John Wesley Powell: Powell’s legacy: …and in 1877 he published Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages, with Words, Phrases, and Sentences to Be Collected. In recognition of his contribution, Powell was appointed the first director of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, founded in 1879. Powell held the post until his…

Albion W. Small: …the world’s first sociology textbook, An Introduction to the Study of Society (1894). He called the attention of U.S. scholars to contemporary German-language social theories, particularly those of the Austrian soldier and philosopher Gustav Ratzenhofer, whose ideas strongly influenced Small’s General Sociology (1905).

Alfred V. Kidder: Kidder’s Introduction to the Study of Southwestern Archaeology (1924), which became a standard work, details the origin and development of the Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) culture. In 1927 he proposed the Pecos classification system, a regional archaeological timescale widely used by later workers in the Pueblo region.

Edward Thomas Copson: …Copson wrote the widely used Introduction to the Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable (1935) and, in collaboration with Bevan B. Baker, The Mathematical Theory of Huygens’ Principle (1939), concerning the generation and structure of waves. His other publications include Asymptotic Expansions (1965) and Metric Spaces (1968).

Edward L. Thorndike: …research, chiefly through his handbook, An Introduction to the Theory of Mental and Social Measurements (1904). Other important works in the early part of his career were The Principles of Teaching Based on Psychology (1906), Education: A First Book (1912), and Educational Psychology, 3 vol. (1913–14; 2nd ed., 1921). These…

history of logic: St. Anselm and Peter Abelard: …De interpretatione; these were the Introductiones parvulorum (also containing glosses on some writings of Boethius), Logica “Ingredientibus,” and Logica “Nostrorum petitioni sociorum” (on the Isagoge only), together with the independent treatise Dialectica (extant in part). These works show a familiarity with Boethius but go far beyond him. Among the topics…

Luigi Cremona: …Bologna in 1860, he published “Introduzione ad una teoria geometrica delle curve piane” (1862; “Introduction to a Geometrical Theory of the Plane Curve”), his first paper on transformations (rules that associate with every point in a space one or more points in the same space) in planes and in space.…

Vincenzo Gioberti: …his first major works, including Introduzione allo studio della filosofia (1839–40; “Introduction to the Study of Philosophy”), a polemic against the philosophical system propounded from 1830 by Antonio Rosmini-Serbati.

Massimo Bontempelli: … (1939; “The 20th-Century Adventure”) and Introduzioni e discorsi (1945; “Introductions and Discourses”), which treats the work of many major 19th- and 20th-century Italian writers. He also wrote music criticism, collected in Passione incompiuta: scritti sulla musica, 1910–1950 (1958; “Unfulfilled Passion: Writings on Music”).

Gregorian chant: The Introit is a processional chant that was originally a psalm with a refrain sung between verses. By the 9th century it had received its present form: refrain in a neumatic style—a psalm verse in psalm-tone style—refrain repeated. The Gradual, introduced in the 4th century, also…

heredity: Transcription: Noncoding nucleotide sequences called introns are excised from the RNA at this stage in a process called intron splicing. Molecular complexes called spliceosomes, which are composed of proteins and RNA, have RNA sequences that are complementary to the junction between introns and adjacent coding regions called exons. The intron…

introspection, (from Latin introspicere, “to look within”), the process of observing the operations of one’s own mind with a view to discovering the laws that govern the mind. In a dualistic philosophy, which divides the natural world (matter, including the human body) from the contents of

Jacob Glatstein: …in 1920 helped establish the Inzikhist (“Introspectivist”) literary movement. In later years he was one of the outstanding figures in mid-20th-century American Yiddish literature.

introvert and extravert, basic personality types according to the theories of the 20th-century Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. According to these theories, an introvert is a person whose interest is generally directed inward toward his own feelings and thoughts, in contrast to an extravert, whose

animal: Annotated classification: Phylum Introverta Spiny retractable proboscis (or introvert) at head of wormlike body functions in burrowing through soft substrates or guts; marine and freshwater species; predators or parasites; parasitic forms lack a gut; Cambrian to recent; 900 species. Phylum Annelida Segmented worms; paired appendages or setae on…

introverted quatrain, a quatrain having an enclosed rhyme. An example of an introverted quatrain is the In Memoriam stanza (named for the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson), which has an abba rhyme scheme. An introverted stanza may also be called an

attack aircraft: types were the Grumman A-6 Intruder, first flown in 1960; the U.S. Navy’s McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, first flown in 1954; and the Ling-Temco-Vought A-7 Corsair, first flown in 1965. The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II (better known as the “Warthog”), a twin-engine aircraft first flown in 1972, became…

Intruder in the Dust, novel by American author William Faulkner, published in 1948. Set in Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha county, the novel combines the solution of a murder mystery with an exploration of race relations in the South. Charles (“Chick”) Mallison, a 16-year-old white boy, feels

Roger Corman: Other cult classic films: The Intruder (1962) was a serious parable about race relations, with William Shatner as a rabble-rousing racist in the South. The Wild Angels (1966) was a sordid biker film that was based on the exploits of the Hells Angels and starred Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern,…

Millie Bobby Brown: …the British paranormal drama series Intruders, which aired on BBC Two in 2014. The show centres around a secret society whose members seek immortality by possessing the bodies of others. Brown played a nine-year-old who becomes possessed by one such intruder. Intruders ran for only one season, but Brown continued…

information system: Securing information: To continually monitor information systems, intrusion detection systems are used. They detect anomalous events and log the information necessary to produce reports and to establish the source and the nature of the possible intrusion. More active systems also attempt to prevent the intrusion upon detection in real time.

intrusive rock, igneous rock formed from magma forced into older rocks at depths within the Earth’s crust, which then slowly solidifies below the Earth’s surface, though it may later be exposed by erosion. Igneous intrusions form a variety of rock types. See also extrusive

intrusive rock, igneous rock formed from magma forced into older rocks at depths within the Earth’s crust, which then slowly solidifies below the Earth’s surface, though it may later be exposed by erosion. Igneous intrusions form a variety of rock types. See also extrusive

peperite, subsurface rock containing fragments ejected by an underground volcanic explosion (see

Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), largest trade-union federation in India. INTUC was established in 1947 in cooperation with the Indian National Congress, which favoured a less militant union movement than the All-India Trade Union Congress. INTUC is largely anticommunist; it is

Intuit Inc., provider of financial, accounting, and tax-preparation software for individuals and small businesses. Intuit Inc. was founded in 1983 by American entrepreneurs Scott Cook and Tom Proulx. The company headquarters is in Mountain View, California The company’s first product was Quicken, a

Jamie Foxx: Foxx’s third studio album, Intuition (2008), featured the single “Blame It,” a Grammy Award-winning collaboration with vocalist and producer T-Pain. His later albums included Best Night of My Life (2010) and Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses (2015). In 2021 Foxx published the memoir Act Like You Got…

intuition, in philosophy, the power of obtaining knowledge that cannot be acquired either by inference or observation, by reason or experience. As such, intuition is thought of as an original, independent source of knowledge, since it is designed to account for just those kinds of knowledge that

intuitionism, school of mathematical thought introduced by the 20th-century Dutch mathematician L.E.J. Brouwer that contends the primary objects of mathematical discourse are mental constructions governed by self-evident laws. Intuitionists have challenged many of the oldest principles of

intuitionism, In metaethics, a form of cognitivism that holds that moral statements can be known to be true or false immediately through a kind of rational intuition. In the 17th and 18th centuries, intuitionism was defended by Ralph Cudworth, Henry More (1614–87), Samuel Clarke (1675–1729), and

formal logic: Natural deduction method in PC: …precisely the theorems of the intuitionistic calculus.

foundations of mathematics: Intuitionistic type theories: Topoi are closely related to intuitionistic type theories. Such a theory is equipped with certain types, terms, and theorems.

intuition, in philosophy, the power of obtaining knowledge that cannot be acquired either by inference or observation, by reason or experience. As such, intuition is thought of as an original, independent source of knowledge, since it is designed to account for just those kinds of knowledge that

intuition, in philosophy, the power of obtaining knowledge that cannot be acquired either by inference or observation, by reason or experience. As such, intuition is thought of as an original, independent source of knowledge, since it is designed to account for just those kinds of knowledge that

intussusception, telescoping of a segment of the intestine into an adjacent segment, producing a mechanical obstruction of the alimentary canal. Primary intussusception is sometimes congenital and rarely appears later than the third year of life; it arises in the course of intestinal development,

Yamazaki Sōkan: The Inu tsukuba shū, containing haikai by Sōkan and others, was probably written over a period of several years but was not published until some 100 years after its completion. The delay in publication may have been because Sōkan compiled the book for the use of…

Inugsuk culture, Eskimo culture that developed from the Thule culture (q.v.) in northern Greenland during the 12th and 13th centuries. It was distinguished by an increased dependence on hunting by means of a kayak (a one-man skin boat) and implements associated with this development. Dog-drawn

Nunavut: Population composition: The territorial government recognizes Inuinnaqtun, an Inuktitut dialect spoken in western Nunavut and written in roman letters, as one of the territory’s four main languages (Inuktitut, English, and French are the other three).

Inuit, group of culturally and linguistically unique Indigenous peoples of the Arctic and subarctic regions whose homelands encompass Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland, a self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark), Arctic Canada, northern and southwestern Alaska in the United States, and

Greenland: Government and society: …historical relations with Denmark; and Inuit Ataqatigiit, which calls for full independence from Denmark. The Inatsisartut elects the prime minister as well as the other members of the Landsstyre, a council that assumes the island’s executive responsibilities. The prime minister is typically the leader of the majority party in the…

Arctic: Contemporary developments: In 1977 the Inuit Circumpolar Conference was formed by the Inuit peoples of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska; in 1983 it was recognized officially by the United Nations. By the early 21st century it represented some 180,000 individuals of Inuit and Yupiit heritage, including those of Siberia. The Aleut…

Inuit: Founded in 1977, the pan-Arctic Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) is a nongovernmental organization that seeks to strengthen unity among the Inuit, to promote their rights and interests internationally, and to ensure the endurance and growth of Inuit culture and societies. Inuit have entered into a variety of governance arrangements throughout…

Inuit language, the northeastern division of the Eskimo languages of the Eskimo-Aleut (Eskaleut) language family spoken in northern Alaska, Canada, and Greenland (Kalaallit

Eskimo-Aleut languages, family of languages spoken in Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat), Canada, the United States (in Alaska), and Russia (in eastern Siberia), by the Inuit and Unangan (Aleut) peoples. Unangan is a self-name; Aleut is the name the Russians used for these people. The term Eskimo was

Inuit language, the northeastern division of the Eskimo languages of the Eskimo-Aleut (Eskaleut) language family spoken in northern Alaska, Canada, and Greenland (Kalaallit

Inukai Tsuyoshi was a Japanese politician and prime minister whose assassination marked the end of party participation in the Japanese government in the period preceding World War II. Of samurai origin, Inukai began his career as a reporter. He became minister of education in 1898 and then founded

Inuit language, the northeastern division of the Eskimo languages of the Eskimo-Aleut (Eskaleut) language family spoken in northern Alaska, Canada, and Greenland (Kalaallit

inulin, polysaccharide that is a commercial source of the sugar fructose. It occurs in many plants of the family Asteraceae (Compositae), particularly in such roots and tubers as the dahlia and the Jerusalem artichoke. Inulin forms a white, crystalline powder that is as sweet as sucrose. The inulin

inulin clearance, procedure by which the filtering capacity of the glomeruli (the main filtering structures of the kidney) is determined by measuring the rate at which inulin, the test substance, is cleared from blood plasma. Inulin is the most accurate substance to measure because it is a small,

Kotzebue, city, northwestern Alaska, U.S. Lying 550 miles (885 km) northwest of Anchorage, it is situated at the northwestern end of Baldwin Peninsula, on Kotzebue Sound. The area, which was a trading centre for a number of widely scattered Arctic villages, has long been inhabited by Inupiat

Inuit language, the northeastern division of the Eskimo languages of the Eskimo-Aleut (Eskaleut) language family spoken in northern Alaska, Canada, and Greenland (Kalaallit

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Human impact: Inupiat Eskimo (Inuit) inhabit the northern coastal area, subsisting primarily by hunting a variety of game. Their community of Kaktovik is located on a barrier island just off the coast of the refuge.

Inuit language, the northeastern division of the Eskimo languages of the Eskimo-Aleut (Eskaleut) language family spoken in northern Alaska, Canada, and Greenland (Kalaallit

Jorge Edwards: …leftist Chilean expatriates in Paris; El inútil de la familia (2004; “The Worthless One in the Family”), a fictionalized account of the life history of Edwards’s uncle; and La casa de Dostoievsky (2008; “Dostoievsky’s House”), about an unnamed avant-garde poet who travels to 1960s Cuba. Edwards’s nonfiction works include Adiós,…

Guy de Maupassant: Mature life and works of Guy de Maupassant: …Rose-Bush of Madame Husson”), and L’Inutile Beauté (1890; “The Useless Beauty”). Four more novels also appeared: Mont-Oriol (1887), on the financing of a fashionable watering place; Pierre et Jean; Fort comme la mort (1889; “As Strong as Death”); and Notre coeur (1890; “Our Heart”).

Inuvik, northwestern region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Inuvik region was created in the early 1970s by the territorial government and was formerly part of Mackenzie and Franklin districts. It extends from Wrigley northward along the middle reaches of the Mackenzie River, which forms its

Inuvik, town, Inuvik region, Northwest Territories, Canada. It lies along the East Channel of the Mackenzie River delta, just east of the northernmost point of the Yukon. Planned as a model community by the Canadian government, with an Inuit (Eskimo) name meaning “place of man,” it was built

attack aircraft: …1940s and ’50s were the Douglas B-26 Invader and the Douglas A-1 Skyraider. All these types were piston-engined, propeller-driven aircraft.

William Cameron Menzies: Later films: Invaders from Mars (1953) is probably Menzies’s best-known work. Made during the height of the sci-fi craze, it is a nightmarish, at times surrealistic, tale told from the perspective of a little boy who sees a Martian saucer descend in a field but finds no…

William Plomer: …Case Is Altered (1932) and The Invaders (1934). Additional publications included a semifictional memoir, Museum Pieces (1952), and three volumes of family and personal memoirs, Double Lives (1943), At Home (1958), and Autobiography of William Plomer (1975). Between 1938 and 1940 he edited three volumes of the diaries of the…

Paris: The Invalides of Paris: One street to the northeast of the Military Academy is the Hôtel des Invalides, founded by King Louis XIV to shelter 7,000 aged or invalid veterans. The enormous range of buildings was completed in five years (1671–76). The gold-plated dome (1675–1706) that rises…

Western architecture: France: Hardouin-Mansart’s Dôme des Invalides, Paris (begun in 1676), is generally agreed to be the finest church of the last half of the 17th century in France. The correctness and precision of its form, the harmony and balance of its spaces, and the soaring vigour of its…

Les Invalides, an extensive complex of 17th-century structures and courtyards in Paris designed for the care and housing of disabled veterans and as a place of worship. Parts of Les Invalides were later converted into museums and into tombs for Napoleon I and others. Situated on the Left Bank of

Les Invalides, an extensive complex of 17th-century structures and courtyards in Paris designed for the care and housing of disabled veterans and as a place of worship. Parts of Les Invalides were later converted into museums and into tombs for Napoleon I and others. Situated on the Left Bank of

Invar, alloy of iron that expands very little when heated; it contains 64 percent iron and 36 percent nickel. Invar was formerly used for absolute standards of length measurement and is now used for surveying tapes and in watches and various other temperature-sensitive devices. The trademark name

symmetry, in physics, the concept that the properties of particles such as atoms and molecules remain unchanged after being subjected to a variety of symmetry transformations or “operations.” Since the earliest days of natural philosophy (Pythagoras in the 6th century bce), symmetry has furnished

projective geometry: Projective invariants: With Desargues’s provision of infinitely distant points for parallels, the reality plane and the projective plane are essentially interchangeable—that is, ignoring distances and directions (angles), which are not preserved in the projection. Other properties are preserved, however. For instance, two different points have a…

phase: Unary systems: Point C is therefore an invariant point; a change in either pressure or temperature results in the loss of one or more phases. The phase rule also reveals that no more than three phases can stably coexist in a one-component system because additional phases would lead to negative variance.

Arthur Cayley: …branch of algebra known as invariant theory.

migration: …followed by a return journey; invasion or interruption, both of which involve the appearance and subsequent disappearance of great numbers of animals at irregular times and locations; and range expansion, which tends to enlarge the distribution of a species, particularly its breeding area.

Cardi B: Bodak Yellow and Invasion of Privacy: …released her debut studio album, Invasion of Privacy, in 2018. The song “I Like It” reached number one on the Billboard 100, making Cardi B the first female rapper to have two songs reach the top of the chart. Cardi B earned five nominations at the 2019 Grammys, including record…

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, American science-fiction film, released in 1956, that was directed by Don Siegel and has been hailed as one of the most intelligent films of the genre. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) In the small California town of Santa Mira, several

Philip Kaufman: Early work: …ventured into science fiction with Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a remake of Don Siegel’s 1956 classic. Kaufman created an atmosphere of mounting dread, and the cast—which included Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, and Jeff Goldblum—was notable.

Alfred E. Green: Invasion USA (1952) has some historical value as an example of red-baiting during the Joseph McCarthy era.

Arthur Adamov: In L’Invasion, he attempted to depict the human situation more realistically; it impressed André Gide and the director Jean Vilar, and, under Vilar’s direction, it opened in Paris in 1950, with his third play, La grande et la petite manoeuvre. The latter reveals the influence of…

Denys Arcand: …notably Les Invasions barbares (2003; The Barbarian Invasions), embody his intellectual curiosity and passion for politics, art, and life.

aspergillosis: Severe invasive aspergillosis is almost entirely limited to those whose immune systems have been severely compromised, either by drug therapies or by disease—i.e., immunosuppressed patients. People with leukemia or other cancers are unable to contain the organism in the lungs and may develop widespread disease involving…

pregnancy: Hydatidiform mole: …mole, referred to as an invasive mole or chorioadenoma destruens, may in rare instances perforate the uterus and cause death from hemorrhage. Molar villi rarely are carried to the lung or brain. When they are, the patient may suffer from hemorrhage into the lung or die from hemorrhage within the…

invasive species, any nonnative species that significantly modifies or disrupts the ecosystems it colonizes. Such species may arrive in new areas through natural migration, but they are often introduced by the activities of other species. Human activities, such as those involved in global commerce

human disease: Infectious agents: …must have sufficient virulence and invasiveness to cause significant tissue injury.

incel, member of an online subculture of primarily heterosexual men who identify as being unable to have romantic or sexual relationships. This self-described inability to form attachments is often expressed as grievance toward women. Incel subculture has been associated with misogyny, extremism,

Adolfo Bioy Casares: …La invención de Morel (1940; The Invention of Morel). A carefully constructed and fantastic work, it concerns a fugitive (the narrator) who has fallen in love and strives to establish contact with a woman who is eventually revealed to be only an image created by a film projector. The novel…

Garry Wills: …for Thomas Jefferson’s political thought, Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence (1978).

Shonda Rhimes: She also developed Inventing Anna (2022), a miniseries about a real-life con artist who pretended to be a German heiress.

Umberto Eco: …e altri scritti occasionali (2011; Inventing the Enemy, and Other Occasional Writings) collected pieces—some initially presented as lectures—on a wide range of subjects, from fascist reactions to Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) to the implications of WikiLeaks. Storia delle terre e dei luoghi leggendari (2013; The Book of Legendary Lands) investigates a…

William Fielding Ogburn: Ogburn considered what he termed invention—a new combination of existing cultural elements—to be the fundamental cause of social change and cultural evolution. Noting that an invention directly affecting one aspect of culture may require adjustments in other cultural areas, he introduced the term cultural lag to describe delays in adjustment…

invention, the act of bringing ideas or objects together in a novel way to create something that did not exist before. Ever since the first prehistoric stone tools, humans have lived in a world shaped by invention. Indeed, the brain appears to be a natural inventor. As part of the act of

invention, in music, any of a number of markedly dissimilar compositional forms dating from the 16th century to the present. While its exact meaning has never been defined, the term has often been affixed to compositions of a novel, progressive character—i.e., compositions that do not fit

Larry Woiwode: … (2013), and a children’s book, The Invention of Lefse (2011). He also wrote several biographies, including A Legacy of Passion (2022), about the Scheel family, founders of a retail chain. What I Think I Did (2000) and A Step from Death (2008) are memoirs.

Tom Stoppard: …house, premiered in 1993, and The Invention of Love, about A.E. Housman, was first staged in 1997.

Ricky Gervais: …and directed (with Matthew Robinson) The Invention of Lying (2009), which centers on a down-on-his-luck screenwriter (played by Gervais) who discovers that he alone can lie in a world where everyone tells the truth. His other film credits include Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009), Muppets Most…

Adolfo Bioy Casares: …La invención de Morel (1940; The Invention of Morel). A carefully constructed and fantastic work, it concerns a fugitive (the narrator) who has fallen in love and strives to establish contact with a woman who is eventually revealed to be only an image created by a film projector. The novel…

Paul Auster: The Invention of Solitude (1982) is both a memoir about the death of his father and a meditation on the act of writing. Auster also penned several verse volumes including Unearth (1974) and Wall Writing (1976) as well as the essay collections White Spaces (1980)…

Geber: …and De inventione veritatis (The Invention of Verity, 1678). They are the clearest expression of alchemical theory and the most important set of laboratory directions to appear before the 16th century. Accordingly, they were widely read and extremely influential in a field where mysticism, secrecy, and obscurity were the…

wind instrument: Trumpet-type aerophones: …German horn known as the Inventionshorn.

inventor, a person who brings ideas or objects together in a novel way to create an invention, something that did not exist before. Inventors defy definition; as a result, they are frequently defined by what they are not. For example, though there is a close relation between invention and science

inventory, in business, any item of property held in stock by a firm, including finished goods ready for sale, goods in the process of production, raw materials, and goods that will be consumed in the process of producing goods to be sold. Inventories appear on a company’s balance sheet as an

operations research: Inventory control: Inventories include raw materials, component parts, work in process, finished goods, packing and packaging materials, and general supplies. The control of inventories, vital to the financial strength of a firm, in general involves deciding at what points in the production system stocks shall…

automation: Service industries: Each transaction depletes the store’s inventory, so the item purchased must be identified for reorder. Much clerical effort is expended by the store when inventory is managed by strictly manual procedures. Computerized systems have been installed in most modern retail stores to speed sales transactions and automatically update inventory records…

accounting: Problems of measurement and the limitations of financial reporting: …is usually called the “inventory profit.” The implication is that this is a component of net income that is less “real” than other components because it results from the holding of inventories rather than from trading with customers.