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Quizlet was founded in October 2005 by Andrew Sutherland, who at the time was a 15-year old student, [2] and released to the public in January 2007. [3] Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards , matching games , practice electronic assessments , and live quizzes.
His wife, Susan Willis Carleton, donated $10,000 to help clear the construction debt of the college's the first permanent building. [4] The building was named Willis Hall in her honor. [ 5 ] It was designed in the French Second Empire style by a prominent Minneapolis architecture firm, Alden and Howe.
The 10 to 1 ratio was an estimate made in 1972; current estimates put the ratio at either 3 to 1 or 1.3 to 1. [300] The total length of capillaries in the human body is not 100,000 km. That figure comes from a 1929 book by August Krogh, who used an unrealistically large model person and an inaccurately high density of capillaries.
The phrase was popularized by its use in a textbook by Theodore L. Brown and H. Eugene LeMay, titled Chemistry: The Central Science, which was first published in 1977, with a fifteenth edition published in 2021. [2] The central role of chemistry can be seen in the systematic and hierarchical classification of the sciences by Auguste Comte.
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) is a principal agency of the Federal Statistical System of the United States that serves as a clearinghouse for collecting, interpreting, analyzing, and disseminating objective statistical data on the United States and other nations’ science and engineering enterprises. [3]
Ian Nicholas Stewart FRS CMath FIMA (born 24 September 1945) [3] is a British mathematician and a popular-science and science-fiction writer. [4] He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick , England.
Black and white tables of natural history, from Ephraim Chambers's 1728 Cyclopaedia.. Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.
Tegmark's MUH is the hypothesis that our external physical reality is a mathematical structure. [3] That is, the physical universe is not merely described by mathematics, but is mathematics — specifically, a mathematical structure. Mathematical existence equals physical existence, and all structures that exist mathematically exist physically ...