(Encyclopedia) Sylvester II, c.945–1003, pope (999–1003), a Frenchman (b. Auvergne) named Gerbert; successor of Gregory V. In his youth he studied at Muslim schools in Spain and became learned in…
(Encyclopedia) Wiener, Norbert, 1894–1964, American mathematician, educator, and founder of the field of cybernetics, b. Columbia, Mo., grad. Tufts College, 1909, Ph.D. Harvard, 1913. In 1920 he…
(Encyclopedia) Cayley, ArthurCayley, Arthurkāˈlē [key], 1821–95, English mathematician. He was admitted to the bar in 1849. In 1863 he was appointed first Sadlerian professor of mathematics at…
(Encyclopedia) symbolic logic or mathematical logic, formalized system of deductive logic, employing abstract symbols for the various aspects of natural language. Symbolic logic draws on the concepts…
A million-dollar math problem
by Borgna Brunner Henri Poincaré posed his famously bedeviling math problem more than a century ago. The Clay Institute's Millennium Problems…
How Many Dimensions Are There?
Theories of the Universe It's All Held Together with Strings A Brief History of String Theory The Important Part The Second Requirement, Extra Dimensions How…
(Encyclopedia) Georgia, University of, at Athens, Ga.; land-grant and state-supported; coeducational; chartered 1785 as the first state-supported university in the United States, opened 1801. The…
(Encyclopedia) Brock University, at St. Catharines, Ont., Canada; coeducational; founded 1964. It has faculties of humanities, social science, science and mathematics, education, business, and…
(Encyclopedia) Waterloo, University of, at Waterloo, Ont., Canada; nondenominational; founded 1957. It has faculties of arts, science, engineering, environmental studies, applied health sciences,…
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