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Stein Eriksen
Stein Eriksen (1927-2015), Norwegian alpine skier; won 1952 Oslo Olympic giant slalom gold and slalom silver, first non-Alpine-country Olympic alpine gold champion; later Deer Valley director of skiing.
Stein Mehren
Stein Mehren (1935–2017) was a Norwegian poet and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost lyricists in recent Norwegian literature, who published nearly 30 poetry collections and won major prizes.
Stein Rokkan
Stein Rokkan (1921–1979) was a Norwegian political scientist and sociologist, a founder of comparative politics and the first professor of sociology at the University of Bergen.
Stein variational gradient descent
Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD) is a particle-based variational inference algorithm introduced by Qiang Liu and Dilin Wang in 2016, which moves particles to approximate a target distribution.
Stein's method
Stein's method, also known as the Chen–Stein method, is a probability theory technique introduced by Charles Stein in 1972 for measuring how closely one distribution approximates another.
Steinar Amundsen
Steinar Amundsen (1945-2022), Norwegian sprint kayaker of the 'Gullfireren' quartet; Olympic K-4 1000 m gold 1968 and bronze 1972, world champion 1970 and 1975, 13 national titles.
Steiner system
A Steiner system S(t, k, v) is a combinatorial design in which v points and k-element blocks cover every set of t points exactly once.
Steiner tree problem
The Steiner tree problem, named after Swiss mathematician Jakob Steiner, asks for a minimum-cost tree connecting terminals in a graph or geometric space, and is NP-hard.
Steiner triple system
A Steiner triple system of order n is a set of n points whose triples cover every pair exactly once, existing only when n is 1 or 3 mod 6.
Steinernema carpocapsae
Steinernema carpocapsae (Neoaplectana carpocapsae, Weiser 1955) is an entomopathogenic nematode symbiotic with Xenorhabdus nematophila, an ambush forager sold as nemastar and Capsanem for biological control of caterpillars, weevils, and borers.
Steinert
Steinert is a German manufacturer of magnetic separation and sensor-based sorting equipment for recycling and mining, founded by Ferdinand Steinert in Cologne in 1889, with over 5,000 separators installed worldwide.
Steinhoff International
Steinhoff International was a global furniture and household-goods retailer, headquartered in South Africa, that collapsed in 2017 after a €6.5 billion accounting fraud was exposed.
Steinholding (sport)
Steinholding, or Masskrugstemmen, is an endurance sport where competitors hold a full one-liter beer stein at arm's length with a straight arm; last one holding with good form wins. U.S. records: 29:00 men, 6:10 women.
Steinkirchen
Steinkirchen, several German places named for a stone church. Best documented: Stephansposching (Bavaria), Roman Danube-limes fortlet (100-3rd century CE) and early medieval fortified church; also villages in Brandenburg and Upper Bavaria.
Steinmeyer (company)
Steinmeyer, formally August Steinmeyer GmbH & Co. KG, is a German family-owned manufacturer of high-precision ball screws, founded in 1920 and headquartered in Albstadt, Baden-Württemberg.
Steinn Steinarr
Steinn Steinarr, pen name of Aðalsteinn Kristmundsson (1908–1958), was an Icelandic poet from the Westfjords whose cycle Tíminn og vatnið marked the breakthrough of modernism in Icelandic poetry.
Steins;Gate (シュタインズ・ゲート)
Steins;Gate (シュタインズ・ゲート) is a 2009 science-fiction visual novel by 5pb. and Nitroplus in which Akihabara inventors send text messages to the past via a microwave, using the phone trigger system; adapted into a 2011 anime and remade as RE:BOOT in 2026.
Steins;Gate (シュタインズ・ゲート) (TV series)
Steins;Gate (シュタインズ・ゲート) is a 24-episode 2011 WHITE FOX anime TV series adapting the 5pb./Nitroplus visual novel, directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki and Takuya Satō, about D-mails that alter world lines; it earned Japan Media Arts Festival recognition and spawned Steins;Gate 0 and a 2013 film.
Steins;Gate 0 (シュタインズ・ゲート ゼロ)
Steins;Gate 0 (シュタインズ・ゲート ゼロ) is a 2015 science adventure visual novel by 5pb. and Nitroplus, an alternate-worldline sequel to Steins;Gate following Rintaro Okabe and the Amadeus AI, with smartphone-based route branching and five to six endings.
Steins;Gate 0 (シュタインズ・ゲート ゼロ) (TV series)
Steins;Gate 0 (シュタインズ・ゲート ゼロ) is a 24-episode 2018 White Fox anime directed by Kenichi Kawamura, set on the Beta worldline after Okabe gives up saving Kurisu, functioning as the final route of the 2015 visual novel rather than a conventional adaptation.
Steinsaltz edition of the Talmud
The Steinsaltz edition of the Talmud, or Steinsaltz talmud, is a re-edited, translated, and annotated Babylonian Talmud by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, begun in 1965 and completed in 2010.
Steinunn Sigurðardóttir
Steinunn Sigurðardóttir (born 1950 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic novelist and poet who debuted at 19 with the poetry collection Sífellur and has won the Icelandic Literary Prize twice.
Steinway & Sons
Steinway & Sons, founded 1853 by Henry E. Steinway in New York, is an American piano maker building handmade grands and uprights in New York and Hamburg, holding 150+ patents, owned since 2013 by Paulson & Co., with Boston and Essex as lower-priced lines.
Steiria
Steiria (Στειριά) was an ancient deme of Attica on the east coast between Prasiae and Brauron, near Porto Raphti; deme of Theramenes and Thrasybulus, linked by tradition to Stiris in Phocis.
Steklov Institute of Mathematics
Steklov Mathematical Institute of RAS (МИАН), the Russian Academy of Sciences' mathematics research institute in Moscow, founded 1932–1934 from the Physico-Mathematical Institute; St. Petersburg department independent since 1995.
Stela 1 of Aksum
Stela 1 of Aksum, also called the Great Stele, is a 4th-century decorated royal tomb marker at Aksum, Ethiopia, the largest stone ever raised, which fell during erection.
Stela of Amanineteyerike
The Stela of Amanineteyerike, known as the Great Inscription (Kawa IX), is a hieroglyphic stela at Kawa, Sudan, recording the fifth-century BC Kushite king's accession.
Stela of Anlamani
The Stela of Anlamani, also called the Anlamani stela from Kawa, is an Egyptian hieroglyphic stela of the Kushite king Anlamani, found at the temple town of Kawa in Sudan.
Stela of Ashurnasirpal II
The Stela of Ashurnasirpal II is a four-ton gypsum monument of the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 BC), erected outside the Temple of Ninurta at his capital Kalhu, modern Nimrud, Iraq.
Stela of Aspelta
The Stela of Aspelta, or Election Stela of Aspelta, is a granite stela from Gebel Barkal recording how the oracle of Amen-Ra chose Aspelta as Kush's king.