Events Tagged: "theory"

Aristotle studies wine - observes fermentation, notes wine's properties, discusses effect on body and mind

Paracelsus develops doctrine of signatures - belief that herbs resembling body parts can treat ailments of those parts

Laplace publishes Theorie analytique - 'probability is common sense reduced to calculus'

Carl von Clausewitz's 'On War' published posthumously - revolutionizes military theory with concepts of friction, fog of war, and war as politics

Richard Dedekind develops theory of algebraic integers - systematic study of number fields

Friedrich Kick develops scientific theory of chip formation in metal cutting - establishes mathematical basis for machining

John von Neumann develops theory of self-reproducing automata - theoretical foundation for cellular automata and artificial life

Stephen Cook develops systematic computational complexity theory

Srinivasa Varadhan develops systematic large deviations theory