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1 day ago · Sometimes called the father of mathematics and mathematical physics, Archimedes had a wide influence on mathematics and science. Mathematics and physics Bronze statue of Archimedes in Berlin. Historians of science and mathematics almost universally agree that Archimedes was the finest mathematician from antiquity.
- c. 212 BC (aged approximately 75), Syracuse, Sicily
1 day ago · Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private, Ivy League, research university in New York City, United States.Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan, it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States.
- 34,782 (Fall 2022)
- Roar-ee the Lion
- Large city, 299 acres (1.21 km²)
- Minouche Shafik
7 hours ago · The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
- 4,280 m (14,040 ft)
- 165,250,000 km² (63,800,000 sq mi)
- 10,911 m (35,797 ft)
- 710,000,000 km³ (170,000,000 cu mi)
7 hours ago · However, the official languages of its constituent states are not necessarily the official languages of the Mercosur organisation itself, which only recognizes Portuguese and Spanish. That Guarani is an official language there has been described as a common fallacy. Mercosur does not provide all, or even most, services in Guaraní.
- 2022 estimate
- São Paulo
- Montevideo
- Portuguese, Spanish, Guarani
7 hours ago · Cavite Chabacano was spoken with relative ease because it was essentially a simplification of Castillan morphology patterned after the Tagalog syntax. Gradually and naturally, it acquired the sounds present in the Spanish phonological system. After World War II, creole Spanish speakers within the capital of the archipelago vanished.
- 1,574.17 km² (607.79 sq mi)
- Philippines
