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Coup, William Cameron (American circus manager)
American businessman, cofounder and manager of P.T. Barnum’s “Greatest Show on Earth.”...
coupé (carriage)
four-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage that was based on the coach but was smaller and lighter in weight. While originally the word coupé described any cut-down coach body, it later became associated with a specific type of truncated coach body that came into general use in western Europe and America in the mid-18th century. A coupé usually contained one enclosed seat ...
coupe (carriage)
four-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage that was based on the coach but was smaller and lighter in weight. While originally the word coupé described any cut-down coach body, it later became associated with a specific type of truncated coach body that came into general use in western Europe and America in the mid-18th century. A coupé usually contained one enclosed seat ...
coupe de mariage (metalwork)
...cup might be shared by a number of persons for ceremonial drinking, symbolizing friendship and unity. Loving cups are often given as trophies to winners of games or other competitions. The French coupe de mariage is a somewhat shallow form of loving cup....
Couper, Archibald Scott (Scottish chemist)
Scottish chemist who, independently of August Kekule, proposed the tetravalency of carbon and the ability of carbon atoms to bond with one another....
Couper, Thomas (English bishop and author)
English bishop and author of a famous dictionary....
Couperin, Charles (French composer)
...a merchant and small landowner in Chaumes-en-Brie, France, was also the organist of the local abbey church, and Louis and his two younger brothers, François (c. 1631–1708/12) and Charles (1638–79), learned to play respectably on the violin, viol, harpsichord, and organ. Still, they might have remained provincial musicians but for Jacques Champion de......
Couperin, François (French composer [1668-1733])
French composer and harpsichordist, the most renowned of the Couperin dynasty of 17th- and 18th-century musicians. He was the nephew of Louis Couperin....
Couperin, François (French composer [1631-1708/12])
Couperin’s father, a merchant and small landowner in Chaumes-en-Brie, France, was also the organist of the local abbey church, and Louis and his two younger brothers, François (c. 1631–1708/12) and Charles (1638–79), learned to play respectably on the violin, viol, harpsichord, and organ. Still, they might have remained provincial musicians but for Jacques Champi...
Couperin Le Grand (French composer [1668-1733])
French composer and harpsichordist, the most renowned of the Couperin dynasty of 17th- and 18th-century musicians. He was the nephew of Louis Couperin....
Couperin, Louis (French composer)
French composer, organist, and harpsichordist, the first major member of the Couperin dynasty of musicians of the 17th and 18th centuries....
Couperus, Louis Marie Anne (Dutch author)
one of the greatest Dutch novelists of the 1880 literary revival....
Coupeville (Washington, United States)
town, seat (1881) of Island county, northwestern Washington, U.S., on Whidbey Island. One of the oldest towns in the state and originally called the Port of Sea Captains for the retired mariners who settled there, it was renamed for one of them, Captain Thomas Coupe, who staked a claim on the island in 1852. The town is now a resort community. Pop. (2000) 1,72...
Coupland, Douglas (Canadian journalist and novelist)
Canadian journalist and novelist best known for observations on modern-day American culture and for popularizing the term Generation X....
Coupland, Douglas Campbell (Canadian journalist and novelist)
Canadian journalist and novelist best known for observations on modern-day American culture and for popularizing the term Generation X....
couple (physics)
in mechanics, pair of equal parallel forces that are opposite in direction. The only effect of a couple is to produce or prevent the turning of a body. The turning effect, or moment, of a couple is measured by the product of the magnitude of either force and the perpendicular distance between the action lines of the forces....
couple dance (dance)
...or double file. Spanish influences are apparent, however, in the elaborations used in the double-file dances of the Southwest and Latin America. Spanish and Austrian influences probably inspired the couple dances of Latin America, for aboriginal dances juxtapose male and female partners only rarely, and never in overt courtship mime....
“Couple, Le” (work by Lilar)
...perspective, and the brilliant short essay “Théâtre et mythomanie” (1958; “Theatre and Mythomania”). Le Couple (1963; Aspects of Love in Western Society), perhaps her best work, is a neoplatonic idealization of love filtered through personal experience; in the same vein she later wrote highly critical es...
Couple, The (work by Lipchitz)
...translated some of these smaller pieces into sculptures on a more monumental scale, as in Figure (1926–30). With such transparents as The Couple (1928–29), Lipchitz attempted to express emotion instead of merely addressing formal concerns, as he had in his earlier works....
coupled oscillator (physics)
In the section on simple harmonic oscillators, the motion of a single particle held in place by springs was considered. In this section, the motion of a group of particles bound by springs to one another is discussed. The solutions of this seemingly academic problem have far-reaching implications in many fields of physics. For example, a system of particles held together by springs turns out to......
coupled substitution (chemistry)
...This is given in equation form as 2A2+ ←→ B3++ C+; the positive charge on each side is the same. Substitutions such as this are termed coupled substitutions. The plagioclase feldspar series exhibits complete solid solution, in the form of coupled substitutions, between its two end-members, albite (NaAlSi3O8...
coupled-cavity traveling-wave tube (electronics)
...finds its use in different applications. The helix TWT is distinct from other electron tubes, as it is the only one that does not use RF cavities. Because cavities have bandwidth limitations, the coupled-cavity TWT also is bandwidth-limited to typically 10 to 20 percent. The helix TWT, however, has no particular bandwidth limitations, and, for all practical purposes, an octave bandwidth (100......
coupler (train device)
device by which a locomotive is connected to a following car and by which succeeding cars in a train are linked. The first couplings were chains with solid buffers to help absorb shock during braking. Later, spring buffers were introduced, with screw couplings that permit two vehicles to be brought together so that buffer faces just touch, giving smooth starts and stops. Early U.S. railroads used ...
coupler (music)
Couplers, or “registers,” in some double-action instruments activate extra sets of reeds, one pitched an octave below the main set and another off-tuned from the main set to give a tremulant through “beating” (sound-wave interference). Other registers may include a high-octave set of reeds and a second tremulant. Accordions often encompass ranges of seven or eight......
coupler dog (musical instrument device)
...extension that reached down to the keys of the lower manual, they were made to rest entirely on the upper-manual keys; the lower-manual keys were then fitted with small upright pieces of wood called coupler dogs, which reached upward toward the underside of the upper-manual keys. The upper manual was constructed to slide forward and back by about 14 inch. When...
Couples (work by Updike)
...the focus of the work of J.D. Salinger and Richard Yates, as well as of John Updike’s Rabbit series (four novels from Rabbit, Run [1960] to Rabbit at Rest [1990]), Couples (1968), and Too Far to Go (1979), a sequence of tales about the quiet disintegration of a civilized marriage, a subject Updike revisited in a retrospective work,......
couplet (poetic form)
a pair of end-rhymed lines of verse that are self-contained in grammatical structure and meaning. A couplet may be formal (or closed), in which case each of the two lines is end-stopped, or it may be run-on (or open), with the meaning of the first line continuing to the second (this is called enjambment). Couplets are most frequently used as units of compositi...
couplet silicate (mineral)
any member of a group of compounds with structures that have two silicate tetrahedrons (a central silicon atom surrounded by four oxygen atoms at the corners of a tetrahedron) linked together. Because one oxygen atom is shared by two tetrahedrons, the chemical formula contains Si2O7, ...
Coupleux-Givelet synthesizer (musical instrument)
4. Instruments that were not intended for conventional live performance but instead were designed to read an encoded score automatically. The first of these was the Coupleux-Givelet synthesizer, which the inventors introduced in 1929 at the Paris Exposition. This instrument used a player-piano-like paper roll to “play” electronic circuits that generated the tone waveforms. Unlike a.....
coupling (machinery)
in machinery, a device that links two rotatable shafts. See hydraulic transmission; shaft coupling....
Coupling, J. J. (American scientist)
American communications engineer, scientist, and father of the communications satellite....
Coups de pilon (work by Diop)
Diop’s works in Coups de pilon (1956; “Pounding”), his only surviving collection, are angry poems of protest against European cultural values, enumerating the sufferings of his people first under the slave trade and then under the domination of colonial rule and calling for revolution to lead to a glorious future for Africa. That he was the most extreme of the Negritude...
Cour (people)
region on the Baltic seacoast, located south of the Western Dvina River and named after its inhabitants, the Latvian tribe of Curonians (Kurs, Cori, Cours; Latvian: Kursi). The duchy of Courland, formed in 1561, included this area as well as Semigallia (Zemgale), a region located east of Courland proper....
Cour Carrée (courtyard, Paris, France)
...wall, to buttress the western defenses. Over the following centuries many additions and renovations were made, and from the castle grew the present-day palace. From the original square, known as the Cour Carrée (Square Court), two galleries extend westward for about 1,640 feet (500 metres), one along the river and the other along the rue de Rivoli. In 1871, only 19 years after the huge.....
cour d’assises (French law)
...are, in many countries, tried by panels of two or more judges. Often such panels consist of lawyers and lay judges, as in Germany, where two laypersons sit with one to three jurists. The French cour d’assises, which hears serious criminal matters, is composed of three professional judges and nine lay assessors. Such “mixed courts” of professionals and ordinary citize...
Cour de Cassation (French law)
(French: “Court of Cassation,” or “Abrogation”), the highest court of criminal and civil appeal in France, with the power to quash (casser) the decisions of lower courts. The high court considers decisions only from the point of view of whether the lower court has applied the law correctly; it does not deal with the facts of a case, nor does it retry it. The app...
Cour de sûreté de l’État (French law)
...these courts are subject to the control of the Court of Cassation, as are the specialized professional courts, such as courts for industrial conciliation, courts-martial, and, from 1963 to 1981, the Court of State Security, which tried felonies and misdemeanours against national security. Very exceptionally, in cases of high treason, a High Court of Justice (Cour de Justice de la......
Cour des Aides (French law)
...corresponding to the offices of treasury. The old Chambre des Comptes had lost parts of its jurisdiction to more specialized courts in 1390, of which the Cour des Aides (board of excise) had provincial divisions set up at Toulouse in 1439 and at Rouen in 1450. A provincial parlement was definitively established at......
Cour des Comptes (French court)
Napoleon dismissed Barbé-Marbois in 1806 because his excessive advances to contractors in 1805 had caused a grave financial crisis. He was, however, appointed first president of the Cour des Comptes (an administrative court handling public accounts of the country) in 1808 and was made a senator and a count in 1813. When Napoleon’s fall became likely, Barbé-Marbois hastily and....
Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight (work by Rove)
...his departure from the White House, Rove became a columnist for Newsweek and worked as a television commentator. In 2010 he published the memoir Courage and Consequence: My Life As a Conservative in the Fight, in which he defended the Bush administration and denied various allegations against him, including claims that he smeared......
Courage, Mother (fictional character)
fictional character, the protagonist of the play Mother Courage and Her Children (1941) by Bertolt Brecht....
Courage, the Adventuress (work by Grimmelshausen)
Grimmelshausen’s continuations of Simplicissimus include Die Lanstörtzerin Courage (1669; Courage, the Adventuress)—which inspired Bertolt Brecht’s play Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1941; Mother Courage and Her Children)—and ...
Courage to Be, The (book by Tillich)
...concerning the meaning of human existence. His public lectures and books reached large audiences who did not usually show an interest in religious questions. In his most widely read books, The Courage to Be and Dynamics of Faith, he argued that the deepest concern of humans drives them into confrontation with a reality that transcends their own finite existence. Tillich’s.....
Courage Under Fire (film by Zwick)
...Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) preceded his acclaimed performance as a young soldier forced to testify about a battle during the Persian Gulf War in Courage Under Fire (1996). This portrayal attracted the attention of director Francis Ford Coppola, who cast Damon as a novice lawyer opposite Danny DeVito in The......
Courageous (yacht)
...He also purchased the Atlanta Braves major league baseball team in 1976 and the Atlanta Hawks professional basketball team in 1977. Turner was a noted yachtsman as well, and he piloted Courageous to win the America’s Cup in 1977. In 1986 he bought the MGM/UA Entertainment Company, which included the former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion-picture studio and its library of more ...
courant (dance)
court dance for couples, prominent in the late 16th century and fashionable in aristocratic European ballrooms, especially in France and England, for the next 200 years. It reputedly originated as an Italian folk dance with running steps. As a court dance it was performe...
courant (newspaper)
Forerunners of modern newsletters were the “corantos”—single-page collections of news items from foreign journals. They were circulated by the Dutch early in the 17th century, and English and French translations were published in Amsterdam. In the English American colonies, the Boston News-letter—credited also as the first American newspaper—appeared in......
Courant, Ernest D. (American physicist)
...required—the largest weighs approximately 40,000 tons. A means of increasing the energy without increasing the scale of the machines was provided by a demonstration in 1952 by Livingston, Ernest D. Courant, and H.S. Snyder of the technique of alternating-gradient focusing (sometimes called strong focusing). Synchrotrons incorporating this principle needed magnets only......
Courant, Richard (American mathematician)
German-born American mathematician and educator who made significant advances in the calculus of variations....
courante (dance)
court dance for couples, prominent in the late 16th century and fashionable in aristocratic European ballrooms, especially in France and England, for the next 200 years. It reputedly originated as an Italian folk dance with running steps. As a court dance it was performe...
Courantyne River (river, South America)
river in northern South America, rising in the Akarai Mountains and flowing generally northward for 450 miles (700 km) to the Atlantic Ocean near ...
Courbet, Gustave (French painter)
French painter and leader of the Realist movement. Courbet rebelled against the Romantic painting of his day, turning to everyday events for his subject matter. His huge shadowed canvases with their solid groups of figures, such as The Artist’s Studio (1855), drew sharp criticism from the establishment. From the 1860s a more sensuous and colou...
Courbet with a Black Dog (painting by Courbet)
...by copying the pictures of Diego Velázquez, José de Ribera, and other 17th-century Spanish painters. In 1844, when he was 25, after several unsuccessful attempts, his self-portrait Courbet with a Black Dog, painted in 1842, was accepted by the Salon—the only annual public exhibition of art in France, sponsored by the Académie des......
courbette (horsemanship)
...the impulse being upward; the passage, high-stepping trot in which the impulse is more upward than forward; the levade, in which the horse stands balanced on its hindlegs, its forelegs drawn in; the courvet, which is a jump forward in the levade position; and the croupade, ballotade, and capriole, a variety of spectacular airs in which the horse jumps and lands again in the same spot....
Courbevoie (France)
northwestern suburb of Paris, Hauts-de-Seine département, Île-de-France région, northern France. The suburb is bordered to the south by avenue du Général-de-Gaulle, a continuation of the Champs-Élysées. Owing partly to its proximity to the Seine, Courbevoie developed as an industrial su...
Courchevel (France)
winter sports resort, Savoie département, Rhône-Alpes région, southeastern France. It is situated in the commune of Saint-Bon-Tarentaise high on the south side of the Isère Valley, 57 mi (92 km) east-southeast of Chambéry by road. Courchevel and...
Courci, John de (Anglo-Norman conqueror)
Anglo-Norman conqueror of Ulster, who was a member of a celebrated Norman family of Oxfordshire and Somerset....
coureur de bois (French Canadian fur trader)
French Canadian fur trader of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Most of the coureur de bois traded illicitly (i.e., without the license required by the Quebec government). They sold brandy to First Nation people (Native Americans), which created ...
courgette (squash subspecies)
subspecies of Cucurbita pepo, dark green elongate summer squash in the gourd family, of great abundance in home gardens and supermarkets. The creeping vine has five-lobed leaves, tendrils, and large yellow flowers....
Couric, Katherine Anne (American broadcaster)
American broadcast journalist, best known as the longtime cohost of NBC’s Today show and as the first solo female anchor of a major network (CBS) evening news program....
Couric, Katie (American broadcaster)
American broadcast journalist, best known as the longtime cohost of NBC’s Today show and as the first solo female anchor of a major network (CBS) evening news program....
Courier of St. Petersburg, The (circus act)
...on horseback. The greatest exponent of this artistic mode of riding was the Englishman Andrew Ducrow, who was Astley’s manager during the last two decades of his life. One of his acts, “The Courier of St. Petersburg,” is still seen in the circus. In this act a rider straddles two cantering horses while other horses, bearing the flags of those countries that a courier would....
Courier, Paul-Louis (French scholar)
French classical scholar and pamphleteer, remembered for his brilliant style and antimonarchist writings following the Second Restoration of the Bourbons after the defeat of Napoleon (1815)....
courier problem (mathematics)
These are typified by the movements of bodies at given rates in which some position of these bodies is given and the time required for them to arrive at some other specified position is demanded....
Courier-Journal, The (American newspaper)
morning daily newspaper published in Louisville, Kentucky, long recognized as one of the outstanding regional newspapers of the United States....
courlan (bird)
(species Aramus guarauna), large swamp bird of the American tropics, sole member of the family Aramidae (order Gruiformes). The bird is about 70 cm (28 inches) long and is coloured brown with white spots. The limpkin’s most distinctive characteristics are its loud, prolonged, wailing cry and its peculiar halti...
Courland (historical region, Europe)
region on the Baltic seacoast, located south of the Western Dvina River and named after its inhabitants, the Latvian tribe of Curonians (Kurs, Cori, Cours; Latvian: Kursi). The duchy of Courland, formed in 1561, included this area as well as Semigallia (Zemgale), a region located east of Courland proper....
Courland Lagoon (gulf, Baltic Sea)
gulf of the Baltic Sea at the mouth of the Neman River, in Lithuania and Russia. The lagoon, with an area of 625 square miles (1,619 square km), is separated from the Baltic Sea by a narrow, dune-covered sandspit, the Curonian Spit (Lithuanian: Kuršiu Nerija; Russian: Kurskaya Kosa), 60 miles (100 km) long and 1...
Cournand, André F. (American physiologist)
French-American physician and physiologist who in 1956 shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Dickinson W. Richards and Werner Forssmann for discoveries concerning heart catheterization and circulato...
Cournand, Andre Frédéric (American physiologist)
French-American physician and physiologist who in 1956 shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Dickinson W. Richards and Werner Forssmann for discoveries concerning heart catheterization and circulato...
Cournot, Antoine-Augustin (French economist and mathematician)
French economist and mathematician. Cournot was the first economist who, with competent knowledge of both subjects, endeavoured to apply mathematics to the treatment of economics. His main work in economics is Recherches sur les principes mathématiques de la théorie des richesses (1838; Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theo...
courol (bird)
(Leptosomus discolor), little-known bird of Madagascar and the neighbouring Comoros, named for its superficial resemblance to cuckoos but usually deemed the sole member of the family Leptosomatidae (sometimes treated as a subfamily of the Coraciidae [rollers]). It is about 43 cm (17 inches) long. Males are iridescent...
Couroupita guianensis (tree)
(Couroupita guianensis), tall, soft-wooded tree, of the family Lecythidaceae, native to northeastern South America and notable for its large, spherical woody fruit, which resembles a rusty cannonball. The tree is also cultivated in the southern r...
Courrèges, André (French fashion designer)
dress designer who first made a reputation in the Parisian fashion world of the 1960s for futuristic, youth-oriented styles....
“Courrier-Sud” (work by Saint-Exupéry)
...for heroic action and a new literary theme. His works exalt perilous adventures at the cost of life as the highest realization of man’s vocation. In his first book, Courrier-Sud (1929; Southern Mail, 1933), his new man of the skies, airmail pilot Jacques Bernis, dies in the desert of Rio de Oro. His second novel, Vol de nuit (1931; Night Flight, 1932), was......
Courrières mining disaster (French history)
underground explosion and fire that took place in a French mine on March 10, 1906. The mining disaster, one of Europe’s worst, killed 1,099 people; hundreds more were injured....
Cours d’analyse de l’École Polytechnique (work by Jordan)
...groups and applied these groups to algebraic equations and to the study of the symmetries of certain geometric figures. Jordan published his lectures and researches on analysis in Cours d’analyse de l’École Polytechnique, 3 vol. (1882; “Analysis Course from the École Polytechnique”). In the third edition (1909–15) of this...
Cours d’architecture (work by Blondel)
...set forth the rationalist philosophy of the Enlightenment. As his own significant contribution to 18th-century learning, Blondel compiled his lectures and plans in the monumental Cours d’architecture (1771–77; “Architecture Course”); the 12-volume work was completed (and its 6 volumes of plates combined into 3 volumes) by the French architect...
Cours de contrepoint et de fugue (treatise by Cherubini)
Cherubini wrote several treatises, including the celebrated Cours de contrepoint et de fugue (1835; “Course in Counterpoint and Fugue”), which is far more conservative musically than Cherubini’s actual music....
“Cours de linguistique générale” (Saussure’s lectures)
...Sanskrit (1901–11) and of general linguistics (1907–11) at the University of Geneva. His name is affixed, however, to the Cours de linguistique générale (1916; Course in General Linguistics), a reconstruction of his lectures on the basis of notes by students carefully prepared by his junior colleagues Charles Bally and Albert Séchehaye. The......
“Cours de philosophie positive” (work by Comte)
...concluded that he redelivered it at the Royal Athenaeum during 1829–30. The following 12 years were devoted to his publication (in six volumes) of his philosophy in a work entitled Cours de philosophie positive (1830–42; “Course of Positive Philosophy”; Eng. trans. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte)....
Cours d’Économie Politique (work by Pareto)
Pareto’s first work, Cours d’économie politique (1896–97), included his famous but much-criticized law of income distribution, a complicated mathematical formulation in which Pareto attempted to prove that the distribution of incomes and wealth in society is not random and that a consistent pattern appears throughout history, in all parts of the world and i...
course (navigation)
science of directing a craft by determining its position, course, and distance traveled. Navigation is concerned with finding the way to the desired destination, avoiding collisions, conserving fuel, and meeting schedules....
course (brickwork)
...areas by the use of salvaged Roman brick. The 14th-century bricks were not as precise as the Roman and were often distorted in firing. Therefore, large lime-mortar joints were needed for regular course lines. Bricks became nearly standardized at something close to the present size, about 20.3 × 9.5 × 5.7 centimetres (8 × 3.75 × 2.25 inches), and bonding systems based...
course (knitting)
...and double knits—and the warp knits—including tricot, raschel, and milanese. In knitting, a wale is a column of loops running lengthwise, corresponding to the warp of woven fabric; a course is a crosswise row of loops, corresponding to the filling....
course comique (film genre)
Before World War I, European cinema was dominated by France and Italy. At Pathé Frères, director general Ferdinand Zecca perfected the course comique, a uniquely Gallic version of the chase film, which inspired Mack Sennett’s Keystone Kops, while the immensely popular Max Linder created a comic persona that would deeply influence the work ...
course contre la montre (cycling)
(“race against the watch”), in bicycle racing, a form of competition in which individual cyclists or teams are sent out at intervals to cover a specified distance on a road course. The contestant with the fastest time for the distance wins....
Course de Périgueux (race)
...France to other countries, became the norm until 1903 when authorities stopped the Paris-to-Madrid race at Bordeaux because of the large number of accidents. The first closed-circuit road race, the Course de Périgueux, was run in 1898, a distance of 145 km on one lap. Such racing, governed by the Automobile Club de France (founded in 1895), came to prevail in Europe except for England,.....
Course in General Linguistics (Saussure’s lectures)
...Sanskrit (1901–11) and of general linguistics (1907–11) at the University of Geneva. His name is affixed, however, to the Cours de linguistique générale (1916; Course in General Linguistics), a reconstruction of his lectures on the basis of notes by students carefully prepared by his junior colleagues Charles Bally and Albert Séchehaye. The......
Course of Empire, The (work by Cole)
...mainly in Italy. He lived in Florence with the American sculptor Horatio Greenough. When Cole returned to the United States, he painted five huge canvases for a series titled The Course of Empire (1836). These paintings are allegories on the progress of mankind based on the count de Volney’s Ruines; ou, méditations sur les......
Course of Modern Analysis, A (book by Whittaker)
...were in mathematical physics as well as in dynamical problems, such as the three-body problem, and his work on differential equations and functions had great influence. His A Course of Modern Analysis (1902) was the first book in English to present the theory of functions of a complex variable at an undergraduate level. It advanced the study of such functions and......
Course of Popular Lectures (work by Wright)
Wright helped edit Owen’s New Harmony Gazette and, defying convention, took to the lecture platform. Her Course of Popular Lectures (1829 and 1836) attacked religion, church influence in politics, and authoritarian education and defended equal rights for women and the replacement of legal marriage by a union based on moral obligation. In 1829 she and Owen settled in New York C...
Course of Pure Mathematics, A (work by Hardy)
Hardy was the author or coauthor of more than 300 papers and 11 books, including A Course of Pure Mathematics (1908), which ran into 10 editions and transformed university teaching, Inequalities (1934) with Littlewood, The Theory of Numbers (1938) with E.M. Wright, and Divergent Series (1948).......
course of study (education)
Many problems of educational practice that raise philosophical issues fall under this heading. Which subjects are most worth teaching or learning? What constitutes knowledge of them, and is such knowledge discovered or constructed? Should there be a single, common curriculum for all students, or should different students study different subjects, depending on their needs or interests, as Dewey......
Course of Theoretical Physics (work by Landau)
...although many speakers could not cope with the devastating level of criticism considered normal at its meetings. Over the years, Landau and Lifshits published their multivolume Course of Theoretical Physics, a major learning tool for several generations of research students worldwide....
courser (bird)
any of 9 or 10 species of Old World shorebirds belonging to the family Glareolidae (order Charadriiformes), which also includes the pratincoles. Most live in semideserts, where they chase insects afoot; they can, however, fly strongly with their short wings. The best-known species is the cream-coloured courser (Cursorius cursor) of Afr...
Courseulles (town, France)
resort town and marina, Basse-Normandie région, northwestern France. It is situated on the English Channel and on the right bank of the Seulles River, some 12 miles (19 km) north-northwest of Caen and 8 miles (13 km) east of...
Courseulles-sur-Mer (town, France)
resort town and marina, Basse-Normandie région, northwestern France. It is situated on the English Channel and on the right bank of the Seulles River, some 12 miles (19 km) north-northwest of Caen and 8 miles (13 km) east of...
courseware (computing)
One of the more difficult aspects of instructional computers is the availability and development of software, or computer programs. Courseware can be bought as a fully developed package from a software company, but the program provided this way may not suit the particular needs of the individual class or curriculum. A courseware template may be purchased, which provides a general format for......
coursing (sport)
the pursuit of game by hounds hunting by sight and not by scent. In modern, organized coursing competitions, two greyhounds at a time pursue one hare. The dogs are judged on performance as well as on their success in catching the hare: points are awarded for outracing the other dog and catching up with the hare, for turning it at a ri...