What is "eureka"

Eureka \Eu*re"ka\ [Gr. ? I have found, perfect indicative of ? to find.] The exclamation attributed to Archimedes, who is said to have cried out ``Eureka! eureka!'' (I have found it! I have found it!), upon suddenly discovering a method of finding out how much the gold of King Hiero's crown had been alloyed. Hence, an expression of triumph concerning a discovery.

c.1600, from Greek heureka "I have found (it)," first person singular perfect active indicative of heuriskein "to find" (see heuristic). Supposedly shouted by Archimedes (c.287-212 B.C.E.) when he solved a problem that had been set to him: determining whether goldsmiths had adulterated the metal in the crown of Hiero II, king of Syracuse.

interj. An exclamation indicating sudden discovery.

Eureka may refer to:

• Eureka (word), a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes
• Eureka effect, the sudden, unexpected realization of the solution to a problem
• Eureka!, the state motto of California

is a 2000 Japanese drama film directed and written by Shinji Aoyama. It stars Kōji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, and Masaru Miyazaki.

EUREKA, often abbreviated as E!, or Σ! (from the ancient Greek way to write "E" and unrelated to modern "Sigma") is an intergovernmental organisation for pan-European research and development funding and coordination. EUREKA aims to coordinate efforts of governments, research institutes and commercial companies concerning innovation. It does not partake in military research and follows a "bottom-up" approach to R&D funding, industry itself deciding which projects should be developed.

As of October 2014, EUREKA has 41 full members, including the European Union (represented by the European Commission). All 28 EU Member States are also members of EUREKA.

EUREKA is not an EU research program, but rather an intergovernmental organisation, of which the EU is a member. Cooperation and synergy are sought between EUREKA and the research activities of the EU proper, notably with European Union's Horizon 2020 and the European Research Area.

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Eureka was the user interface for general users of the Research Library Information Network (RLIN), a bibliographic resource containing records from libraries that were members of Research Libraries Group (RLG). Eureka had the capacity to search among approximately 45 million different titles. Most of the catalog was from major research libraries and museums in the United States. Despite the OPAC formulation, Eureka technically was not a public access search engine. It was generally accessible only from networks connected to research institutions such as universities.

Following the 2006 merger of RLG into OCLC, the Eureka databases were migrated to OCLC's FirstSearch in 2007.

Eureka is an interjection used to celebrate a discovery or invention. It is a transliteration of an exclamation attributed to Ancient Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes.

Eureka is a 1983 British-American drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg. It is the story of a Klondike prospector, Jack McCann ( Gene Hackman) who strikes it rich, yet ends up fearing that his daughter Tracy ( Theresa Russell) and his son-in-law ( Rutger Hauer) are scheming to take his wealth and his soul; moreover, greedy investors ( Joe Pesci and Mickey Rourke) are also hunting McCann's fortune.

Eureka is loosely based on the true murder of Sir Harry Oakes in the Bahamas in 1943.

Eureka is an American science fiction television series that premiered on Syfy on July 18, 2006. The fifth and final season ended on July 16, 2012. The show was set in a fictional town of Eureka, Oregon (although, in the pilot episode, Eureka was located in Washington State – and the origin of a diamond in the episode "Best In Faux" was shown as Eureka, California). Inhabited almost entirely by scientific geniuses, most residents of Eureka work for Global Dynamics – an advanced research facility responsible for the development of nearly all major technological breakthroughs since its inception. Each episode featured a mysterious accidental or intentional misuse of technology, which the town sheriff, Jack Carter, solved with the help of town scientists. Each season also featured a larger story arc that concerned a particular major event or item.

The series was created by Andrew Cosby and Jaime Paglia and was produced by Universal Media Studios. While initially lacking in critical acclaim, Eureka was a ratings success for the network, averaging 3.2 million viewers during the second half of season three. In 2007, Eureka was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Visual Effects for a Series, and won the Leo Award for Best Visual Effects in a Dramatic Series. In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, the show airs on Syfy and is known as A Town Called Eureka, although it is also shown under its original name on the BT Vision platform.

The Eureka was an American automobile manufactured only in 1900. A product of Ough & Waltenbough of San Francisco, it was a 4408 cc rear-inclined three-cylinder with its engine under the back seat.

The Eureka was a French automobile manufactured from 1906 until 1909. A single-cylinder voiturette with friction transmission and belt final drive, it was built at Automobiles Mainetty from La Garenne-Colombes, and used either a 6hp De Dion or a 12hp Anzani engine.

The Eureka was an American automobile made from 1907 to 1909. It was a wheel-steered high wheeler from St. Louis, Missouri, with a two-cylinder 10/12 hp air-cooled engine and conventional sliding gear transmission.

Eureka is a brand of Electrolux Small Appliances North America and a manufacturer of vacuum and other household floor and surface cleaners. The company offers a full line of vacuum cleaners, including uprights, canisters, sticks, handhelds, home built-in systems, battery-powered vacuums, steam cleaners and home cleaning systems. Eureka also manufactures aftermarket vacuum accessories, such as bags, belts and filters.

Eureka was a monthly British science magazine, launched in October 2009, published by The Times newspaper. It closed in October 2012, after 37 issues.

Eureka is the third album by Vancouver-based indie rock band Mother Mother. It was produced by band member Ryan Guldemond and mixed by Mike Fraser ( AC/DC, Metallica, Aerosmith, Joe Satriani).

Eureka is the second Drag City album by American musician Jim O'Rourke. O'Rourke continues to use Drag City for his more conventional work. It was released in 1999. It is named after the 1984 Nicolas Roeg film of the same name. It is one of three albums recorded by O'Rourke that are named after Roeg films.

"Women of the World" is an Ivor Cutler song and "Something Big" is by Burt Bacharach. "Prelude To 110 Or 220", "Movie On The Way Down" and "Through The Night Softly" are named after Chris Burden performance pieces.

Eureka is a journal published annually by The Archimedeans, the Mathematical Society of Cambridge University. It includes many mathematical articles on a variety different topics – written by students and mathematicians from all over the world – as well as a short summary of the activities of the society, problem sets, puzzles, artwork and book reviews.

Eureka has been published 60 times since 1939, and authors include many famous mathematicians scientists such as Paul Erdős, Martin Gardner, Douglas Hofstadter, Godfrey Hardy, Béla Bollobás, John Conway, Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, popular maths writer Ian Stewart, Fields Medallist Timothy Gowers and Nobel Laureate Paul Dirac.

The journal is distributed free of charge to all current members of the Archimedeans. In addition, there are many subscriptions by other students, alumni and libraries from more than 10 different countries.

Eureka is edited by students from the University. Recent issues include

• Eureka 50 (April 1990), Editor: Mark Wainwright
• Eureka 51 (March 1992), Editor: Mark Wainwright
• Eureka 52 (March 1993), Editor: Michael T. Greene
• Eureka 53 (February 1994), Editor: Colin Bell
• Eureka 54 (March 1996), Editor: Alan Bain
• Eureka 55 (June 2001), Editor: Alan Bain
• Eureka 56 (March 2004), Editor: Vicky Neale
• Eureka 57 (May 2005), Editor: Erica Thompson
• Eureka 58 (September 2006), Editor: Shu Kris Chen
• Eureka 59 (June 2008), Editor: James West
• Eureka 60 (November 2010), Editor: Philipp Legner
• Eureka 61 (October 2011), Editors: Philipp Legner and Anja Komatar
• Eureka 62 (December 2012), Editors: Jack Williams and Philipp Legner
• Eureka 63 (September 2014), Editor: Jasper Bird
• Eureka 64 (April 2016), Editor: Long Tin Chan

Of the notable mathematical articles, there is an influential paper by Freeman Dyson where he defined the rank of a partition in an effort to prove combinatorially the partition congruences earlier discovered by Srinivasa Ramanujan. In the article, Dyson made a series of conjectures that were all eventually resolved.

Eureka is a white kitten found by Dorothy Gale's Uncle Henry, that he gives to her telling her that the name means "I have found it!" She is introduced in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz.

Dorothy carries Eureka in a small cage on a train with her to San Francisco to visit her relatives on Hugson farm. While riding with Bill Hugson's nephew Zeb, an earthquake opens a large chasm in the ground, and Eureka falls with Dorothy, Zeb, and Jim the Cab-Horse into the land of the Mangaboos, people made of vegetable. The strange lights in the Magaboos' cavern create all sorts of odd colors, and Eureka looks pink there. Afterward — perhaps in part due to the chapter's title, "The Pink Kitten" — Eureka is often referred to as a "pink kitten," or sometimes, as in Glinda of Oz, as a "purple kitten." Explanations of Eureka's color are common in fan fiction.

Eureka is somewhat of a stereotype of a cat. The last third of Dorothy and the Wizard presents her as very dishonest, and she is placed on trial for having eaten one of the Nine Tiny Piglets — the smallest one that was given to Princess Ozma as a pet. She has said throughout the novel that "it was always his fault," but she stubbornly refused to explain what she meant by "it." Eureka is threatened with execution until the piglet is found. Indeed, Eureka tells them where the piglet is, but is amused at being tried for something it is in her nature to attempt. Throughout, John R. Neill portrays her in ridiculous clothing, including a tailed coat and feather cap, though these are not mentioned in the text.

Eureka later lives in Oz, but how she got back there is another unexplained mystery. The fact that she lives in Oz, and the first statement that she is pink, comes from a statement by the Shaggy Man in The Patchwork Girl of Oz.

Eureka plays a significant supporting role in Dick Martin's 1986 novel The Ozmapolitan of Oz. And she is the heroine of Chris Dulabone's The Colorful Kitten of Oz (1990), which, among other things, addresses the inconsistency of Eureka's color.

Eureka (sometimes referred to as Eureka!) is a British educational television series about science and inventiveness which was originally produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1982 to 1986, and repeated until 1987. Devised and written by Clive Doig and Jeremy Beadle, the series told the stories behind the inventions of commonplace objects.

Eureka is a historic home located near Baskerville, Mecklenburg County, Virginia. It was designed by Jacob W. Holt and built between 1854 and 1859. The house is two stories tall and three bays wide with a central, three-story tower, embellished with a third story balcony, on the facade. The house is representative of the Italian Villa style. It features a one-story, porch and the interior features interior graining and marbleizing and custom-made furniture. Also on the property is a contributing log corn crib.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Eureka: Original Soundtrack From the Sci-Fi Channel Television Series is a soundtrack album released on August 26, 2008, containing incidental music composed primarily by Bear McCreary and used in the second season of the Syfy original series, Eureka.

The album consists of 28 tracks, and includes two variations of the Mark Mothersbaugh and John Enroth composed main theme, as well as two songs -- "Let's Get Hitched" and "EurekAerobics"—written by Brendan McCreary and Captain Ahab, respectively.

The album was released through the La La Land Records website, and is available primarily through them.

Eureka is the third studio album by the American alternative rock band Rooney. It was released on June 8, 2010.

The album is the band's first to be released on their own label California Dreamin' Records. The album was released on CD and vinyl, with a deluxe digital edition featuring four bonus tracks. The band took pre-orders for the album where fans could choose from an autographed CD or vinyl in addition to an exclusive t-shirt. The entire album was streamed a week before its release date on the group's MySpace page. Bassist Matthew Winter departed from the band after the recording of the album. While he is featured on the recording of the album, he is not on the album cover.

On May 14, 2010 the band debuted the video for first single "I Can't Get Enough." A second single "Holdin' On" was released early in 2011. The album debuted on the Billboard 200 chart at number 153.

Eureka (also called Eureka!) is an Australian musical with music by Michael Maurice Harvey, book and lyrics by Gale Edwards and John Senczuk and original book and lyrics by Maggie May Gordon. The musical is set in Victoria during the Eureka Rebellion of 1854, covering the tensions between immigrant gold miners from many cultures and the British colonial authorities. The original Australian production played in Melbourne in 2004 at Her Majesty's Theatre. It was nominated for the Helpmann Award for Best Musical in 2005.

is a song by Japanese band Sakanaction. It was released as a single in January 2014, as a double A-side single with the song " Good-Bye". The minimal techno and city pop song served as the ending credits theme song of the film Judge! (2014), while their 2010 single " Identity" was used as the film's theme song. The song was composed while the band's vocalist and songwriter Ichiro Yamaguchi was physically and mentally unwell. He used his feelings of homesickness during this time to write lyrics that compared his current residence, Tokyo, to his hometown of Otaru, Hokkaido.

The physical single debuted at number two on Oricon's weekly singles chart, while "Eureka" reached number four on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, less successful than "Good-Bye" which reached number two. Critics praised the song's "addictive" electro and minimalist sound, and felt that it was reminiscent of the works of Rei Harakami.

Eureka was a monthly comic magazine published in Italy from 1967 to 1989.