Monday, August 27, 2018

The Definition and Purpose of the Zero Article

The Definition and Purpose of the Zero Article: count nouns are sometimes used without an article, especially when they are referred to generically. The same is true when the noun is plural but of indefinite number.

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Sunday, April 01, 2018

SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids

SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids: "We've already had one Blue Moon in January 2018, a month bookended by full Moons on the 2nd (02:24 UTC) and 31st (13:27 UTC). It's happening again in March, with full Moons on the 2nd (00:51 UTC) and 31st (12:37 UTC). The last time two Blue Moons occurred in such quick succession was January and March of 1999."

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Slacks of 24 hours at the beginning of the month and  ~12 hours around the end.

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Immersion (mathematics) - Wikipedia

Immersion (mathematics) - Wikipedia: "For example, the Möbius strip has non-trivial tangent bundle, so it cannot immerse in codimension 0 (in R2), though it embeds in codimension 1 (in R3).

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Orientability - Wikipedia

Orientability - Wikipedia: " a loop going around one way on the surface can never be continuously deformed (without overlapping itself) to a loop going around the opposite way."



 that is homeomorphic to the Möbius strip. Thus, for surfaces, the Möbius strip may be considered the source of all non-orientability.

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Wednesday, March 07, 2018

Topological group - Wikipedia

Topological group - Wikipedia: "The groups mentioned so far are all Lie groups, meaning that they are smooth manifolds in such a way that the group operations are smooth, not just continuous."



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