All articles starting with B

Baudhayana (बौधायन)

Baudhayana (बौधायन), also known as Bodhayana, was an Indian mathematician and Vedic priest of about 800 BCE, author of the Baudhayana Sulbasutra, which states the Pythagorean theorem.

Baudhayana Shrauta Sutra (बौधायन श्रौतसूत्र)

The Baudhayana Shrauta Sutra (बौधायन श्रौतसूत्र) is a Sanskrit ritual manual of the Krishna Yajurveda, prescribing Vedic sacrifices in 29 chapters, dated to about 800–600 BC.

Baudot code

The Baudot code, also known as the International Telegraph Alphabet, is a five-unit telegraph code invented by Émile Baudot around 1870 and used by telex.

Baudouin (Boudewijn), fifth King of the Belgians (1951-1993), reigned over Congo's independence and Belgium's federalization; in 1990 he was declared unable to reign for 36 hours rather than sign the abortion law.

Bauer Hockey

Bauer Hockey is a Canadian hockey equipment maker founded in 1927 in Kitchener, Ontario, and the leading manufacturer of hockey skates, sticks, and protective gear.

Bauer Sharp

Bauer Sharp, Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end (No. 84), 2026 NFL Draft sixth-round pick (185th overall) from LSU; former quarterback converted at Southeastern Louisiana, also played at Oklahoma.

Bauernschlau

Bauernschlau (Serafino in Italian) is a 1991 Tom Schoeps bluffing board game from F.X. Schmid for 2–6 players: secretly place white and black sheep, build fences, and enclose the most valuable farm; Spiel des Jahres recommended 1991.

Bauernschnapsen

Bauernschnapsen (Viererschnapsen), Austrian four-player partnership trick-taking card game derived from Schnapsen and Sixty-Six; 20 cards, bidding for contracts from Bettler to Herrenschnapser, Kontra doubling, 24 game points to win.

Bauge (oil field)

Bauge is a Norwegian oil field on Haltenbanken in the Norwegian Sea, discovered in 2013 as Snilehorn and producing since 2023 via a subsea tieback to Njord, operated by Equinor.

Bauhaus

Bauhaus: German school of art, architecture and design founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in April 1919, continued in Dessau and Berlin, closed by Nazi pressure in 1933; famed for art-and-technology modernism.

Bauhaus (band)

Bauhaus: English post-punk band formed in Northampton in 1978 (Murphy, Ash, David J, Haskins), also known as Bauhaus 1919, whose 1979 single "Bela Lugosi's Dead" launched gothic rock.

Sep 19, 2026

Bauhaus AG

Bauhaus AG is a family-owned German DIY and home-improvement retailer founded in Mannheim in 1960 by Heinz Georg Baus, running over 290 stores in 19 European countries.

Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau

Serial UNESCO World Heritage Site in Germany, inscribed 1996 and extended 2017, comprising seven Bauhaus buildings in Weimar, Dessau, and Bernau under criteria (ii), (iv), (vi), 8.1614 ha.

Bauhaus Building (Dessau)

The Bauhaus Building (Bauhausgebäude) in Dessau, Germany, is the school building Walter Gropius designed for the Bauhaus, opened in 1926 and listed by UNESCO since 1996.

Bauhaus metal workshop

The Bauhaus metal workshop was the metalworking department of the German Bauhaus school from 1919 to 1929, producing lighting fixtures and tableware under László Moholy-Nagy and Marianne Brandt.

Bauhaus photography

Bauhaus photography is the photographic work and teaching of the German Bauhaus art school, active 1919 to 1933, driven above all by László Moholy-Nagy and Lucia Moholy.

Bauhaus typography

Bauhaus typography is the geometric, functionalist lettering and page layout produced at the German Bauhaus school between 1919 and 1933, known for sans-serif type, lowercase setting, and asymmetric layouts.

Oct 20, 2026

Bauhinia

Bauhinia (Plum) is a genus of pantropical trees and shrubs belonging to the Fabaceae family. Taxonomic debate exists over its circumscription, with counts ranging from 150 to 380 species.

Bauhinia × blakeana

Bauhinia × blakeana (洋紫荊), Hong Kong orchid tree, a sterile artificial hybrid of B. purpurea × B. variegata discovered near Pokfulam in the 1880s; flower is Hong Kong's emblem since 1965.

Sep 21, 2026

Bauke W. Dijkstra

Bauke W. Dijkstra is a Dutch biochemist and protein crystallographer, emeritus professor at the University of Groningen, known for the α/β-hydrolase fold and enzyme structures.

Baul (বাউল)

Baul (বাউল) are mystic minstrels of rural Bangladesh and West Bengal, a syncretic devotional sect blending Vaishnava, Buddhist Sahajiya, and Sufi elements, centered on the body as God's seat, with Lalon Shah (1774–1890) as central figure and UNESCO-listed Baul songs.

Baule art

Baule art (Baoulé art) is the wood-carving tradition of the Baule people of central Côte d'Ivoire, including spirit-spouse figures, mblo and Goli masks, and carved doors.

Baule figure sculpture

Baule figure sculpture is the carved wooden human figure tradition of the Baule people of central Côte d'Ivoire, made since the 1700s to house spirit spouses and nature spirits for diviners.

Baum–Connes conjecture

The Baum–Connes conjecture, from operator algebras and noncommutative geometry, states that the assembly map is an isomorphism; it was posed by Paul Baum and Alain Connes in 1982.

Baum–Welch algorithm

The Baum–Welch algorithm, also called the forward–backward algorithm, is an expectation-maximization method that estimates the transition and emission probabilities of a hidden Markov model from unlabeled observations, with applications in speech recognition and computational biology.

Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Bauman Moscow State Technical University (МГТУ им. Н. Э. Баумана, BMSTU), founded by decree of Nicholas I on July 1, 1830, is Russia's oldest technical university in Moscow, origin of the 'Russian method' of engineering training, alma mater of Korolev and Tupolev, and a Roscosmos-linked national research university.

Baume & Mercier

Baume & Mercier is a Swiss luxury watchmaker headquartered in Geneva, with origins dating to 1830 and its manufacture at Les Brenets in the Swiss Jura.

Baumeister (magazine)

Baumeister is a German monthly architecture magazine published in Munich since 1902, one of the longest-running in the German-speaking world, now the flagship of publisher Georg Media.

Baumer (company)

Baumer, also known as the Baumer Group, is a Swiss family-owned manufacturer of sensors, encoders, and measuring instruments for factory and process automation, founded in Frauenfeld in 1952.