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Daniel Gray Quillen (June 22, 1940 – April 30, 2011) was an American mathematician.He is known for being the "prime architect" of higher algebraic K-theory, for which he was awarded the Cole Prize in 1975 and the Fields Medal in 1978.
Note-taking (sometimes written as notetaking or note taking) is the practice of recording information from different sources and platforms. By taking notes, the writer records the essence of the information, freeing their mind from having to recall everything. [1] Notes are commonly drawn from a transient source, such as an oral discussion at a ...
The geometry and topology of three-manifolds is a set of widely circulated but unpublished notes for a graduate course taught at Princeton University by William Thurston from 1978 to 1980 describing his work on 3-manifolds. The notes introduced several new ideas into geometric topology, including orbifolds, pleated manifolds, and train tracks.
Named for British philosopher John Locke, the Locke Lectures are the world's most prestigious lectures in philosophy, and are among the world's most prestigious academic lectures. They were established in 1950 by the bequest of Henry Wilde. Another comparable lecture series is the Gifford Lectures, which are delivered annually at several ...
ISBN. 978-0465028115. The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics is a popular science book by Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky. The book was initially published on January 29, 2013 by Basic Books. [1][2][3] The Theoretical Minimum is a book and a Stanford University -based continuing-education lecture series ...
India. 22°14′50″N 84°49′09″E / 22.247186°N 84.819203°E / 22.247186; 84.819203. Campus. Urban, 125 acres. Website. www.bput.ac.in. BPUT Campus. Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) is a public state university located in Rourkela, Odisha, India. It was established on 21 November 2002 and was named after Biju ...
Barbara McClintock delivers her Nobel lecture. A lecture (from Latin: lectura 'reading') is an oral presentation intended to present information or teach people about a particular subject, for example by a university or college teacher. Lectures are used to convey critical information, history, background, theories, and equations.
A simplicial line arrangement (left) and a simple line arrangement (right). In geometry, an arrangement of lines is the subdivision of the Euclidean plane formed by a finite set of lines. An arrangement consists of bounded and unbounded convex polygons, the cells of the arrangment, line segments and rays, the edges of the arrangement, and ...