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71Axe médian — Une ellipse (en rouge), sa développée (en bleu), et son axe médian (en vert). L ensemble symétrique, un ensemble englobant l axe médian correspond aux courbes verte et jaune. Un cercle bi tangent est également représenté. L axe médian est une… …
72Dedekind, Richard — ▪ German mathematician born Oct. 6, 1831, Braunschweig, duchy of Braunschweig [Germany] died Feb. 12, 1916, Braunschweig German mathematician who developed a major redefinition of irrational numbers (irrational number) in terms of arithmetic… …
73probability and statistics — ▪ mathematics Introduction the branches of mathematics concerned with the laws governing random events, including the collection, analysis, interpretation, and display of numerical data. Probability has its origin in the study of gambling… …
74Duration (philosophy) — Henri Bergson in 1927. Duration is a theory of time and consciousness posited by the French philosopher Henri Bergson. Bergson sought to improve upon inadequacies he perceived in the philosophy of Herbert Spencer, due, he believed, to Spencer s… …
75The Method of Mechanical Theorems — is a work by Archimedes which contains the first attested explicit use of infinitesimals.[1] The work was originally thought to be lost, but was rediscovered in the celebrated Archimedes Palimpsest. The palimpsest includes Archimedes account of… …
76infinitesimal — Both the infinitely large and its inverse, the infinitely small, cause headaches. The first philosophical explorations that turned disquiet into something more tangible were Zeno s paradoxes . The 18th century development of the calculus led to… …
77infinity — The unlimited; that which goes beyond any fixed bound. Exploration of this notion goes back at least to Zeno of Elea, and extensive mathematical treatment began with Eudoxus of Cnidus (4th c. BC). The mathematical notion was further developed by… …
78L'Hôpital , Marquis Guillaume François Antoine de — (1661–1704) French mathematician L Hôpital, a Parisian by birth, began his career as a cavalry officer. However, he was forced to resign because of his short sightedness and devoted the rest of his life to mathematical study and research. To this …
79nonstandard analysis — nonstandard analysis, the mathematical study of infinitely large and infinitely small numbers: »Nonstandard analysis, a revolutionary new approach to classical calculus, is deeply rooted in mathematical logic, the study of the reasoning process… …
80Newton's law of universal gravitation — Classical mechanics Newton s Second Law History of classical mechanics  …
