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Edward Wright (baptised 8 October 1561; died November 1615) was an English mathematician and cartographer noted for his book Certaine Errors in Navigation (1599; 2nd ed., 1610), which for the first time explained the mathematical basis of the Mercator projection by building on the works of Pedro Nunes, and set out a reference table giving the ...
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The film received positive reviews from mathematics publications. Hemant Mehta of the Skeptical Inquirer wrote, "While other film versions of Flatland have been made in the past, none have the visual appeal and star power this one has," and went on to add that the film "should be required viewing for any twenty-first century math teacher."
An examination book, or exam book, or Blue book is a notebook used by students of many post-secondary schools in the United States to write essays and answer multiple short-answer questions when their assessment tests are administered. The books commonly have blue cover and are titled "Blue book", although books called simply "Examination book ...
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[W 106] Additionally, "Wikipedia for Schools", the Wikipedia series of CDs / DVDs produced by Wikipedia and SOS Children, is a free selection from Wikipedia designed for education towards children eight to seventeen. [W 107] There have been efforts to put a select subset of Wikipedia's articles into printed book form. [246]
Poincaré, Henri (1908), The Future of Mathematics (PDF), Revue generale des Sciences pures et appliquees, vol. 23, archived from the original (PDF) on 2003-06-29 (address to the Fourth International Congress of Mathematicians) Sainsbury, R.M. (1979), Russell, London {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher
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 as well. Observers, including humans, are "self-aware substructures (SASs)".