Sentences with phrase «number theory called»

These conjectures focused around a very rich area of number theory called elliptic curves, which, despite the name, have only a passing connection with ellipses.

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These aspects of Aristotle's theory are illustrated in this passage: «We call those propositions single which indicate a single fact, or the conjunction of the parts of which results in unity: those propositions, on the other band, are separate and many in number, which indicate many facts, or whose parts have no conjunction» (17a 15 - 17).

In theory, this plus news that the Kings and Cavs are «far apart» on a George Hill trade could end up with Channing Frye playing more minutes, something a number of smart folks have called for.

Zhang, a mathematician at the University of New Hampshire, stunned the mathematical world in May when he reported a major step toward solving one of the oldest outstanding problems in number theory, called the twin prime conjecture (SN: 10/19/13, p. 38).

The authors suggest there is a higher - order process at work that they call global coherence that overrules local contradictions: «Someone who believes in a significant number of conspiracy theories would naturally begin to see authorities as fundamentally deceptive, and new conspiracy theories would seem more plausible in light of that belief.»

According to a popular but polarizing framework called string theory, the number of possible types of universes that can bubble up in a multiverse is around 10 ^ 500.

The finding would bolster theories — such as string theory — that call for a vast number of universes with different properties.

This so - called compactification generates a number of «modulus» forces, some of which would be comparable to gravity at distances approaching a tenth of a millimeter under certain string theory scenarios.

In this episode, Scientific American editor George Musser talks with Caltech Astronomer Josh Simon about dark matter, and about the efforts to try to locate the so - called missing satellites of the Milky Way — small galaxies that have yet to be found in the numbers that the cold dark matter theory predicts.

In Germany, in the late 1800s, [an] incredible number of children were dying often of diarrhea and Escherich had this radical idea that was called the germ theory of disease — that bacteria of all things can make you sick and very few people really accepted this at that time, but Escherich thought that this was the best way to understand why these children were dying.

Lead investigator Juliean de Wit used an 18th - century mathematical constant called the Euler - Mascheroni constant that's used in analysis and number theory and demonstrated that the constant allows one to work out the individual effects of each parameter in the spectrum — described as sort of an «encryption key» to the atmosphere.

One long - standing astrophysical puzzle is that of so - called «missing» dwarf galaxies: the number of small dwarf galaxies that we observe is far fewer than that predicted by theory.

and i used to be constantly hungry and craving «something» there can be a number of so called theories — but if it's assisting and helping myself and so many, then I can not see this as a bad thing.

His ACT * theory of learning was used to undergird a number of successful ITS programs in the early 1980s for teaching the Lisp computer programming, called the Lisp Tutor, and ultimately the successful Geometry and Algebra Tutors, which are sold today by Carnegie Learning Corporation.

The Author Earnings numbers also tend to support Thompson's broader point, based on what he calls «aggregation theory,» which is that digital platforms from companies like Amazon are ultimately dis - intermediating existing industries like book publishing, by allowing content creators to do an end - run around incumbents and sell directly to consumers.

Drawing upon a number of works, the presentation asks not what theory does for art but what art does for theory, in the lure of what Chris Kraus calls an «atmosphere of meaning.»

However, a number of verified or falsified hypotheses can accumulate to a body of knowledge that could be called a «theory.»

Just one of a number of reasons to consider that possibility: Those oceans which seem to make their way into every climate theory are largely unvisited and unknown, as is that big hot ball underneath them (called Earth).

In 1991, the large coal operation called Western Fuels was very candid in its annual report, and it said it was going to attack mainstream science, it hired three so called greenhouse skeptics, scientists who didn't believe that this was happening, and they mounted a number of public relations campaigns, one in particular is quite interesting, this was a program that called for interviews by these three scientists, radio, newspaper, and TV interviews, in a campaign, and the strategy papers for the campaign said it was designed to quote «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact»....

I am seriously interested in understanding this because my impression after reading a number of posts is that this is mainly about poking holes in AGW hypothesis, theories and so called evidence without presenting a balanced picture.

A tiny clique called the «team» numbering no more than a dozen people in climate science developed this threadbare «theory».

An offshoot of Lean called the Theory of Constraints teaches that all workflows are constrained by a very small number of bottlenecks, usually only one.