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  • 101Archimedes — /ahr keuh mee deez/, n. 287? 212 B.C., Greek mathematician, physicist, and inventor: discovered the principles of specific gravity and of the lever. * * * born с 290–280 BC, Syracuse, Sicily died 212/211 BC, Syracuse Legendary Greek inventor and… …

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  • 102celestial mechanics — the branch of astronomy that deals with the application of the laws of dynamics and Newton s law of gravitation to the motions of heavenly bodies. [1815 25] * * * Branch of astronomy that deals with the mathematical theory of the motions of… …

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  • 103mass spectrometry — or mass spectroscopy Analytic technique by which chemical substances are identified by sorting gaseous ions by mass using electric and magnetic fields. A mass spectrometer uses electrical means to detect the sorted ions, while a mass spectrograph …

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  • 104Compact linear Fresnel reflector — Fig.1: Example of a Traditional linear Fresnel reflector with one absorber. A compact linear Fresnel reflector (CLFR) – also referred to as a concentrating linear Fresnel reflector is a specific type of linear Fresnel reflector (LFR) technology.… …

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  • 105Mathematical optimization — For other uses, see Optimization (disambiguation). The maximum of a paraboloid (red dot) In mathematics, computational science, or management science, mathematical optimization (alternatively, optimization or mathematical programming) refers to… …

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  • 106Density theorem for Kleinian groups — In the mathematical theory of Kleinian groups, the density conjecture of Lipman Bers, Dennis Sullivan, and William Thurston, states that every finitely generated Kleinian group is an algebraic limit of geometrically finite Kleinian groups.… …

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  • 107Cayley plane — In mathematics, the Cayley plane (or octonionic projective plane) OP2 is a projective plane over the octonions.[1] It was discovered in 1933 by Ruth Moufang, and is named after Arthur Cayley (for his 1845 paper describing the octonions). As a… …

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  • 108par´a|bol´i|cal|ly — par|a|bol|ic1 «PAR uh BOL ihk», adjective. Geometry. 1. having the form of a parabola: »a parabolic orbit. He compelled the frothy liquor…to spout forth from one glass and descend into the other, in a great parabolic curve (Hawthorne). 2. having… …

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  • 109par|a|bol|ic — par|a|bol|ic1 «PAR uh BOL ihk», adjective. Geometry. 1. having the form of a parabola: »a parabolic orbit. He compelled the frothy liquor…to spout forth from one glass and descend into the other, in a great parabolic curve (Hawthorne). 2. having… …

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  • 110Linear programming — (LP, or linear optimization) is a mathematical method for determining a way to achieve the best outcome (such as maximum profit or lowest cost) in a given mathematical model for some list of requirements represented as linear relationships.… …

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