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    Lewis Fry Richardson, FRS (11 October 1881 – 30 September 1953) was an English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist, and pacifist who...
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    extrapolating the estimates to h = 0 {\displaystyle h=0} . It is named after Lewis Fry Richardson, who introduced the technique in the early 20th century, though the...
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  • The Richardson number (Ri) is named after Lewis Fry Richardson (1881–1953). It is the dimensionless number that expresses the ratio of the buoyancy term...
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    Steinhaus, the first systematic study of this phenomenon was by Lewis Fry Richardson, and it was expanded upon by Benoit Mandelbrot. The measured length...
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  • Lewis Richardson may refer to: Lewis Fry Richardson (1881–1953), English mathematician and meteorologist Lewis Richardson (boxer) (born 1997), English...
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  • Modified Richardson iteration is an iterative method for solving a system of linear equations. Richardson iteration was proposed by Lewis Fry Richardson in...
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  • Thus ev'ry Poet, in his Kind Is bit by him that comes behind[.] Lewis Fry Richardson adapted the poem to meteorology in 1922: Big whirls have little whirls...
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  • Richards, the equation was originally introduced 9 years earlier by Lewis Fry Richardson in 1922. The Richards equation appears in many articles in the environmental...
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    application to meteorology can be found in the scientific work of Lewis Fry Richardson who, in 1922, estimated that 64,000 humans could forecast the weather...
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  • fractional dimensions. In that paper, Mandelbrot cited previous work by Lewis Fry Richardson describing the counter-intuitive notion that a coastline's measured...
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  • before the work of Young and Frankel. An example is the method of Lewis Fry Richardson, and the methods developed by R. V. Southwell. However, these methods...
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  • Deadly Quarrels is a 1960 book by English mathematician and physicist Lewis Fry Richardson 11 October 1881 - 30 September 1953 published by Boxwood Press. The...
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    the early operations. Atmospheric ion measurements were made by Lewis Fry Richardson. As Eskdalemuir is a relatively clean site distant from major towns...
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    earliest type of calculations resembling modern CFD are those by Lewis Fry Richardson, in the sense that these calculations used finite differences and...
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    Steinhaus, the first systematic study of this phenomenon was by Lewis Fry Richardson, and it was expanded upon by Benoit Mandelbrot. The measured length...
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    Mandelbrot's awards include the Wolf Prize for Physics in 1993, the Lewis Fry Richardson Prize of the European Geophysical Society in 2000, the Japan Prize...
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  • William John Macquorn Rankine Gandikota V. Rao Erik N. Rasmussen Lewis Fry Richardson Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby François van Rysselberghe Horace-Bénédict...
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    Arms industry Cyber arms race Driver safety arms race AI arms race Lewis Fry Richardson for his mathematical analysis of war Second Cold War Military–industrial...
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    Nuclear Waste Depositories (1994–1997). He was awarded the First Lewis Fry Richardson Medal for exceptional contributions to non-linear geophysics (1998)...
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    structure." Yaglom received the European Geosciences Union's 2008 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal, posthumously, for his "eminent and pioneering contributions...
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  • to a range of stratified fluid applications. In the early 1920s, Lewis Fry Richardson developed the concept that such shear instability would only form...
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    A), or even in the Virgo cluster. For the British meteorologist Lewis Fry Richardson, author of a statistical study on mortality (published in Statistics...
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    Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension, which built on earlier work by Lewis Fry Richardson. In 1975, Mandelbrot solidified hundreds of years of thought and...
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    been observed in optical systems. In 1926, using weather balloons, Lewis Fry Richardson demonstrated that the atmosphere exhibits super-diffusion. In a bounded...
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  • modulating weather in higher latitudes of the Pacific. In 1922, Lewis Fry Richardson published the first attempt at forecasting the weather numerically...
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    Paul Lévy Aleksandr Lyapunov Benoit Mandelbrot Hamid Naderi Yeganeh Lewis Fry Richardson Wacław Sierpiński Other "How Long Is the Coast of Britain?" Coastline...
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    Images, and Audiences. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-1-4833-2355-8. Lewis Fry Richardson (1950). The Statistics of Deadly Quarrels. Berreby, David (July 31...
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  • warfare Petrie multiplier similar mathematical model for sexism Lewis Fry Richardson Salvo combat model Lanchester F.W., Mathematics in Warfare in The...
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    numerical weather prediction began in the 1920s through the efforts of Lewis Fry Richardson, who used procedures originally developed by Vilhelm Bjerknes to...
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    Paul Lévy Aleksandr Lyapunov Benoit Mandelbrot Hamid Naderi Yeganeh Lewis Fry Richardson Wacław Sierpiński Other "How Long Is the Coast of Britain?" Coastline...
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