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Plateau's laws

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Plateau's laws

Summary

Plateau's laws is a physical law[1]. It draws 47 Wikipedia views per month (physical_law category, ranking #81 of 113).[2]

Key Facts

  • Plateau's laws's instance of is recorded as physical law[3].
  • Joseph Plateau is named after Plateau's laws[4].
  • Plateau's laws's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/084st8[5].
  • Plateau's laws's MathWorld ID is recorded as PlateausLaws[6].
  • Plateau's laws's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[7].
  • Plateau's laws's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 111133630[8].

Why It Matters

Plateau's laws draws 47 Wikipedia views per month (physical_law category, ranking #81 of 113).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

Related Entities

Joseph Plateau

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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