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Marvel Comics character
Colossus is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum, he first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Colossus (character)A 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: An update on the Colossus mK platform at FermilabInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: H. M. S. "Colossus"The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: COLOSSUS: A Python Toolkit for Cosmology, Large-scale Structure, and Dark Matter HalosCited 528 times
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📖 Definitions
Noun A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Noun Any creature or thing of gigantic size.
Noun Somebody or something very greatly admired and respected.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
COLOSSUS: A Python Toolkit for Cosmology, Large-scale Structure, and Dark Matter Halos
SHADOW OF A COLOSSUS: A z = 2.44 GALAXY PROTOCLUSTER DETECTED IN 3D Lyα FOREST TOMOGRAPHIC MAPPING OF THE COSMOS FIELD
The U.S. car colossus and the production of inequality
Shotgun assembly of the assassin bug Brontostoma colossus mitochondrial genome (Heteroptera, Reduviidae)
The Colossus of Ubiquitylation: Decrypting a Cellular Code
Dynamic FE analysis of South Memnon Colossus including 3D soil–foundation–structure interaction
Inoculation of container-grown Douglas-fir seedlings with basidiospores of Rhizopogonvinicolor and R. colossus: effects of fertility and spore application rate
A Geomatics Approach in Scan to FEM Process Applied to Cultural Heritage Structure: The Case Study of the “Colossus of Barletta”
🆕 Influential since 2022
An update on the Colossus mK platform at Fermilab
Shadows of the Colossus: Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in a 10-million-body Globular Cluster Simulation
Ganopyrone A, a highly rearranged lanostane triterpenoid with antimalarial activity from artificially cultivated fruiting bodies of Ganoderma colossus
Shadow of the colossus: Euro area spillovers and monetary policy in Central and Eastern Europe
Downsizing a heavyweight: factors and methods that revise weight estimates of the giant fossil whale Perucetus colossus
📚 Books worth reading
H. M. S. "Colossus"Roland Morris · 1979- 📕Wrecking CrewBernd Horn · 2019
The Guinea-PigsRaymond Foxall · 1981- 📕Anatomy of a ColossusKoppers Company · 1966
Wreck of the ColossusTodd Stevens · 2007- 📕"Di morire non mi importa gran cosa"A. Affortunati · 2004
- 📕Eraclio, imperatore d'Oriente e campione della fedeDuilio Maglio · 2011
- 📕Le due vite del ColossoLuisa Derosa, Giambattista De Tommasi · 2019
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