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A poem published in 1925 by Thomas Stearns Eliot, 1888 - 1965, commonly referred to as T.S. Eliot.

Emmy Noether, 1882 - 1935, was a German mathematician who worked in abstract algebra and theoretical physics. Albert Einstein called her the most important woman in mathematics.

George boole, 1815 - 1864, English mathematician, after whom the system of Boolean Logic system is named.

Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, 1753 - 1814, was an American-British physicist, who founded the Royal Institution, and the Rumford Prize, for outstanding work in the field of Heat and Light. He is best known for his work in thermodynamics.

A robot with a human appearance.

Deism is a philosophical position which holds open a potential rational determination of the existence of a single creator of the universe, but rejects the assertions that this knowledge is obtainable from religious scriptures and church authority.

John Nash, 1928 - 2015, was an American mathematician whose work in fields like Game Theory was revolutionary. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994.

The Larch

The philosophical tradition of empiricism is that we know through experience. The ontology (defining what can be known) of empiricism is that the things we experience are the things that exist. The empiricist methodology simply requires the presentation of experienced facts.

MDC: More Developed Countries. A term used in preference to 'First World', or 'The West', to refer to OECD countries, or wealthy, industrialised nations.

Feldspars are a primary mineral group in the Earth's crust, making up around 60% of the rock.

A card trick that is simple to perform, but baffling for the victims.

Fermat, Pierre de, 1601 - 1665, French mathematician.

Of human form. From 'anthro' = human, morphic = shape.

(Linguistics) The genitive case indicates possession.

George Polya, 1887 - 1985, Hungarian mathematician, who made fundamental contributions to heuristics, combinatorics and number theory.

(Liinguistics) The indirect object of a sentence takes the dative case.

Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, 1736 - 1813, Italian mathematician and astronomer.

Ibn al-Haytham, 965 - 1040, mathematician, Eygpt, who calculated the integral of a function to find the volume by rotation about an ayis of symmetry.

Dr Who is a very popular TV Series by the BBC. It was first broadcast in 1963, and has run fairly consistently since then.