William Newcomb (died 1999), a professor and theoretical physicist at the University of California's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, is best known as the creator of Newcomb's paradox, devised in 1960.
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During the conversation, Porter convinced Newcomb to become partners and create a company that would enable an individual with a personal computer to trade stocks from home—to disintermediate stock buying.
Newcomb named the lightweight spaceship he designed "Lauryad," after a spaceship in the novel Flight, by American novelist, poet and film actress Vanna Bonta, whom Newcomb credited with inspiring the endeavor.
In 2012, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization demonstrated through computational modeling the potential for this phenomenon to occur in power transmission networks where power generation is decentralized.
Writing in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, David Hu and John Bush state that Denny's paradox "rested on two flawed assumptions.
He married A. Josepha Newcomb, the daughter of astronomer and mathematician Simon Newcomb.
It is named after Richard Fenno who discussed this in his 1978 book Home Style: House Members in Their Districts.
Moore is also remembered for drawing attention to the peculiar inconsistency involved in uttering a sentence such as "It is raining but I do not believe it is raining."—a puzzle which is now commonly called "Moore's paradox."
In 2009, researchers from the National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan introduced new concepts of “kidnapped airfoils” and “circulating horsepower” to explain the swimming capabilities of the swordfish.
Smale's paradox can be done using isometric embedding of .
Newcomb was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia and with his parents and a brother, in 1839 he emigrated to Victoria, Texas.
Josiah Turner Newcomb (June 19, 1868 in Owosso, Shiawassee County, Michigan – January 3, 1944 in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
He has played and recorded with Australian jazz and improvising musicians Simon Barker, Steve Newcomb, Brett Hirst, Matt McMahon, Scott Tinkler, John Morrison and John Hoffman.
Francesco Alberoni, Falling in love, New York, Random House, 1983.
James Haar, Anthony Newcomb, Massimo Ossi, Glenn Watkins, Nigel Fortune, Joseph Kerman, Jerome Roche: "Madrigal", Grove Music Online, ed.
In 1916 Charles I. D. Looff, who built Coney Island's first carousel, started construction on an adjacent pier known as the Pleasure Pier, also called Newcomb Pier, for use as an amusement park.
He corresponded with Georg Cantor and Gottlob Frege, and took a close interest in the paradoxes related to Russell's paradox, formulating the card paradox version of the liar paradox.
Schrödinger's cat, a thought experiment relating to quantum physics
Self-referential statements mention themselves or their components, often producing logical paradoxes, such as Quine's paradox.