2022
- open the way to the one that currently exists, an exponent in the German neo-baroque architecture style. The theater is adorned with a stone and marble ...17 KB (2,656 words) - 00:04, 18 November 2022
- first millennium B.C.E., the most prominent exponent of the Advaita Vedanta is considered by tradition to be the eighth century scholar Adi Shankara ...19 KB (2,943 words) - 06:21, 15 June 2023
- uprooted by the French Revolution, became a great exponent of the conservative tradition. He was one of the most influential spokesmen for a counter-revolutionary ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 05:02, 7 May 2024
- who went in new directions, first as the leading exponent of cool jazz and later into experimental fusion jazz, Gillespie essentially remained true to ...17 KB (2,671 words) - 09:19, 15 January 2023
- is also a renowned Koodiyattam performer, and an exponent of traditional devotional Koodiyattams, such as Anguliyanka, Mattavilasa Prahasana, Mantranka ...19 KB (2,773 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- Indians At East Chester New York 1643 Courageous exponent of civil liberty and religious toleration." The site of Anne's house and the ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- and he is generally considered to be its leading exponent. His best lǜshi use the parallelisms required by the form to add expressive content rather ...18 KB (2,990 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2024
- Smith was an articulate exponent of good government and efficiency as was Hoover. But as Smith became known for saying in his campaign, "Let ...19 KB (2,817 words) - 07:17, 20 July 2023
- it is expected to be the largest exponent of the prestigious Guggenheim Museums and will be "a catalyst for scholarship in a variety of ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- to me. I am not [a] politician but [an] exponent of German music which belongs to all humanity regardless of politics. I propose to postpone ...21 KB (3,095 words) - 11:58, 5 May 2023
- John Hick, would emerge as the most well known exponent of a pluralist theology of religions. Between 1969 and 1972, he was also Pro-Vice Chancellor ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- He is viewed by some art historians as a prime exponent of Neoclassicism, while others view him as a precursor of Symbolism and Surrealism. He ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 13:41, 8 February 2022
- 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
