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Wolfram Science World: Lazzaro Spallanzani
This site from Science World provides very brief but factual information on the life of the Italian biologist, Lazzaro Spallanzani. A link is provided for information on John Needham.
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Wolfram Science World: Menaechmus (Ca. 380 Bc ?)
This site from ScienceWorld provides brief but factual biographical information on the Greek mathematician Menaechmus. It contains a quote of his to one of his students when asked for a shortcut to geometry.
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Wolfram Math World: Semi Major Axis
This site defines semi major axis and has links to related topics.
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Wolfram Math World: Principal Square Root
MathWorld offers an explanation for the concept of principal square root is found here.
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Wolfram Math World: Net
Here you can find a definition for the mathmatical term 'net', in addition to a couple of examples.
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Wolfram Math World: Asymptote
This site from MathWorld provides a picture, or diagram of the asymptotes along with a very brief, one sentence definition. Links are provided for related subjects, along with a short bibliography.
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Wolfram Math World: Convergent Sequence
This site from MathWorld explains convergent sequences with links to related information. The information is very brief, but examples and formulas are provided.
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Wolfram Math World: Decreasing Sequence.
This site provides a brief overview of a decreasing sequence. Content also includes a full definition of a sequence.
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Wolfram Math World: Binomial Series
This site provides definitions and examples of binomial series.
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Wolfram Science World: Alessandro Volta
This site from ScienceWorld provides a very short biographical sketch of Alessandro Volta and describes his most notable scientific discoveries and contributions. Several links are also provided for additional information.
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Wolfram Science World: Gustav Kirchhoff
This site from ScienceWorld provides a short but factual biographical sketch of the German physicist, Gustav Kirchhoff and describes his most notable discoveries and contributions to the realm of science.
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Wolfram Science World: Phillipp Lenard
This site from ScienceWorld mostly describes Lenard's most notable scientific discoveries and contributions. Includes minimal biographical information and links to additional information on related subjects.
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Wolfram Science World: Isomer
This page from ScienceWorld provides a one sentence long definition of an isomer. Links are provided for additional information, such as: conformational isomer, configurational isomer, and structural isomer.
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Wolfram Science World: Structural Isomer
This site from ScienceWorld provides a brief but factual definition on a structural isomer. Includes a link for additional information, and the definition has a scientific style to it.
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Wolfram Math World: Integration
On this site from MathWorld.com there are links to related topics on Integration.
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Wolfram Math World: Inner Product
This site contains links to four kinds of inner products: Dot Product, Hermitian Inner Product, Interior Product, L2-Inner Product.
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Wolfram Science World: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics: Electrical Conduction
A brief definition for what electrical conduction is. Also provides the definition for related terms.
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Wolfram Science World: Heron of Alexandria (Ca. 75 Ad)
Greek mathematician who was mainly interested in practical studies of mechanics and engineering. He dealt with a number of such problems in his work Dioptra. He is best known today for Proposition 1.8 of his Metrica, which is now known...
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Wolfram Science World: United States System of Liquid and Dry Measures
Unlike the British Imperial system, the United states uses two different systems, one for liquid volumes and one for dry volumes. Confusingly, these two systems share the units of quart and pint, which have different values. This site...
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Wolfram Science World: Alkyne
This site from ScienceWorld provides a very brief but factual description of alkynes, and describes the differences between alkynes and alkenes.
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Wolfram Math World: Octant
This page from MathWorld.com provides a good diagram of the eight octants of the Cartesian coordinate system. (Good picture, but not much explanation is included!)
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Wolfram Math World: Direction Cosine
This page discusses the direction cosine, which can be used to find the coordinates of a unit vector in the direction of any given vector. Includes some rather advanced formulas.
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Wolfram Science World: Carnot, Sadi (1796 1832)
A brief overview of Sadi's (1796-1832 CE) life. Contains a link to an explanation of the Carnot cycle, a thermodynamic cycle involving the temperature and pressure of gases.
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Wolfram Math World: Convergence Tests
This page provides links to information about tests to determine the convergence or divergence of a series. No information about convergence tests is offered directly at this link.