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  • 1Saint Petersburg (disambiguation) — Saint Petersburg is the second largest city in Russia.Saint Petersburg may also refer to the following places in the United States of America: *St. Petersburg, Florida *St. Petersburg, Pennsylvania *St. Petersburg, Missouri mdash;the fictional… …

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  • 2St. Petersburg paradox — In economics, the St. Petersburg paradox is a paradox related to probability theory and decision theory. It is based on a particular (theoretical) lottery game (sometimes called St. Petersburg Lottery ) that leads to a random variable with… …

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  • 3List of philosophy topics (R-Z) — RRaRabad Rabbinic law Rabbinic theology Francois Rabelais François Rabelais race racetrack paradox racism Gustav Radbruch Janet Radcliffe Richards Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan radical Aristotelianism radical behaviourism radical feminism radical… …

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  • 4Nicolaus II Bernoulli — Nicolaus II Bernoulli, a.k.a. Niklaus Bernoulli, Nikolaus Bernoulli, (February 6, 1695, Basel, Switzerland – July 31, 1726, St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family …

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  • 5Georg Cantor — Infobox Scientist name = Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Cantor image width=225px caption = birth date = birth date|1845|3|3 birth place = Saint Petersburg, Russia death date = death date and age|1918|1|6|1845|3|3 death place = Halle, Germany residence =… …

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  • 6Europe, history of — Introduction       history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …

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  • 7List of Russian people — The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod, featuring the statues and reliefs of the most celebrated people in the first 1000 years of Russian history …

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  • 8Vladimir Putin — This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Vladimirovich and the family name is Putin. Vladimir Putin Владимир Путин …

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  • 9List of mathematics articles (S) — NOTOC S S duality S matrix S plane S transform S unit S.O.S. Mathematics SA subgroup Saccheri quadrilateral Sacks spiral Sacred geometry Saddle node bifurcation Saddle point Saddle surface Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics Safe prime Safe… …

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  • 10Anton Rubinstein — This article is about the 19th century Russian pianist and composer. For Anton s brother, also a composer and pianist, see Nikolai Rubinstein. For the unrelated 20th century Polish pianist, see Arthur Rubinstein .Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein ( ru …

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