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  2. Charles Babbage - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 February 2025. English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871) "Babbage" redirects here. For other uses, see Babbage (disambiguation). Charles Babbage KH FRS Babbage in 1860 Born (1791-12-26) 26 December 1791 London, England Died 18 October 1871 (1871-10-18) (aged 79) Marylebone, London ...

  3. String girdling Earth - Wikipedia

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    This observation means that an athletics track has the same offset between starting lines on each lane, equal to 2 π times the width of the lane, whether the circumference of the inside lane is the standard 400 m (1,300 ft) or the size of a galaxy.

  4. List of A Different World characters - Wikipedia

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    Dwayne Wayne is a mathematics major at Hillman. A native of Brooklyn, he achieved a perfect score on the math portion of the SAT.He is best recognized by his flip up sunglasses and is known for making unsuccessful advances on numerous women throughout his freshman year.

  5. List of mathematical constants - Wikipedia

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    A mathematical constant is a key number whose value is fixed by an unambiguous definition, often referred to by a symbol (e.g., an alphabet letter), or by mathematicians' names to facilitate using it across multiple mathematical problems. [1]

  6. List of African-American mathematicians - Wikipedia

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    The bestselling book and film, Hidden Figures, celebrated the role of African-American women mathematicians in the space race, and the barriers they had to overcome to study and pursue a career in mathematics and related fields. [1]

  7. Timeline of mathematics - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of pure and applied mathematics history.It is divided here into three stages, corresponding to stages in the development of mathematical notation: a "rhetorical" stage in which calculations are described purely by words, a "syncopated" stage in which quantities and common algebraic operations are beginning to be represented by symbolic abbreviations, and finally a "symbolic ...

  8. Glossary of mathematical symbols - Wikipedia

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    A mathematical symbol is a figure or a combination of figures that is used to represent a mathematical object, an action on mathematical objects, a relation between mathematical objects, or for structuring the other symbols that occur in a formula.

  9. Distribution (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The following notation will be used throughout this article: is a fixed positive integer and is a fixed non-empty open subset of Euclidean space. = {,,, …} denotes the natural numbers.