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  2. Kinesiology - Wikipedia

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    Kinesiology (from Ancient Greek κίνησις (kínēsis) 'movement' and -λογία-logía 'study of') is the scientific study of human body movement. Kinesiology addresses physiological, anatomical, biomechanical, pathological, neuropsychological principles and mechanisms of movement.

  3. History of mathematics - Wikipedia

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    These problems, spanning many areas of mathematics, formed a central focus for much of 20th-century mathematics. Today, 10 have been solved, 7 are partially solved, and 2 are still open. The remaining 4 are too loosely formulated to be stated as solved or not. [citation needed] A map illustrating the Four Color Theorem

  4. 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 ...

  5. Giovanni Alfonso Borelli - Wikipedia

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    Euclid was an ancient Greek mathematician whose book had been one of the most important mathematical texts for centuries. Borelli also revised Apollonius of Perga: Conics, a treatise on mathematics that examined parabolas and ellipses. Apollonius of Perga was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician. [2]

  6. Timeline of calculus and mathematical analysis - Wikipedia

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    [2] Before 50 BC - Babylonian cuneiform tablets show use of the Trapezoid rule to calculate of the position of Jupiter. [3] 3rd century - Liu Hui rediscovers the method of exhaustion in order to find the area of a circle. 4th century - The Pappus's centroid theorem,

  7. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] [8] Quizlet's blog, written mostly by Andrew in the earlier days of the company, claims it had reached 50,000 registered users in 252 days online. [9] In the following two years, Quizlet reached its 1,000,000th registered user. [10] Until 2011, Quizlet shared staff and financial resources with the Collectors Weekly website. [11]

  8. University of Waterloo - Wikipedia

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    It later established the first Faculty of Mathematics in North America on 1 January 1967. [29] In 1967, the world's first department of kinesiology was created. [30] The present legislative act which defines how the university should be governed, the University of Waterloo Act, 1972 was passed on 10 May 1972. [31]

  9. Exercise physiology - Wikipedia

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    Although gluconeogenesis is an important component of hepatic glucose output, it alone cannot sustain exercise. For this reason, when glycogen stores are depleted during exercise, glucose levels fall and fatigue sets in. Glucose disposal, the other side of the equation, is controlled by the uptake of glucose by the working skeletal muscles.