His interest in the formal study of religion waned when he was sixteen and he substituted for it an interest in Asian affairs.

His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic.

With the Prior Analytics, Aristotle is credited with the earliest study of formal logic, and his conception of it was the dominant form of Western logic until 19th century advances in mathematical logic.

amator, " lover ") is generally considered a person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science, without pay and often without formal training.

Significant amounts of energy and time were devoted to support and foster formal study of the balalaika, from which highly skilled ensemble groups such as the Osipov State Balalaika Orchestra emerged.

It was increasingly recognized as a formal division of theological study during the 20th century.

The study of mathematical proof is particularly important in logic, and has applications to automated theorem proving and formal verification of software.

Hence for both logic and mathematics, the different formal categories are the objects of study, not the sensible objects themselves.

After this formal education, Elizabeth spent the next nine years tending to domestic duties, but with her lively mind, energy and vigour, the prospect of a solely domestic existence would not satisfy her, so she continued to study Latin and arithmetic in the mornings and also read widely.

Formalist film theory is a theory of film study that is focused on the formal, or technical, elements of a film: i. e., the lighting, scoring, sound and set design, use of color, shot composition, and editing.

The mathematical roots of the idea of fractals have been traced through a formal path of published works, starting in the 17th century with notions of recursion, then moving through increasingly rigorous mathematical treatment of the concept to the study of continuous but not differentiable functions in the 19th century, and on to the coining of the word fractal in the 20th century with a subsequent burgeoning of interest in fractals and computer-based modelling in the 21st century.

The formal study of grammar is an important part of education for children from a young age through advanced learning, though the rules taught in schools are not a " grammar " in the sense most linguists use the term, particularly as they are often prescriptive rather than descriptive.

Despite the formal disapproval of religious authority, the segregation of women in Muslim societies and the strong emphasis on male virility leads adolescent males and unmarried young men to seek sexual outlets with boys younger than themselves — in one study in Morocco, with boys in the age-range 7 to 13.

The field includes both the mathematical study of logic and the applications of formal logic to other areas of mathematics.

The unifying themes in mathematical logic include the study of the expressive power of formal systems and the deductive power of formal proof systems.

The mathematical field of category theory uses many formal axiomatic methods, and includes the study of categorical logic, but category theory is not ordinarily considered a subfield of mathematical logic.

Objects of study in model theory are models for formal languages which are structures that give meaning to the sentences of these formal languages.

Natural language is distinguished from constructed languages and formal languages such as computer-programming languages or the " languages " used in the study of formal logic, especially mathematical logic.

The formal design and study of type systems is known as type theory.

A formal academic study of the Patterson film was conducted by Dmitri Donskoy, Chief of the Dept.

A design pattern in architecture and computer science is a formal way of documenting a solution to a design problem in a particular field of expertise.

The study of the field increased in popularity since the early 1990s with research work concentrating on architectural styles ( patterns ), architecture description languages, architecture documentation, and formal methods.

IEEE 1471-2000, Recommended Practice for Architecture Description of Software-Intensive Systems, was the first formal standard in the area of software architecture.

He added a 15th century style gatehouse to the castle's medieval structures, as well as a formal garden and a residential wing which featured the " brittle, thin walls and grids of windows " that were to become the hallmark of Elizabethan architecture in later decades.

The formal vocabulary of Ancient Greek architecture, in particular the division of architectural style into three defined orders: the Doric Order, the Ionic Order and the Corinthian Order, was to have profound effect on Western architecture of later periods.

The formal elements of classical Greek architecture were applied to temples for gods never worshipped in Greece.

In the 20th century, the widespread use of the telephone and ( later ) automobiles, the increasing casualness of society led to the decline of formal reception rooms in domestic architecture in English-speaking countries.

The principal elements of Honegger's style are: Bachian counterpoint, driving rhythms, melodic amplitude, highly coloristic harmonies, an impressionistic use of orchestral sonorities, and a concern for formal architecture.

Aged fifteen, he began the formal study of drawing, but on the insistence of his father he changed to architecture.

The United States is the founding country of the formal profession named landscape architecture.

* Architecture description language, a formal language for architecture description and representation

Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field.

MIL-STD-1750A or 1750A is the formal definition of a 16-bit computer instruction set architecture ( ISA ), including both required and optional components, as described by the military standard document MIL-STD-1750A ( 1980 ).

McAllister got his start designing fashionable restaurants in Southern California which lead to a series of Streamline Moderne drive-ins during the 1930s ; though he did not have formal training as an architect, he had been offered a scholarship at the architecture school at the University of Pennsylvania because of his skill.

Thus John James can be seen as one of the intermediaries who made Baroque Continental practice in architecture, decorative painting and formal garden planning available to English patrons and craftsmen.

Other Rothschild houses in Buckinghamshire were all designed in the more formal styles of architecture, either the classical renaissance such as Mentmore or that of a French chateau as at Waddesdon Manor.

The architecture was typically simple and formal, welcoming patrons to enter through a prominent doorway, nearly always accessed via a staircase.

Recent research has focused on virtualization, security, usability, formal verification, formal semantics of programming languages, computer architecture, natural language processing, wireless networking, biometric identification, routing, positioning systems and has achieved the top ratings in recent UK Research Assessment Exercise evaluations.

Systems developed by people with no formal architecture or programming training often fall into this pattern.

Palladio's work was strongly based on the symmetry, perspective and values of the formal classical temple architecture of the Ancient Greeks and Romans.

Nevertheless, Olmsted, an advocate of " naturalistic " architecture and landscape design famously clashed with Hunt in 1863 over Hunt's proposal for " Scholar's Gate ", a formal entrance to Central Park at 60th Street and Fifth Avenue.