Universal probability bound — A universal probability bound is a probabilistic threshold whose existence is asserted by William A. Dembski and is used by him in his works promoting intelligent design. It is defined as A degree of improbability below which a specified event of … Wikipedia
Hubbert peak theory — Hubbert peak redirects here. For the episode of The West Wing, see The Hubbert Peak. M. King Hubbert s original 1956 prediction of world petroleum production rates … Wikipedia
Current sea level rise — This article is about the current and future rise in sea level associated with global warming. For sea level changes in Earth s history, see Sea level#Changes through geologic time. Sea level measurements from 23 long tide gauge records in… … Wikipedia
Systolic geometry — In mathematics, systolic geometry is the study of systolic invariants of manifolds and polyhedra, as initially conceived by Charles Loewner, and developed by Mikhail Gromov and others, in its arithmetic, ergodic, and topological manifestations.… … Wikipedia
Doomsday argument — World population from 10,000 BC to AD 2000 The Doomsday argument (DA) is a probabilistic argument that claims to predict the number of future members of the human species given only an estimate of the total number of humans born so far. Simply… … Wikipedia
Orders of magnitude (numbers) — The logarithmic scale can compactly represent the relationship among variously sized numbers. This list contains selected positive numbers in increasing order, including counts of things, dimensionless quantity and probabilities. Each number is… … Wikipedia
Polyomino — The 18 one sided pentominoes, including 6 mirrored pairs … Wikipedia
Dark matter — Not to be confused with antimatter, dark energy, dark fluid or dark flow. For other uses, see Dark Matter (disambiguation) … Wikipedia
Matched filter — In telecommunications, a matched filter (originally known as a North filter[1]) is obtained by correlating a known signal, or template, with an unknown signal to detect the presence of the template in the unknown signal. This is equivalent to… … Wikipedia
Divergence of the sum of the reciprocals of the primes — The sum of the reciprocals of all prime numbers diverges, that is: This was proved by Leonhard Euler in 1737, and strengthens Euclid s 3rd century BC result that there are infinitely many prime numbers. There is a variety of proofs of Euler s… … Wikipedia
Game complexity — Combinatorial game theory has several ways of measuring game complexity. This article describes five of them: state space complexity, game tree size, decision complexity, game tree complexity, and computational complexity. Contents 1 Measures of… … Wikipedia