Odd (name) — Odd, a name of Old Norse origin (Oddr), the 11th most common male name in Norway. It is rarely used in other countries, though sometimes appearing in other Nordic countries. In old Norse the word means sharp end of an arrow or edge of blade.… … Wikipedia
List of Norwegians — This is a list of notable people from Norway. Art Literature * Roald Dahl, British children s author of Norwegian descent. * Ingvar Ambjørnsen, author * Kjell Aukrust, author and illustrator * Olav Aukrust, poet * Ari Behn, author, and husband of … Wikipedia
Ascomanni — Das Gokstad Schiff, ausgestellt im Wikinger Schiff Museum in Oslo, Norwegen. Der Begriff Wikinger bezeichnet Angehörige von kriegerischen, zur See fahrenden meist germanischen Völkern des Nord und Ostseeraumes in der so genannten Wikingerzeit.… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Wikinger — Das Gokstad Schiff, ausgestellt im Wikinger Schiff Museum in Oslo, Norwegen. Der Begriff Wikinger bezeichnet Angehörige von kriegerischen, zur See fahrenden Personengruppen der meist germanischen Völker (es gab darunter auch Balten[1]) des Nord… … Deutsch Wikipedia
List of statisticians — Statisticians or people who made notable contributions to the theories of statistics, or related aspects of probability, or machine learning. NOTOC CompactTOC8 side = yes seealso = yes nobreak = yes extlinks = yes x = A * Odd Olai Aalen (1947 ) * … Wikipedia
Carl Zeiss AG — Infobox Company name = Carl Zeiss AG type = Aktiengesellschaft foundation = Jena, Germany (1846) location = flagicon|GEROberkochen, Germany slogan = We make it visible key people = Dr. Dieter Kurz, CEO and President num employees = 12,844 (March… … Wikipedia
List of mathematicians (A) — NOTOC A * A., Choudum S. (India, 1947 ) * Aalen, Odd (Norway, 1947 ) * Abakanowicz, Bruno (Russia/Poland/Lithuania, 1852 1900) * Abdelkader, Mostafa A. (Egypt, ? ) * Abel, Niels Henrik (Norway, 1802 1829) * Abelson, Harold (USA, ? ) * al Abharī,… … Wikipedia
Jean Tirilly — (born 1946) is a French painter, born in 1946 in Léchiagat, Brittany, France. He paints in the Outsider Art tradition coined by the British art critic Roger Cardinal in 1974, first studied by the German psychiatrist and art historian Hans… … Wikipedia
Seventeenth-century materialism: Gassendi and Hobbes — T.Sorell In the English speaking world Pierre Gassendi is probably best known as the author of a set of Objections to Descartes’s Meditations. These Objections, the fifth of seven sets collected by Mersenne, are relatively long and full, and… … History of philosophy