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- Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
5: ...en, despite her parents' strong attempts to dissuade her from engaging in a 'men's profession'. Severa...
7: ...eal her identity to him. Lagrange apparently considered her a talented mathematician and became her me...
9: ...o him admitting she was female, to which he responded:
12: ...uite extraordinary talents and superior genius. Indeed nothing could prove to me in so flattering and ...
17: ... first female to attend sessions at the French Academy of Sciences—excepting the wives of other ... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
21: DensityRank = 18<sup>th</sup> |
22: 2000Density = 54.59 |
23: AdmittanceOrder = 4<sup>th</sup> |
26: Latitude = 30°31'N to 35°N |
27: Longitude = 81°W to 85°53'W | - Missouri (16086 bytes)
10: ...me Law"'', compare with King [[Charles XIII of Sweden]] ([[1809]]) ''"The welfare of the people my hig...
23: DensityRank = 27<sup>th</sup> |
24: 2000Density = 80.27/mi²; 31 |
25: AdmittanceOrder = 24<sup>th</sup> |
28: Latitude = 36?N to 40?35'N | - Solar system (21174 bytes)
5: The wide variety of objects that exist in the Solar System...
20: [[Image:Portrait de famille (1 px = 1000 km).jpg|thumb|center|550px|T...
23: ...s, mainly Earth, as well as probes heading into [[deep space]].
25: **[[Space debris]] of artificial origin that can be found in o...
27: ...nt part of non-volatile minerals. They are subdivided into [[asteroid group]]s and [[:Category:Asteroi... - Charles Babbage (13539 bytes)
2: ...roto-) [[computer scientist]] who originated the idea of a ''programmable'' [[computer]]. Parts of hi...
5: ...t [[Teignmouth]], and Charles' father became a warden of the nearby St. Michael?s Church.
8: ...n near Cambridge, Charles said, "I fear I did not derive from it all the advantages that I might have ...
12: ...uate with honors. He instead received an honorary degree without examination in 1814.
16: ...ve of the marriage. The couple lived happily at 5 Devonshire Street, Portland Place, London. They had ... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
29: *[[Alexander Anderson (mathematician)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]] - [[1620]])
30: *[[Adolf Anderssen]] (Germany, [[1818]] - [[1879]])
36: *[[Archimedes]] (Syracuse, [[287 BC|287 B.C.]] - [[212 BC|212 ...
52: *[[Claude Gaspard Bachet de M麩riac]] (France, [[1581]] - [[1638]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: ...s [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] –...
19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] – [[1892]]...
26: *[[Harold Alden]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1890]] – [[196...
27: *[[Hannes Alfv鮝] ([[Sweden]], [[1908]] – [[1995]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
23: *[[Adelard of Bath]], (12th century){{fn|C}}
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
37: *[[Alain de Lille]], (c. 1128-1202)
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC) - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] [[writer]], [[deism|deist]] and [[philosophy|philosopher]].
8: ...d in Paris, the grandfather being a prosperous tradesman. Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire ...
10: ...unger brother was very fond, married early; the elder brother, Armand, was a strong [[Jansenism|Jansen...
12: ... [[knowledge]], and probably kindled his lifelong devotion to the stage.
14: ...ther stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never used it. - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
4: ...chus. However, his synthesis of astronomy superseded Hipparchus's work: although Hipparchus wrote at ...
8: ...eographia'' ("Geography"), and from [[Pliny the Elder]]'s ''[[Pliny's Natural History|Naturalis histor...
10: ...cient history|ancient]] district [[Bithynia]], (modern-day [[İznik, Turkey|İznik]] in provin...
14: ...was calculated by [[Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre|Delambre]], based on clues in his work. Hipparchus ...
16: ...ts. In the 2nd and 3rd centuries [[coin]]s were made in his honour in Bithynia that bear his name and ... - Hipparchus (50784 bytes)
3: ...chus. However, his synthesis of astronomy superseded Hipparchus's work: although Hipparchus wrote at ...
7: ...eographia'' ("Geography"), and from [[Pliny the Elder]]'s ''[[Pliny's Natural History|Naturalis histor...
9: ...cient history|ancient]] district [[Bithynia]], (modern-day [[İznik, Turkey|İznik]] in provin...
13: ...was calculated by [[Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre|Delambre]], based on clues in his work. Hipparchus ...
15: ...ts. In the 2nd and 3rd centuries [[coin]]s were made in his honour in Bithynia that bear his name and ... - Golden Ratio (15928 bytes)
1: ...l ratio. For the [[Aristotelian]] concept of "golden mean" see [[Nicomachean Ethics]].''
3: ...he '''golden mean''', '''golden section''', '''golden number''' or '''divine proportion'''.
5: ...asus of Metapontum]]. [[Euclid]] spoke of the "golden mean" this way, "A straight line is said to hav...
7: The golden ratio is typically symbolized by the [[Greek alp...
13: ...ong believed to have used the golden ratio in his designs. - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
4: ...x|Washington crossing the Delaware, [[December 25|Dec. 25]], [[1776]], an iconic event of the [[Americ...
6: ...ut with the French revolution, they were on the side of the counterrevolution.
8: ...al revolution]] started in Britain. Despite its modest beginnings in the 18th century, it would radica...
15: ...[1700]]: The [[1700 Cascadia earthquake]] (magnitude 9) occurs off the coast of the [[Pacific Northwes...
17: * [[1700]]-[[1721|21]]: [[Russia]] supplants [[Sweden]] as the dominant [[Baltic region|Baltic]] power... - Physics (25628 bytes)
2: ...ear particles from which all ordinary matter is made ([[particle physics]]) to the behavior of the mat...
4: ...of the underlying molecules, which are accurately described by areas of physics such as [[quantum mech...
6: ...cs, known as [[mathematical physics]], devoted to developing the mathematical structure of physical th...
15: ...hich no practical experimental test has ever been devised.
19: ...research into more specialized topics, and any student of physics, regardless of his or her specializa...
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