454 Mathesis [SEP] discoverer or inventor
454 Mathesis
Mathesis (minor planet designation: 454 Mathesis) is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by German astronomer Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann on March 28, 1900. Its provisional name was 1900 FC.
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Altimira Observatory in 2004 gave a light curve with a period of 8.37784 ± 0.00003 hours and a brightness variation of 0.32 in magnitude. This differs from periods of 7.075 hours reported in 1994 and 7.745 hours in 1998.
Mathesis
Mathesis may refer to
- 454 Mathesis, an asteroid discovered in 1900
- "Mathesis" (journal), a Belgian mathematics journal founded in 1881
- Mathesis (philosophy), the science of establishing a systematic order for things according to Michel Foucault
- Mathesis (society), an Italian association of mathematics teachers
- Mathesis universalis, a hypothetical universal science advocated by Leibniz and Descartes among others
- "Mathesis universalis", a treatise on integral calculus published by John Wallis in 1657