Snaith (disambiguation)

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Snaith town in Yorkshire, England

Snaith is a town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Goole on the A1041 at its junction with the A645. It is 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north of the M62 motorway, just south of the River Aire.

Snaith and Cowick

Snaith and Cowick is a civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) west of the town of Goole and covers an area of 2,406.612 hectares.

RAF Snaith

Royal Air Force Snaith or RAF Snaith is a former Royal Air Force station which was located 7 miles (11 km) south west of Goole, Yorkshire, England and close to the village of Pollington.

People

with the surname Snaith

Norman Henry Snaith (1898–1982) was a British Old Testament scholar and a Professor at Wesley College, Leeds.

Dan Snaith Canadian mathematician and composer who has performed as Manitoba, Daphni and Caribou

Daniel Victor Snaith is a Canadian composer, musician, and recording artist who has performed under the stage names Caribou, Manitoba and Daphni.

Nina Claire Snaith is a British mathematician at the University of Bristol working in random matrix theory and quantum chaos.

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The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, commonly known simply as Fields Institute, is an international centre for scientific research in mathematical sciences at the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The institute is named for University of Toronto mathematician John Charles Fields, after whom the Fields Medal is also named. It was established in 1992, and was briefly based at the University of Waterloo before relocating to Toronto in 1995.

<i>The Milk of Human Kindness</i> album by Dan Snaith

The Milk of Human Kindness is the third album by Canadian mathematician, composer and musician Dan Snaith, released on April 18, 2005 by The Leaf Label and Domino Recording Company. It is Snaith's first album credited under the pseudonym Caribou, previously known as Manitoba until Up in Flames in 2003, after which he was forced to rename after a threatened lawsuit by Handsome Dick Manitoba of The Dictators.

Snaith railway station british railway station

Snaith railway station is a railway station that serves the town of Snaith in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located 26 miles (42 km) east of Leeds railway station on the Pontefract Line, between Knottingley and Goole.

West Cowick village in United Kingdom

West Cowick is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) south-east of the town of Snaith and just to the south of the A1041 road and north of the M62 motorway.

The Whitehead Prize is awarded yearly by the London Mathematical Society to multiple mathematicians working in the United Kingdom who are at an early stage of their career. The prize is named in memory of homotopy theory pioneer J. H. C. Whitehead.

<i>Andorra</i> (album) Fourth album by Canadian mathematician and composer Dan Snaith as Caribou, released by City Slang and Merge on 17 August 2007

Andorra is a 2007 studio album by Dan Snaith, released under the stage name Caribou. It is Snaith's fourth album and his second as Caribou, following The Milk of Human Kindness. It was released August 17, 2007 by City Slang and Merge. Much like Snaith's previous three studio albums, the album received critical acclaim and was the winner of the 2008 Polaris Music Prize.

<i>Swim</i> (Caribou album) Fifth album by Canadian mathematician and composer Dan Snaith as Caribou, released by City Slang and Merge on April 20, 2010

Swim is the fifth album by Canadian mathematician and composer Dan Snaith, released on 20 April 2010 by City Slang and Merge. It is the third album credited under Caribou and deviates from the psychedelic pop and took influences from various kinds of electronic dance music, especially deep house and minimal techno.

A Romance of Mayfair is a 1925 British romance film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Betty Faire, Henry Victor and Molly Johnson. It was based on the novel The Crime of Constable Kelly by J.C. Snaith and made by Stoll Pictures at their Cricklewood Studios. The screenplay concerns the love affair between the heir to a Duke and a young actress.

The Snaith School

The Snaith School is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Snaith in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The school was founded in 1899. As of 2014 the school had a pupil count of 910. Also as of the 2014 ofsted report the school was rated: Good. the Percentage of pupils who attained five GCSEs grade A* to C including English and mathematics in 2014 was 66%.

Henry Snaith Professor of Physics in the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford.

Henry James Snaith is a professor in physics in the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford.

Jonathan Peter Keating FRS is a British mathematician. Since 2012 he has been the Henry Overton Wills Professor of Mathematics at the University of Bristol, where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Science (2009-2013). He has made significant contributions to applied mathematics and mathematical physics; in particular to quantum chaos, random matrix theory and number theory.