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Leonhard Euler (/ ˈ ɔɪ l ər / OY-lər; [b] German: [ˈleːɔnhaʁt ˈʔɔʏlɐ] ⓘ, Swiss Standard German: [ˈleɔnhard ˈɔʏlər]; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, and engineer.
Research concerning the relationship between the thermodynamic quantity entropy and both the origin and evolution of life began around the turn of the 20th century. In 1910 American historian Henry Adams printed and distributed to university libraries and history professors the small volume A Letter to American Teachers of History proposing a theory of history based on the second law of ...
Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS FBA (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher.He created the philosophical school known as process philosophy, [2] which has been applied in a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology.
[13] [14] Investigating optics – specifically light refraction – Hooke inferred a wave theory of light. [15] His is the first-recorded hypothesis of the cause of the expansion of matter by heat, [16] of air's composition by small particles in constant motion that thus generate its pressure, [17] and of heat as energy. [18]
James Clerk Maxwell FRS FRSE (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician [1] who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon.
Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who made critical contributions to the space program at NASA, died Feb. 24 at the age of 101.Johnson became a household name thanks to the ...
Old elephants near death do not leave their herd to go to an "elephants' graveyard" to die. [29] The color of a red cape does not enrage a bull. Bulls are not enraged by the color red, used in capes by professional bullfighters. Cattle are dichromats, so red does not stand out as a bright color. It is not the color of the cape, but the ...
The Book of My Life – Girolamo Cardano [15] A Mathematician's Apology - G.H. Hardy [16] A Mathematician's Miscellany (republished as Littlewood's miscellany) - J. E. Littlewood [17] I Am a Mathematician - Norbert Wiener [18] I Want to be a Mathematician - Paul R. Halmos; Adventures of a Mathematician - Stanislaw Ulam [19] Enigmas of Chance ...