(Encyclopedia) Rome, University of, at Rome, Italy; founded 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII. It has faculties of jurisprudence; political science; economics and commerce; statistics, demography, and…
Can you imagine what life was like before computers? Many of the world's most famous and important mathematicians came up with complicated theories and inventions well before the high-tech tool…
A prodigy is a person of exceptional power and ability. A child prodigy is a kid who is recognized for genius at an early age. Maria Gaetana Agnesi was the first of 21 children. She lived in Milan…
(Encyclopedia) Laurentian University, main campus at Sudbury, Ont., Canada; bilingual, coeducational; founded 1960. Among its faculties are those in astronomy, commerce, computer science, education,…
(Encyclopedia) Bishop's University, provincially supported, English-language university at Lennoxville, Que., Canada; founded 1843 by the Anglican bishop of Quebec as a liberal arts college. In 1853…
(Encyclopedia) theorem, in mathematics and logic, statement in words or symbols that can be established by means of deductive logic; it differs from an axiom in that a proof is required for its…
(Encyclopedia) Bourbaki, Nicolas, pseudonym under which a group of 20th cent. mathematicians has written a series of treatises on pure mathematics. The mathematicians have all been associated with…
Prediction by NumbersWeatherPrediction by NumbersRichardson's ExperimentPutting the Machines to Work The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries really began to put weather on the map. In 1600, Galileo…
(Encyclopedia) Darley, George, 1795–1846, English author and mathematician, b. Ireland. Included among his works are the pastoral drama Sylvia (1827), the poem Nepenthe (1835), a precursor of 20th-…
(Encyclopedia) Bologna, University of, at Bologna, Italy; founded in the 11th cent. It originated as a school where law books brought from Ravenna were interpreted. It has faculties of law, political…
