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- Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909) was a Canadian–American astronomer, applied mathematician, and autodidactic polymath. He served as Professor...32 KB (3,587 words) - 21:46, 18 April 2024
- In philosophy and mathematics, Newcomb's paradox, also known as Newcomb's problem, is a thought experiment involving a game between two players, one of...18 KB (2,305 words) - 08:44, 8 August 2024
- Benford's law (redirect from Newcomb-Benford’s Law)Benford's law, also known as the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation that in many real-life sets...65 KB (7,358 words) - 18:57, 28 August 2024
- operating officer Jonathan Newcomb. Simon & Schuster then sold several peripheral assets, such as selling Charles E. Simon Co. to CDB Infotek. Gousha...81 KB (6,716 words) - 18:39, 22 August 2024
- Tennessee, an unincorporated community Newcomb (lunar crater), named after Simon Newcomb Newcomb (Martian crater) Newcomb–Tulane College, located in New Orleans...1 KB (184 words) - 20:32, 12 September 2023
- concept of the celestial sphere to be a material, physical entity. Newcomb, Simon; Holden, Edward S. (1890). Astronomy. Henry Holt and Co., New York....18 KB (2,219 words) - 01:51, 4 August 2024
- 1864. Another method involved determining the constant of aberration. Simon Newcomb gave great weight to this method when deriving his widely accepted value...53 KB (5,372 words) - 07:18, 14 August 2024
- Simon Newcomb OAM (born 11 August 1938) is an Australian former representative rower. He competed in the men's coxless four event at the 1964 Summer Olympics...4 KB (405 words) - 04:19, 26 July 2024
- Archived from the original on 24 March 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2008. Newcomb, Simon (1911). "Light" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica....51 KB (6,346 words) - 23:00, 17 August 2024
- Archived from the original on 18 August 2006. Retrieved 12 August 2006. Newcomb, Simon; Clerke, Agnes Mary (1911). "Astronomy" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol...98 KB (10,183 words) - 21:31, 29 August 2024
- Office. ISBN 0-11-886934-5., p. B18 Astronomical Almanac 2010, p. B52 Newcomb, Simon (1906). A Compendium of Spherical Astronomy. MacMillan Co., New York...27 KB (2,661 words) - 17:53, 11 August 2024
- the Poisson distribution should bear the name of de Moivre. In 1860, Simon Newcomb fitted the Poisson distribution to the number of stars found in a unit...81 KB (11,248 words) - 16:53, 25 August 2024
- "Allegory of the Cave" presented in Plato's The Republic (c. 380 BC). Simon Newcomb wrote an article for the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society...44 KB (5,322 words) - 11:50, 10 August 2024
- observations". Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 1: 66–71. Newcomb, Simon (1906), A Compendium of Spherical Astronomy, New York: The Macmillan...40 KB (4,629 words) - 17:10, 24 August 2024
- Around the Sun) is a work by the American astronomer and mathematician Simon Newcomb, published in volume VI of the serial publication Astronomical Papers...7 KB (918 words) - 03:27, 28 November 2020
- USS Simon Newcomb (AGSC-14/YMS-263) was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II, and whose task...6 KB (501 words) - 17:22, 21 May 2022
- p. B18. ISBN 978-0-11-886934-8. Astronomical Almanac 2010, p. B52 Newcomb, Simon (1906). A Compendium of Spherical Astronomy. MacMillan. pp. 226–227...33 KB (3,102 words) - 03:41, 15 June 2024
- known as the creator of Newcomb's paradox, devised in 1960. He was the great-grandnephew of the astronomer Simon Newcomb. Newcomb started at the Lawrence...2 KB (134 words) - 15:06, 29 April 2022
- "Hipparchus". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 August 2017. Newcomb, Simon (1878). Popular Astronomy. New York: Harper. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-665-01376-8...83 KB (10,063 words) - 21:53, 28 August 2024
- Wonderful Visit and Men Like Gods, an idea proposed by the astronomer Simon Newcomb, who talked about both time and parallel universes; "Add a fourth dimension...90 KB (12,931 words) - 00:19, 24 August 2024
- Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 19 Newcomb, Simon 21575141911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 19 — Newcomb, Simon NEWCOMB, SIMON (1835–1909), American astronomer
- Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909) was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician, and Professor of Mathematics in the U.S. Navy and
- abacus. In the 19th century, the well-known Canadian-American astronomer Simon Newcomb, a renowned human computer, recommended the practice of adding and subtracting