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  2. Hess's law - Wikipedia

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    Hess's law of constant heat summation, also known simply as Hess's law, is a relationship in physical chemistry and thermodynamics [1] named after Germain Hess, a Swiss-born Russian chemist and physician who published it in 1840. The law states that the total enthalpy change during the complete course of a chemical reaction is independent of ...

  3. Standard enthalpy of formation - Wikipedia

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    For many substances, the formation reaction may be considered as the sum of a number of simpler reactions, either real or fictitious. The enthalpy of reaction can then be analyzed by applying Hess' law, which states that the sum of the enthalpy changes for a number of individual reaction steps equals the enthalpy change of the overall reaction.

  4. Hessian matrix - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics portal; The determinant of the Hessian matrix is a covariant; see Invariant of a binary form; Polarization identity, useful for rapid calculations involving Hessians. Jacobian matrix – Matrix of all first-order partial derivatives of a vector-valued function; Hessian equation

  5. Otto Hesse - Wikipedia

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    Ludwig Otto Hesse (22 April 1811 – 4 August 1874) was a German mathematician.Hesse was born in Königsberg, Prussia, and died in Munich, Bavaria.He worked mainly on algebraic invariants, and geometry.

  6. Metric signature - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the signature (v, p, r) [clarification needed] of a metric tensor g (or equivalently, a real quadratic form thought of as a real symmetric bilinear form on a finite-dimensional vector space) is the number (counted with multiplicity) of positive, negative and zero eigenvalues of the real symmetric matrix g ab of the metric tensor with respect to a basis.

  7. Germain Henri Hess - Wikipedia

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    Germain Henri Hess (Russian: Герман Иванович Гесс, romanized: German Ivanovich Gess; 7 August 1802 – 12 December [O.S. 30 November] 1850) was a Swiss-Russian chemist and doctor who formulated Hess' law, an early principle of thermochemistry.

  8. Mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics - Wikipedia

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    While the mathematics permits calculation of many quantities that can be measured experimentally, there is a definite theoretical limit to values that can be simultaneously measured. This limitation was first elucidated by Heisenberg through a thought experiment , and is represented mathematically in the new formalism by the non-commutativity ...

  9. Newton's method in optimization - Wikipedia

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    The geometric interpretation of Newton's method is that at each iteration, it amounts to the fitting of a parabola to the graph of () at the trial value , having the same slope and curvature as the graph at that point, and then proceeding to the maximum or minimum of that parabola (in higher dimensions, this may also be a saddle point), see below.