Sentences with phrase «as a mathematician at»

As a mathematician at heart with an introverted personality, she needs solitude and complete silence to concentrate on the details and complexities of her work which includes finding real estate that matches to her customer's needs and keeping the finances up to date for my many ventures.

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When she finished in January 1945, her calculus teacher showed her a flier soliciting women mathematicians to work at the University of Pennsylvania, where women were working as «computers» — humans who performed routinized math tasks — mainly calculating artillery trajectory tables for the Army.

More than a few people view Secunda, a gruff 59 - year - old trained as a mathematician, as the mad genius behind the terminal, a wizard at connecting the worlds of technology and finance.

Earlier this week the Yale - educated mathematician, only one month into his new gig as a Googler, told the tale of how he snagged a coveted software engineer position at Google in a revealing blog post on The Hustle.

W. Edwards Deming, trained as a mathematician and statistician, went to Japan at the behest of the U.S. State Department to help Japan in the preparation of the 1951 Japanese Census.

Benoit Mandelbrot was a Polish - born mathematician and polymath, a Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University and IBM Fellow Emeritus (Physics) who developed a new branch of mathematics known as «Fractal» geometry.

As a famous mathematician and philosopher once said: «There is a point at which the probability of a series of coincidences occurring within a given time period exceeds the possibility that they are, in fact, coincidences.

@Maani: «As a famous mathematician and philosopher once said: «There is a point at which the probability of a series of coincidences occurring within a given time period exceeds the possibility that they are, in fact, coincidences.

As neil degrasse tyson pointed out, each of our great mathematicians and scientists throughout the centuries reached their limit and declared God did it... only to have the next guy push though that barrier, reach their own limit... and claim the same... This lady has the benefit of history and science at her finger tips, and judging by her credentials is no stranger to the scientific process, and still fell into the same trap...

Whitehead, another mathematician - physicist - philosopher, had a similar view Thus our theological scheme is no longer as seriously at odds with science or the philosophy of science as it was in the days of classical or Newtonian physics.

A contrasting difference is that Peirce had a powerful mathematician as father who tutored him in that subject, helped him in other ways, but was almost brutally unkind at times and a possible cause of a psychosomatic illness in his son.

Whitehead's biographers, as a rule, have distinguished three phases in his intellectual development and, using as their criterion the professor's change of location, have spoken of the mathematician at Cambridge (1884 - 1910), the philosopher of nature in London (1910 - 1924), and the metaphysician at Harvard (1924 - 1947)(cf. DWP).

In unfolding it, in order to show his own cleverness and reading, and satisfy itching ears, he proceeded with a new method, expounding letters, syllables and proposition, the harmony of noun and verb, and that of noun substantive, and noun adjective... At last he... demonstrated the whole Trinity to be represented by these first rudiments of grammar, as clearly and plainly as it was possible for a mathematician to draw a triangle in the sand.»

STPF Director Jennifer Pearl, 2002 - 03 Executive Branch Fellow, brings an inquisitive and data - driven mentality to the position, bolstered by 12 years of experience at the National Science Foundation, training as a mathematician and her upbringing in a family of public school educators.

I was in high school — he was tenured faculty at a top research university — yet he recognized me as a mathematician.

As an example of how someone gets this position, Mervis traced the career trajectory of mathematician Ben Mann, who was at the agency from 2004 to 2010.

In my second year as a graduate student at Cambridge, I attended the International Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam.

Then there's mathematician Yitang «Tom» Zhang, who was completely unknown — as in zero peer - reviewed publications and an adjunct teaching job — when, in 2013, at the age of 57 and 12 years out from receiving his Ph.D., he submitted a paper that astounded the mathematical world by solving a long - standing problem in number theory.

Berlyne, author of an interesting but very mechanistic theory of experimental aesthetics, finds himself the keynote speaker in a chapter which, after some elementary physiology of the human eye, is almost entirely metaphysical, discussing at length the absolute truths expressed in mathematics and, by analogy, in music, and posing the question as to whether God did or did not put them there for mathematicians and musicians to find.

Back when he first started at JPL, he says, he felt frustrated as a mathematician reduced to doing mundane engineering.

As a mathematician and, later, an engineer at Langley, Mary Jackson worked on experimental supersonic aircraft, analysing how air flowed over every tiny feature, right down to the rivets.

And in the following years, while at the University of Paris Dauphine, he acted as the hub of a network of mathematicians, engineers, physicists and computer scientists who seemed to make new discoveries every week, Morel recalls.

As a child Brassard wanted to be a mathematician, but he became fascinated with programming when he took a computer science course at the Université de Montréal, which he entered at age 13.

Knots occur naturally in many molecular systems such as folding proteins and DNA, notes Louis Kauffman, a mathematician at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Twelve years later, French scientist and mathematician Pierre Simon de Laplace arrived at the same conclusion and offered mathematical proof for the existence of what we now know as black holes.

In the mid-14th century, mathematicians at Merton College in England who were referred to as the «Oxford Calculators,» and another scholar collaborating with them in Paris, were interested in understanding the velocity and displacement of an object over time.

As a young mathematician in the 1950s, the late Don Newman taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology alongside rising star and Nobel - laureate - to - be John Nash.

At Philips Research, mathematicians also work on data encryption as well as data compression and signal processing, says Jan ter Maten, a senior scientist at the Philips site in Eindhoven, the NetherlandAt Philips Research, mathematicians also work on data encryption as well as data compression and signal processing, says Jan ter Maten, a senior scientist at the Philips site in Eindhoven, the Netherlandat the Philips site in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

To tackle scientific problems that would exceed by far the capabilities of individual public as well as private universities, geoscientists and mathematicians at IUB have recently established an international consortium.

Occasionally, industrial mathematicians even push the frontiers of knowledge, as in the mathematical description of surfaces made by Paul de Casteljau, a researcher at Citroën, and later Pierre Bézier, a researcher at Renault, for the modelling of car bodies.

It seems Aron here means «stronger» in the everyday sense of «tough», not the sense I use at work as a mathematician — «able to prove more things».

It is «also a little ironic or paradoxical» that the new road map has been approved as a boost to Spain's economy «at the same time when the situation that is being lived... in the universities and research centers is almost dramatic, and a matter of survival,» says Carlos Andradas Heranz, a mathematician at the Complutense University of Madrid and president of the Confederation of Spanish Scientific Societies.

One pattern jumped out: Species that are stronger fliers, as measured by wing shape, tend to lay more elliptical or asymmetrical eggs, says study coauthor L. Mahadevan, a mathematician and biologist at Harvard University.

Researchers also observed that this network also activates in response to simply seeing numbers or mathematical formulae, among professional mathematicians as well as non-mathematicians (researchers at the same university level, but with no scientific training) who had participated in this experiment.

Around ten years ago researcher Dave Bacon, now at Google, showed that a time - travelling quantum computer could quickly solve a group of problems, known as NP - complete, which mathematicians have lumped together as being hard.

The prize will raise the awareness of mathematics as the «lingua franca for all science,» says Arnfinn Laudal, a mathematician at the University of Oslo.

Earlier this month, a free repository at Cornell University for technical papers that has become a wire service of sorts for physicists, mathematicians and other disciplines, named ArXiv, marked a major milestone as the number of papers collected there reached the half - million mark.

Dr Reiko Tanaka, one of the study's authors from the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, said: «It is amazing to think that an abstract concept for a shape devised by the mathematician Lord Kelvin over a century ago may be an important shape in nature, helping our skin to maintain its effectiveness as barrier.

This occurred about 2 weeks after he had discovered another comet, on June 14, which became known as Comet Lexell; unusually, this comet was not named for its discoverer, Charles Messier, but for the calculator of its orbit, Anders Lexell, a Finnish astronomer and mathematician working at St. Petersburg Observatory.

By working with mathematician Alex Townsend at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., the teen found that four - sided shapes — such as rhombuses or trapezoids — worked better than triangles to analyze the problem.

A mathematician by training, after he graduated from Princeton in 1978 and earned a PhD in math in 1981 at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, he taught managerial economics at Harvard Business School from 1981 to 1990.

The man who co-founded the online dating site OKCupid and now serves as CEO of Match.com got his start at a high school better known for turning out scientists and mathematicians than experts in finding love connections.

Heading into its third weekend, IFC Films added 154 locations for The Man Who Knew Infinity, starring Dev Patel as the Indian - born self - taught mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan who began an unlikely friendship with an eccentric professor (played by Jeremy Irons) at Cambridge University in 1913.

Starring Dev Patel as the Indian - born self - taught mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan who began an unlikely friendship with an eccentric professor (played by Jeremy Irons) at Cambridge University in 1913 grossed $ 88,134.

We have the potential, here, to solve two problems at once: the reputation of our subject as elitist and boring (by portraying a wider range of activities in maths) and the shortage of good maths teachers (by encouraging a stronger pipeline of diverse mathematicians at every level from early years to teacher training and beyond).

At the center of reform is the idea of students as proactive learners — readers, writers, and mathematicians — rather than simply recipients of learning from a teacher.

The team from Bilton Junior School took part in the final on Wednesday 7th December at Cambridge University where they were revealed as winners and presented their trophies by Stefan Gates, popular CBBC presenter and this year's official Ambassador for the National Young Mathematicians» Awards.

Hopefully if I keep at it my students will become more confident and independent mathematicians and therefore as a matter of course they are able to succeed at the new GCSE.

It would reflect the skills needed at each age: for young mathematicians, understanding one to one correspondence, numeracy and at least addition as an operation.

«At KIPP PEACE, we focus on cultivating each student's oral language development and foundational literacy and math skills so that our students leave fourth grade as «ready readers» and «mathematicians.»