white noise
white noise Noise occurring in a channel and regarded as continuous in time and continuous in amplitude, the noise being uniform in energy over equal intervals of
frequency. (Note that, by contrast, white light is uniform in energy over equal intervals of wavelength.) Compare
impulse noise.
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SCIENTISTS FIND ORIGIN OF MEDIEVAL COINS
News Wire article from: United Press International; 6/5/2001; 425 words
; ...minted under orders of the ruler, Ulugh Beg, from 1428 to 1429. The year 832...1428 of the Gregorian calendar. Ulugh Beg ruled the Mawaraunnahr region in...conqueror Timur, known as Tamerlane. Ulugh Beg primarily was known as a mathematician...
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AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE ASSISTS IN SAMARKAND REVITALISATION
PR Newswire; 4/10/1992; 653 words
; ...at seeking proposals for a cultural center dedicated to Ulugh Beg on a 27 hectare site where the historic center of the...Revitalisation takes its name from the grandson of Timur, Ulugh Beg, an astronomer, mathematician, poet and scientist...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Not in concrete please: restoring Tamerlane's heritage. (restoring Samarkand, Uzbekistan)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 8/6/1994; 700+ words
; ...century by Tamerlane's grandson, the astronomer-king Ulugh Beg, born 600 years ago this year. Unfortunately, a forthcoming...also criticises the rebuilding of a second storey of the Ulugh Beg madrassa that had been removed centuries ago; it reckons...
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Jan P. Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I. Sabra, eds. The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Seventeenth-Century News; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...fifteenth-century astronomical handbook, the Zij of Ulugh Beg, who ruled Samarkand in the early fifteenth century...astronomical data into Hindu data. Julio Samso again uses Ulugh Beg's Zij as the point of departure for his essay. His...
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 "Daily News Egypt (Egypt)")
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48 Hours in New Delhi.
Newspaper article from: Daily News Egypt (Egypt); 1/16/2009; 700+ words
; ...up of large-scale structures that produce acute observations of time. Following the style of Arab astronomer Prince Ulugh Beg, who built the 15th century observatory in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the place is also called "Yantra Mandir" or "the...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Antiques and collecting: Making a great show of all that glitters; With extravagant displays of wealth, the Mughals ensured their power was clear to the contemporary public. Now we can enjoy the legacy of this affluence at the British Museum. Richard Edmonds reports.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 7/14/2001; 700+ words
; ...is a 249.3 carat spinel ruby which carries six royal inscriptions with the earliest dating back to the Timurid ruler Ulugh Beg (1447-1449). This is the very stone which Shah Jehan (he of the Taj Mahal) eventually inserted into the famous...
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The Mughal dynasties: Francis Robinson looks for the distinctively tolerant and worldly features of Mughal rule in India and that of the related Islamic dynasties of Iran and Central Asia.(Cover story)
Magazine article from: History Today; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Shah Abbas (r.1588-1629), he had iiscribed the names of Timur and his successors, Shah Rukh (r.1409-47) and Ulugh Beg (r.1447-49), that of Shah Abbas, and those of Akbar, Jahangir and himself. This ruby was then placed in the...
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 "Naperville Sun, The (IL)")
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Making the unthinkable more thinkable
Newspaper article from: Naperville Sun, The (IL); 5/23/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Carved into the wall of an amazingly accurate astronomical observatory in Uzbekistan, built by Tamerlane's grandson Ulugh-Beg 200 years before the discovery of the telescope, are the words "The religions disperse, kingdoms fall apart, but...
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The golden journey to Samarkand: John Lawton visits the fabled cities of the Silk Road.(TRAVEL TO THE PAST)
Magazine article from: History Today; 5/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, wrote his celebrated Canon of Medicine in Bukhara, and the royal astronomer Ulugh Beg, using an enormous sextant set in a hillside overlooking Samarkand, plotted the position of over a thousand stars...
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These inventions changed the course of history
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 1/8/2007; 700+ words
; ...Paris, Oxford, Bologna, and Salamanca teaching Arabic and Islamic studies. TIMELINE 8 1400-1499 *1437 AH/AD: Ulugh Beg publishes his star catalogue. European Events *1497 AH/AD: Venice publishes a translation of al-Tasrif by al...
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Ulugh-Beg
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ulugh-Beg or Ulug-Beg , 1394-1449, Timurid ruler and astronomer. The grandson of Timur (or Tamerlane), he succeeded to the Timurid domain in 1447. A patron of the arts and sciences, he established an astronomical observatory at Samarkand...
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Ulugh Beg
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
Ulugh Beg Title assumed by Muhammad Taragi (1394–1449), Mongol ruler and astronomer, born in modern Iran. In 1420 he established...
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Al-Kashi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...In 1409 Shah Rokh's oldest son, Ulugh Beg (1393–1449), became...Transoxania portion of the Timurid empire. Ulugh Beg was a noted mathematician and astronomer...most esteemed university. Courted Ulugh Beg's Favor When Al-Kashi finished...
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Qāḍī Zāda Al-Rūmī
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...b . When he presented himself to Ulugh Beg in Samarkand ( ca. 1410) , he had...falls between 1405 and 1408. In 1421 Ulugh Beg ordered the construction of a university...astronomy, Qatjf Zada frequently had Ulugh Beg as a student in his classes. Also...
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Jayasiṃha
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...intended to be an improvement on the z ī j of Ulugh Beg and the Z ī j-i Kh ā q ā ni of al-K ā sh ī . Also imitative of Ulugh Beg was Jayasimha ’ s construction of five astronomical...
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