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Marriage. A couple getting married during a church wedding ceremony. (religion, ceremony, bride, groom)

The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church

Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

July, 2006, Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-121. See attached for full caption information.

Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?

Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)

Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society

12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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Bessel function gamma function hypergeometric function elliptic function function logistic function Riemann zeta function recursive function harmonic function Lagrangian function exponential function Hamiltonian function integral transform propositional function trigonometric function

Key People

Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker

British mathematician

Quiz

Equations written on blackboard

Numbers and Mathematics