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• 133:5 At Athens—Discourse on Science
  ...sheep in ten minutes, ten men could shear it in one minute. That is sound mathematics, but it is not true, for the ten men could not so do it; they would get in 133:5.6 [[Mathematics]] asserts that, if one person stands for a certain [[unit]] of [[intellectu
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• Aptitude
  ...ause all [[ability]] test scores tend to be correlated. Aptitude is better applied intra-individually to [[determine]] what tasks a given individual is [[rela ...oth on [[innate]] mathematical [[ability]] and [[education]] received in [[mathematics]].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptitude]
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• Natural Sciences
  ...dy human behavior and society, and from the [[formal science]]s, such as [[mathematics]] and [[logic]], which use a different [[methodology]]. ...and from the [[humanities]], [[theology]] and the [[art]]s on the other. [[Mathematics]], [[statistics]] and [[computer science]] are not considered natural scien
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• Space
  ...part [[Event (philosophy)|event]]s occur. However, these measurements are applied by our minds to categorize what we sense and are not an inherent part of th ==In mathematics==
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• Proof
  ...rous deduction. In [[formal]] [[axiomatic]] [[systems]] of [[logic]] and [[mathematics]], a proof is a [[finite]] sequence of well developed [[formulas]] (generat :10. a. A standard of strength of distilled alcoholic liquors; applied to or denoting liquor of this strength; the relative strength (usually meas
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• 88:6 The Practice of Magic
  ...white and black [[magic]]. And as [[religion]] evolved, magic was the term applied to [[spirit]] operations outside one's own [[cult]], and it also referred t ...s], while [[belief]] in [[magic]] [[numbers]] founded the [[science]] of [[mathematics]].
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• Mesopotamia
  ...milar geographical concept. Later, the term Mesopotamia was more generally applied to all the lands between the Euphrates and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wi ...planting of the first cereal crops and the development of cursive script, Mathematics, Astronomy and Agriculture." A modern [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyri
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• Social
  The adjective "social" implies that the verb or noun to which it is applied is somehow more communicative, cooperative, and moderated by contact with h ...that do not include the word "social". An example is [[quasi-empiricism in mathematics]] which is sometimes labelled social constructivism by those who see it as
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• Symmetry
  ...ns, rigid rotations, reflections, scaling, etc.). Emmy Noether (1882–1935) applied Klein's approach to theoretical physics to establish in 1915 a famous theor
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• Common sense
  ...tion]], the universal [[belief]] in the existence of a [[material]] world. Applied to the Scotch school which arose in the 18th c. in opposition to the views ...ogy absent original assumptions stemming from common sense? Particularism, applied to [[ethics]] and [[politics]], may seem to simply entrench prejudice and o
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• The Sciences
  ...fined here is sometimes termed [[pure science]] to differentiate it from [[applied science]], which is the application of scientific research to specific huma [[Mathematics]], which is sometimes classified within a third group of science called [[f
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• Genius
  ...first IQ tests, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Binet Alfred Binet], applied the term, to the top .1% of those tested.[2][3] This usage of the term is c ...he most frequent value. Quetelet [[discovered]] that the bell-shaped curve applied to social [[statistics]] gathered by the French government in the course of
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• Mirror
  The tin is applied because silver will not bond with the glass. The activator causes the tin/s ...eflectivities of 90–95% when new. A protective transparent overcoat may be applied to prevent oxidation of the reflective layer. Applications requiring higher
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• Science
  ...defined here is sometimes termed 'pure science' to differentiate it from [[applied science]], which is the application of scientific research to specific huma [[Mathematics]], which is sometimes classified within a third group of science called [[f
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• Analogy
  ...] the word ''αναλογια'' (''analogia'') originally meant [[Proportionality (mathematics)|proportionality]], in the mathematical sense, and it was indeed sometimes ...n]] stating as a premise a (previously hidden) universal proposition which applied both to the source and the target. In this view, instead of an argument wit
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• Focus
  ...called the eccentricity. Even in the case of two foci, the described set, applied on a single focus-directrix combination, is the whole conic section. [[Category: Mathematics]]
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• Logic
  ...solely on foundational issues, and the study of several resulting areas of mathematics came to be called [[mathematical logic]]. "Occidental mathematics has in past centuries broken away from the Greek view and followed a course
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• Matrix
  In [[mathematics]], a '''matrix''' (plural matrices, or less commonly matrixes) is a rectang ...a long history of application in solving [[linear equations]]. The Chinese mathematics [[text]] from between 300 BC and AD 200, ''[[The Nine Chapters on the Mathe
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• Cybernetics
  ...ss and refine the principles of self-regulating devices. Jakob von Uexküll applied the feedback mechanism via his model of functional cycle (Funktionskreis) i ...on S. Brown to develop electronic control systems for the U.S. Navy, later applied these ideas to social organizations such as corporations and cities as an o
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• Exponential
  ...ial. A free [[electron]] becomes sufficiently accelerated by an externally applied electrical field that it frees up additional electrons as it collides with [[Category: Mathematics]]
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