Sentences with phrase «even as a mathematician»

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■ Cardinal Nicolas of Cusa (1401 -1464), Bishop of Brixon mathematician as well as astronomer who postulated non-circular planetary orbits, developed a mathematical theory of relative motion, and even used concave lenses to correct near - sightedness.

The prospect of finally removing the logical incompleteness that has bedevilled even basic areas such as number theory is enough to get many mathematicians salivating.

Even UCLA's School of Dentistry counts as a serious player, with a collaboration between Benjamin Wu, DDS - PhD, and mathematician Stan Osher to determine, using partial differential equations, the optimal shape for a scaffold on which to grow tissue for transplants.

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.

As a quote attributed to mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot put it, «Even though economics is a very old subject, it has not truly come to grips with the main difficulty, which is the inordinate practical importance of a few extreme events.»

Mathematicians classify topological knots as identical if they have the same number of loops and crossings, even if their shapes appear drastically different.

As of now, Google is not allowing custom or vanity URL's for their new social networking site, leaving us with a series of numbers that even most mathematician's wouldn't remember.

James Marsden as David Sumner: Marsden's Davis is not a mathematician like Hoffman's, but in the movie world he's the same thing — he's an adapting screenwriter (his movie is even a «universal tale of the survival and the fighting spirit, AKA Straw Dogs).

But stop the presses; apparently there's an even bigger number coined by mathematician Ronald Lewis Graham (who, incidentally, is both past president of the American Mathematical Society and of the International Jugglers» Association), known as Graham's Number - but at this point I am totally out of my depth so am not even going to begin to attempt to describe his Very Big Number!

Building a book - length argument around his contention that «the seventeenth century is the moment when one world - view was displaced by another because the scientific displaced that of faith,» Grayling paints a picture of astronomers, mathematicians, medical doctors, and even alchemists often reaching conclusions that even they dearly hoped weren't true — because the answers meant opposing Christian doctrine, unwise if you wanted to keep your job, freedom or head... To my ear, though, the tone of the Grayling's prose is rather flat — think «textbook» and you've pretty much got it — so many of these unexpected sidelights are not presented as compellingly or dramatically as one might hope.

Lets even go as far as to say that all the world's leading mathematicians and scientists are wrong about the temperatures, and the oil industry has it right.

This is true even though, as mathematician to mathematician, I still disagree with you over some of the details of the future science.

Even if we assume that a mathematician, nuclear engineer, or veterinarian should qualify as a «scientist,» using the OISM's own criteria produces over 10.7 million «scientists» who have graduated from US universities since 1970.

[4] These concerns got the attention of several prominent mathematicians [5] over the years, such as Huygens, Bernoulli, de Moivre and others: [4] even Gauss and Laplace had an interest in matters pertaining to this instrument.