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481200
Caption: Liu Hui's 'Tangram' proof that the sum of the squares on the sides of a right triangle equals the square on the hypotenuse.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 35.68 MB
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481001
Caption: Euclid's proposition that the base angles in an isosceles triangle are equal may have been named the Bridge of Asses.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 16.84 MB
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481298
Caption: Pascal proved that the 3 points formed by intersecting the 6 lines connecting any 6 distinct points on a circle are collinear.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 41.02 MB
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481068
Caption: The three families of conic sections (ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola) result from intersecting a plane with a double cone.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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File Size: 20.18 MB
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507118
Caption: The topological concept of a continuous function
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 29.31 MB
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481057
Caption: The eye connects to points on the reality plane by sight lines that intersect with the picture plane, generating the drawing.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 29.31 MB
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126565
Caption: Small alien landing and displaying the theory of relativity to snail
Artist: Igor Kopelnitsky
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 46.11 MB
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41131
Caption: Small Woman With Key And Door Into Space
Artist: Warren Gebert
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 29.96 MB
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481191
Caption: The figure illustrates the equivalence of the Chinese complementary rectangles theorem and the Greek similar triangles theorem.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 17.36 MB
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506933
Caption: The Koch snowflake is continuous but nowhere differentiable; that is, at no point on the curve does there exist a tangent line
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 36.55 MB
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433176
Caption: Educational blocks on desk
Artist: Janusz Kapusta
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 32.32 MB
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38252
Caption: Hand Under Funnel With Numbers
Artist: Timothy John
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 25.86 MB
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481437
Caption: The ancient Greeks arranged pebbles in patterns to discern arithmetical, as well as mystical, relationships between numbers.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 18.60 MB
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481021
Caption: Each point on the Riemann sphere corresponds to a point on the plane. The ray tangent to the north pole corresponds to infinity.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 27.60 MB
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481148
Caption: Dudeney puzzle (K3,3 bipartite graph): the houses cannot connect to the separate utilities such that no service pipes intersect.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 33.25 MB
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507143
Caption: Pappus's theorem proved the formula for the volume of the solid torus obtained by rotating the disk of radius a around line L
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 32.16 MB
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481498
Caption: The Konigsberg bridge problem led Leonhard Euler, a Swiss mathematician, to begin the development of graph theory.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 41.95 MB
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481343
Caption: If a saddlepoint does not exist for a payoff matrix, a probabilistic strategy is optimal to maximize expected (average) rewards.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 41.86 MB
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520764
Caption: Student daydreaming in math class
Artist: Anthony Bari
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 49.96 MB
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481246
Caption: In variable-sum games each payoff depends on both players' actions, so each matrix entry lists two payoffs, one for each player.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 20.93 MB
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481026
Caption: The first reduction for an n-person voting game theory, illustrating the strategies least suitable for each participant.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 39.99 MB
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513515
Caption: Report card with check marks next to subject
Artist: Chad J. Shaffer
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 37.51 MB
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481267
Caption: Three models of hyperbolic geometry: the Klein-Beltrami model, the Poincare disk model, and the Poincare upper half-plane model.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 36.16 MB
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481272
Caption: The second reduction for an n-person voting game theory, illustrating the strategies least suitable for each participant.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 35.17 MB
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481417
Caption: A saddlepoint, or entry, in a payoff matrix at which the expected gain of each participant has the highest guaranteed payoff.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 41.86 MB
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480987
Caption: Satellite dish shaped like a portion of a paraboloid in order to focus transmission signals onto the pickup receiver (feedhorn).
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 33.99 MB
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481294
Caption: Illustration of the Vigenere Table, using 'VVVRBACP' as the cipher and 'COVERCOVER' as the key, resulting in 'THANKYOU.'
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 31.62 MB
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481512
Caption: Graph of Moore's law, a 1965 observation that the number of transistors on a computer chip doubles about every 18 months.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 28.34 MB
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481161
Caption: The prisoners' dilemma in game theory demonstrates how communication among participants can drastically alter their strategy.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 41.86 MB
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5452
Caption: Couple looking at love equation
Artist: Nikolai Punin
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 50.08 MB
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126840
Caption: Man catching numbers
Artist: Alberto Ruggieri
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 97.93 MB
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481142
Caption: The ADFGVX cipher, employed by the German army in World War I.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 28.23 MB
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432787
Caption: Man writing numbers on notepad
Artist: Paulo Buchinho
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 50.53 MB
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481127
Caption: The Hawk-Dove model of game theory, illustrating the costs and benefits of fighting over resources.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 71.21 MB
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481097
Caption: Pay-off matrix showing bourgeois, or mixed attack/retreat behaviour, as the most stable strategy for a population.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 39.01 MB
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433307
Caption: Justice and science collage
Artist: Richard Tuschman
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 51.14 MB
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516523
Caption: Silhouette of boy's profile with educational imagery, space shuttle, ecology, college facade on wrinkled school paper.
Artist: Roy Scott
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 52.22 MB
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40869
Caption: Computer Blasts Numbers At Man And Dog
Artist: Steve Dininno
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 29.94 MB
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433601
Caption: Person with gears inside head
Artist: Leon Zernitsky
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 50.68 MB
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516516
Caption: Silhouette of young woman with educational imagery, space shuttle, ecology, college facade on wrinkled school paper.
Artist: Roy Scott
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 52.22 MB
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5357
Caption: Numbers and folding ruler
Artist: Richard Tuschman
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 32.46 MB
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481211
Caption: During WWI, the U.S. Army Signal Corps rotated the inner ring of this cipher disk to encrypt messages in the field quickly.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 41.86 MB
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315386
Caption: Man opening curtain full of equations
Artist: Doriano Solinas
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 50.30 MB
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5105
Caption: Businesspeople and books
Artist: Jude Maceren
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 35.25 MB
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433323
Caption: Human head and knowledge collage
Artist: Richard Tuschman
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 57.45 MB
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494870
Caption: Albert Einstein riding a bicycle
Artist: Chris Angrisani
Release: Not Released
File Size: 79.30 MB
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8087
Caption: Person writing with pencil in head
Artist: Todd Davidson
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 62.67 MB
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512132
Caption: Businessman looking at computer monitor of formulas
Artist: Doriano Solinas
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 50.10 MB
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433571
Caption: Businessman with financial gears in head
Artist: Leon Zernitsky
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 50.21 MB
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84281
Caption: Calculators with accordian-like bar code
Artist: Yves Lefevre
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 52.53 MB
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6419
Caption: Businessman with calipers on head
Artist: Pedro Scassa
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 51.33 MB
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46748
Caption: Lightning bolts coming from globe
Artist: Chris Spollen
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 30.14 MB
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506372
Caption: Student looking at maps and symbols on signposts
Artist: Doriano Solinas
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 50.04 MB
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83528
Caption: Montage of university icons including professor, chalkboard, and students
Artist: Boris Lyubner
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 54.24 MB
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83288
Caption: Woman In Front Of Pie Chart
Artist: Stephanie Carter
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 64.02 MB
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84541
Caption: Finger pointing at man with a calculator-shaped head
Artist: Igor Kopelnitsky
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 29.04 MB
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516157
Caption: Collage of life cycle of a person education
Artist: Fanatic Studio
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 50.99 MB