• In general relativity, Synge's world function is a smooth locally defined function of pairs of points in a smooth spacetime M {\displaystyle M} with smooth...
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    the distinguished Canadian mathematician Cathleen Synge Morawetz. Synge's uncle John Millington Synge was a famous playwright. He is more distantly related...
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  • Differential Geometry (hardcover ed.), World Scientific, ISBN 978-981-02-3494-2. Gauss Lemma Fermi coordinates Local reference frame Synge's world function...
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  • precession Schwarzschild geodesics Geodesics as Hamiltonian flows Synge's world function Steven Weinberg, Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications...
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    partition function describes the statistical properties of a system in thermodynamic equilibrium.[citation needed] Partition functions are functions of the...
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  • transport Pullback Propagator Riemann curvature tensor Stokes flow Synge's world function Gökler, Can (2021-02-18). "Estimation theory and gravity". arXiv:2003...
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    Parastatistics Logistic function Sigmoid function The F–D distribution is a type of mathematical function called a logistic function or sigmoid function. Note that...
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  • Emmy Award winning television film adaptation of J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World for PBS. Her other television credits included guest spots...
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    died before it was established and his plan was overseen by John Lighton Synge. The medal was first awarded in 1936 to Finnish mathematician Lars Ahlfors...
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    interpretation was debatable. After the riots following Synge's Playboy of the Western World, she fully expressed her hatred for Irish nationalism and...
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  • nowadays known as Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates were much simpler than Synge's but both provided a single set of coordinates that covered the entire spacetime...
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    of polynomials. Nash's proof introduced the concepts now known as Nash function and Nash manifold, which have since been widely studied in real algebraic...
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    Z_{\beta }=\sum _{\sigma }e^{-\beta H(\sigma )}} is the partition function. For a function f {\displaystyle f} of the spins ("observable"), one denotes by...
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    Abiogenesis (redirect from Lipid world)
    temperatures. In an RNA world, the ribozyme would have had even more functions than in a later DNA-RNA-protein-world. For RNA to function, it must be able to...
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    city during the early 20th century. Other renowned writers include J. M. Synge, Seán O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Maeve Binchy, John Banville and Roddy Doyle...
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    system as a pair (M, L) consisting of a configuration space M and a smooth function L {\textstyle L} within that space called a Lagrangian. For many systems...
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  • probability density function is proportional to some function of the ensemble parameters and random variables. Thermodynamic state functions are described by...
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  • atom in 1913. The Langevin function is often seen as the classical theory of paramagnetism, while the Brillouin function is the quantum theory of paramagnetism...
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  • Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Mário de Andrade, W. B. Yeats, John Millington Synge, Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and William...
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    thermodynamic work cycle. This definition is extended by the evolution of novel functions over time. Living systems are characterized by a multiscale, hierarchical...
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    Therefore, the total moment of inertia, and the angular momentum, is a complex function of the configuration of the matter about the center of rotation and the...
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    a grand partition function and replacing E {\displaystyle E} with N ε {\displaystyle N\varepsilon } , the grand partition function takes the form Z =...
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  • processes in open systems. The grand potential is the characteristic state function for the grand canonical ensemble. The grand potential is defined by Φ G...
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  • (\varphi )\;} is a different dimensionless function for each different scalar–tensor theory. The function λ ( φ ) {\displaystyle \lambda (\varphi )\;}...
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    strong influence of the Irish playwright J. M. Synge; she was drawn to both the poetic quality of Synge's language and the pessimism of his vision. Critics...
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  • Flann O'Brien (category People educated at Synge Street CBS)
    that Brian and his siblings regularly attended school. O'Brien attended Synge Street Christian Brothers School, Dublin of which his novel The Hard Life...
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    map is called a scalar density. To model a non-constant density, ρ is a function of the variables x, y, z (a scalar field), and under a curvilinear change...
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    radio and then television presenter, was born on Synge Street and attended Synge Street CBS. Edward Synge had his Dublin family home in Kevin Street Palace...
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    Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (category British field marshals of World War I)
    offensives, but historians like John Terraine argue that this was largely a function of the size of the battles, as British forces engaged the main body of...
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    could lead to ecological cascades that would influence the structure and function of future ecosystems beyond the simple fact of losing those species. — Jonathan...
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