Sentences with phrase «gabo as a mathematician»

«I will say that both pursuits appeal to a sense of aesthetics and elegance, and that the self - officiated nature of Ultimate conforms to philosophies of truth and honesty which I hold as a mathematician,» writes Peter Behr, a designer who studied math, on Quora.

Eric Schadt, a well - regarded thought leader in genomics, began his career as a mathematician.

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.

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.

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.

A distinguished English mathematician, Sylvester, said of Charles Peirce, that he was a «much greater» mathematician than his father, Benjamin.14 The word «great» has not been used of Whitehead as mathematician, though his pupil Bertrand Russell said of him that as teacher of that sub1ect he was «perfect.»

The foundations for real numbers, which physicists as well as mathematicians must have in order to do their work, were insecure under the thesis of Principia Mathematica.

I've long been fascinated by cosmology, although my deficiencies as a mathematician preclude my really following the arguments of astrophysicists, high - energy particle physicists, and others exploring the origins of the universe.

Whitehead brought to his task great distinction as a mathematician and logician, but his procedure was not what we might expect on the basis of a usual understanding of these disciplines.

■ Bishop Nicholas of Oresme (1323 - 1382), Bishop of Lisieux who as a mathematician discovered how to combine exponents and developed graphs of mathematical functions and as a physicist explained the motion of the Sun by the rotation of the Earth and developed a more rigorous understanding of acceleration and inertia.

The first owes much to his experience as a mathematician concerned with axioms, with unnoticed assumptions, with what follows logically and what does not.

Alas I am not especially tall or athletic so I chose the next obvious career as a mathematician.

Good communication skills are important, but «as mathematicians, we will be very cautious not being [impressed] by people who talk very well but the depth is not there,» Bourguignon says.

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.

Eight dimensions is a rarefied space that is home to the octonions — «the crazy old uncle nobody lets out of the attic», as mathematician John Baez of the University of California, Riverside, puts it.

Prime numbers — those that are divisible only by 1 and themselves — aren't quite as random as mathematicians thought.

As mathematician Jeff Bergen of DePaul University explains, there are more than 9 quintillion ways — a 9 followed by 18 zeros — to fill out the diagram of all the NCAA tournament pairings and outcomes (aka, the bracket).

The universe — or God, if you like — can be thought of as a mathematician revealing ever more of the fundamentally unpredictable structure of math, thereby giving rise to cosmically surprising patterns of rafts, or frameworks for geometric reality.

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

As mathematician Anne Kandler of the Santa Fe Institute notes, the only way the old tongues will stick around is if populations themselves decide that there is something of value in them, whether for reasons of patriotism, cultural heritage, or just to lure in some language - curious tourists.

As a mathematician, Belbruno knew that finding the right trajectory meant tackling the most difficult part of the three - body problem: chaos.

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.

But while Mena found opportunities to grow as a mathematician in his native Ecuador, he was also confronted with bureaucracy and a lack of autonomy.

Suppose you have two groups of objects, or two «sets,» as mathematicians would call them: a set of cars and a set of drivers.

The main adjustment I had to make from school to work was learning to reason deductively, instead of inductively as mathematicians do best.

It was extremely hard work, because the ERC was flooded with applications, but we survived and learned a lot from each other as mathematicians.

It also helps that the chair of UCLA's human genetics department, Kenneth Lange, was trained as a mathematician.

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».

«I like them both,» he says, «but I don't know how I'd do as a mathematician.»

Essentially, the researchers used a technique called stochastic optimization, which is a method to determine a central pattern from a group of data that seem chaotic or, as mathematicians call it, «noisy.»

Ramanujan posited that this pattern should go on forever, and that similar patterns exist when 5 is replaced by 7 or 11 — there are infinite sequences of p (n) that are all divisible by 7 or 11, or, as mathematicians say, in which the «moduli» are 7 or 11.

Nobody, perhaps, was as sad to see the company go as mathematicians who had become obsessed with Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk, the so - called «Rolls Royce of chalk.»

Those signing the letter include the world's largest scientific society, American Chemical Society, and groups that represent meteorologists, public health experts, biologists, Earth scientists, oceanographers, geologists, crop researchers, bug, fish and reptile experts, as well as mathematicians and statisticians.

As mathematician G. H. Hardy once declared, «Beauty, not usefulness, is the true justification for mathematics.»

The comedy relief comes from Charlie Day (It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia / Horrible Bosses) as Kaiju scientist Dr. Newt Geiszler who battles wits in a think tank against Burn Gorman (Game of Thrones / The Dark Knight Rises) as mathematician Dr. Hermann Gottlieb.

- Octavia Spencer and Taraji P. Henson added as mathematicians in Hidden Figures.

Keira Knightley is refreshing as mathematician, friend and fiancée Joan Clarke, while Mark Strong (with hair!)

Provide time for students to discover their part in becoming persistent as mathematicians.

We all know that you need to take risks as a mathematician, and it's not until you start to ask kids to rate themselves in terms of contributing ideas or how comfortable do you feel asking a teacher a question or how comfortable do you feel telling your peer that they got it wrong, and you really start to break down what does it mean to take a risk in mathematics, that if you don't know your students and you don't apply teaching strategies to make an impact on those actual kids that you're doing the research for, then your impact is not going to be that great.

The girls were getting stuck in a couple of areas regarding the standard, and were developing negative feelings about math and about themselves as mathematicians.

We teach and explain to the students that as a mathematician you need to build knowledge, specific sets of knowledge as a mathematician, you need to problem solve real mathematical life problems, and you need to be able to do those two things independently.

We felt some urgency to try something new, and the new thing we tried had to be engaging and fun, and provide ways for the girls to again see themselves as mathematicians.

But because it was, in part, a reaction to the new math and those believed responsible for it, NCTM did not, as mathematicians point out, promote a lively public debate, as had the creators of the new math, but suppressed it.

As a mathematician, Hrabowski has particularly devoted himself to creating pathways in science, engineering, and math for underrepresented students and faculty, transforming his public institution, once a commuter school, into a prominent research center and an incubator of talent and ideas, said HGSE Dean James Ryan in introducing him.

Is your view the same as a mathematician or statistician would use?

Readers will find geneticists, volcanologists, and primatologists, as well as mathematicians and chemists.

Hidden Figures Recently adapted to film — with Oscar nominations for best picture and best adapted screenplay — Margot Lee Shetterly's nonfiction book depicts the lives of four black women who, as mathematicians and engineers, helped send the first American astronaut into space.

Creatively combining the Notice Wonder strategy with a numberless word problem helps students see themselves as mathematicians.

Socrates and Aristotle were not described as mathematicians or writers but as philosophers.