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Descartes number, a number that is "almost" a perfect number. Descartes Prize, the European prize for excellence in scientific research and science communication. Descartes' rule of signs, a mathematical technique devised by René Descartes that is used to find the number of positive, negative, and imaginary roots of a polynomial.
Biography. Kraft was born in the Bohemian town of Rokycany of a German Bohemian ethnic family which had assimilated into Czech. He received early musical education on the cello from his father before going to university in Vienna to study law. He soon obtained a position in the Imperial Hofkapelle. In 1778 he was appointed cellist in Prince ...
Cubic. Snark. Table of graphs and parameters. In the mathematical field of graph theory, a Descartes snark is an undirected graph with 210 vertices and 315 edges. It is a snark, first discovered by William Tutte in 1948 under the pseudonym Blanche Descartes. [1]
Descartes is a heavily worn lunar impact crater that is located in the rugged south-central highlands of the Moon. To the southwest is the crater Abulfeda. It is named after the French philosopher, mathematician and physicist René Descartes. The rim of Descartes survives only in stretches, and is completely missing in the north.
Kraft (surname) Kraft is a German surname that means "strength", "power". [1] Notable people with the surname include: Adam Kraft (c. 1455–1509), German sculptor. Anders Kraft (born 1968), Swedish journalist and news anchor. Antonín Kraft (1749–1820), Czech cellist and composer. Charles H. Kraft (born 1932), anthropologist.
In coding theory, the Kraft–McMillan inequality gives a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a prefix code [1] (in Leon G. Kraft's version) or a uniquely decodable code (in Brockway McMillan 's version) for a given set of codeword lengths. Its applications to prefix codes and trees often find use in computer science and ...
Service. Descartes at Sebastopol, during the first day's attack by the allied fleet and armies of France and England on 17 October 1854. She took part in the Crimean War, and was used to ferry wounded from Italy. On 17 October 1855, she took part in the Battle of Kinburn . She was eventually broken up in Brest in July 1867.
Kraft Foods Group, Inc. Logo used since 2012. Kraft Foods Group, Inc. ( doing business as Kraft Foods Group) was an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate, [2] split from Kraft Foods Inc. on October 1, 2012, and was headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It became part of Kraft Heinz on July 2, 2015.