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11basketry — /bas ki tree, bah ski /, n. 1. baskets collectively; basketwork. 2. the art or process of making baskets. [1850 55; BASKET + RY] * * * Art and craft of making containers and other objects from interwoven flexible fibres such as grasses, twigs,… …
12South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… …
13Euclidean geometry — A Greek mathematician performing a geometric construction with a compass, from The School of Athens by Raphael. Euclidean geometry is a mathematical system attributed to the Alexandrian Greek mathematician Euclid, which he described in his… …
14Computer-aided design — CAD and CADD redirect here. For other uses, see CAD (disambiguation) and CADD (disambiguation). Example 2D CAD drawing …
15British stained glass (1811-1918) — In early 19th century Britain, beginning with an armorial window created by Thomas Willement in 1811 12, there was a revival of the art and craft of stained glass window manufacture. This revival gained impetus until stained glass windows became… …
16Modular group — For a group whose lattice of subgroups is modular see Iwasawa group. In mathematics, the modular group Γ is a fundamental object of study in number theory, geometry, algebra, and many other areas of advanced mathematics. The modular group can be… …
17Spacetime — For other uses of this term, see Spacetime (disambiguation). Two dimensional analogy of spacetime distortion. Matter changes the geometry of spacetime, this (curved) geometry being interpreted as gravity. White lines do not represent the… …
18List of important publications in mathematics — One of the oldest surviving fragments of Euclid s Elements, found at Oxyrhynchus and dated to circa AD 100. The diagram accompanies Book II, Proposition 5.[1] This is a list of important publications in mathematics, organized by field. Some… …
19Mapping class group — In mathematics, in the sub field of geometric topology, the mapping class group is an important algebraic invariant of a topological space. Briefly, the mapping class group is a discrete group of symmetries of the space. Contents 1 Motivation 2… …
20Artin group — In mathematics, an Artin group (or generalized braid group) is a group with a presentation of the form:Biglangle x 1,x 2,ldots,x n Big| langle x 1, x 2 angle^{m {1,2=langle x 2, x 1 angle^{m {2,1, ldots , langle x {n 1}, x n angle^{m {n… …
