The idea of Erdős – Bacon numbers has been written about by Simon Singh in the British media and Benjamin Rosenbaum, among others, in the blogosphere.

The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.

The basic idea of his proof is that a proposition that holds of x if x = n for some natural number n can be called a definition for n, and that the set

Here, the idea was to map mathematical notation to a natural number ( using a Gödel numbering ).

While he supported the idea of government by an all-powerful sage, ruling as an Emperor, his ideas contained a number of elements to limit the power of rulers.

The basic idea is to use CERT to perform the large number of tasks needed in emergencies.

The following diagram illustrates the general idea of the key exchange by using colours instead of a very large number.

The project was started by Alex Jarrett in February 1996 because he " liked the idea of visiting a location represented by a round number such as 43 ° 00 ' 00 " N 72 ° 00 ' 00 " W. What would be there?

From Weierstrass he derives the idea that we generate the concept of number by counting a certain collection of objects.

This idea can work fairly well when the Reynolds number is high.

The idea that the number of valences of a given element was invariant was a key component of Kekulé's version of structural chemistry.

The large number of surviving manuscripts of The Reckoning of Time, copied to meet the Carolingian requirement that all priests should study the computus, indicates that many, if not most, priests were exposed to the idea of the sphericity of the Earth.

In the latter half of his career Hayek made a number of contributions to social and political philosophy, which he based on his views on the limits of human knowledge, and the idea of spontaneous order in social institutions.

While there were a number of precursors to Gaia theory, the first scientific form of this idea was proposed as the Gaia hypothesis by James Lovelock, a UK chemist, in 1970.

The idea of the " number " concept evolving gradually over time is supported by the existence of languages which preserve the distinction between " one ", " two ", and " many ", but not of numbers larger than two.

The fundamental idea is that, once the expensive job of building the elevator is complete, an indefinite number of loads can be transported into orbit at minimal cost.

Although a substantial number of colonies had been designed or subject to provide economic profit ( mostly through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ), Fieldhouse suggests that in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in places such as Africa and Asia, this idea is not necessarily valid:

The idea that specifically the interdependence between parts would have implications for the origins of living things was raised by writers starting with Pierre Gassendi in the mid 17th century and John Wilkins, who wrote ( citing Galen ), " Now to imagine, that all these things, according to their several kinds, could be brought into this regular frame and order, to which such an infinite number of Intentions are required, without the contrivance of some wise Agent, must needs be irrational in the highest degree.

The gesture was originally the idea of outfielder Ken Griffey, Jr., who sought Rachel Robinson's permission to wear the number.

Gildas Hamel, drawing on the Book of Jonah and Greco-Roman sources — including Greek vases and the accounts of Apollonius of Rhodes, Gaius Valerius Flaccus and Orphic Argonautica — identifies a number of shared motifs, including the names of the heroes, the presence of a dove, the idea of " fleeing " like the wind and causing a storm, the attitude of the sailors, the presence of a sea-monster or dragon threatening the hero or swallowing him, and the form and the word used for the " gourd " ( kikayon ).

That spring, according to Mullis, he was driving his vehicle late one night with his girlfriend, who was also a chemist at Cetus, when he had the idea to use a pair of primers to bracket the desired DNA sequence and to copy it using DNA polymerase, a technique which would allow a small strand of DNA to be copied almost an infinite number of times.

Scribe was revolutionary in a number of ways, not least that it introduced the idea of styles separated from the marked up document, and of a grammar controlling the usage of descriptive elements.

# Quantity of parenthood: an idea that influences the number of children one has.

Hence, an entire line of program code could express the same idea a small number of characters that other programming languages might easily take 5 to 10 times as many characters to express.

The Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler pioneered the modern approach to congruence in about 1750, when he explicitly introduced the idea of congruence modulo a number N.

`` It was Brenner's idea '', Jess mumbled, dabbing at his nose.

He had no idea which was up and which was down.

Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.

Despite the clarity of his presentation, his idea was not of Einsteinian calibre.

To get an idea of the embarrassment and chagrin that was heaped upon Wright and Olgivanna, we should bear in mind that the raids were sometimes led by Miriam in person.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

Their policy ran counter to the traditional idea that a good fighter was usually a libertine, and that in sex affairs `` God-given passion '' was a proof of manliness.

Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.

The idea was not even suggested because political expediency prevailed over wisdom.

He had no idea where he was.

He realized that he had no idea where the telephone was.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

While Mr. Blatz was putting up the pegboards and starting the workbench, Mr. Crombie told him of this idea about paneling the whole end of the cellar.

Instructions to relax, i.e., to be `` spontaneous '', and react immediately to whatever impulse they might have, was not sufficiently reassuring until some idea of the possibilities of normal reactions had been given.

By this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.

The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.

For weeks he had been saying that Hudson's idea of sailing through to Java was absurd.

And it was Lucy Upton who first started the idea of a regular course in Music at Spelman College.

That, incidentally, might give you some idea of what Felix was like.

Well, it hadn't been what it seemed, he'd had no idea the girl was in there.

This was senseless -- he had no idea what to look for.

`` I'll get my references in order '', Needham said, and though he spoke with a smile, Casey somehow got the idea that he was not particularly amused.