My father was
trained as a mathematician at the New York University Courant Institute, and then became an aeronautical engineer, designing flying machines and guidance systems for space exploration.
The «random walk» belongs to the study of certain seemingly random types of motion, from botanist Robert Brown's 19th - century observations of pollen floating on water as
well as mathematician Louis Bachelier's early 20th - centry application of Brown to model fluctuations in stock markets.
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.»
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.
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.»
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.
The film also sees the return of Jeff Goldblum
as mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm, playing the role for the first time since 1997's «The Lost World: Jurassic Park».
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).
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.
«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.
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.
The first owes much to his
experience as a mathematician concerned with axioms, with unnoticed assumptions, with what follows logically and what does not.
The anomalies of a plurality voting system can be more subtle, though,
as mathematician Donald Saari at the University of California, Irvine, showed.
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.
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.
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.
«Giulio approaches the
problem as a mathematician, and his favorite genome technology is his own mind — he saw a way to answer this question using data that was already in front of us, looking for patterns and relationships in the data instead of trying to sequence everything.»
As mathematicians from the 19th century onward ventured into ever greater heights of abstraction, the axiom - proof approach became an indispensable tool for handling concepts that were frequently counterintuitive.
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 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».
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.»
As mathematician G. H. Hardy once declared, «Beauty, not usefulness, is the true justification for mathematics.»
Octavia Spencer has an Oscar for her performance as the spirited Minny Jackson in «The Help,» and multiple nominations across the awards spectrum for performances in «Fruitvale Station,» as a commandeering mother, and
as mathematician Dorothy Vaughan in «Hidden Figures.»
In addition to its best picture nomination, «The Imitation Game», starring Benedict
Cumberbatch as mathematician Alan Turing, won nods for Cumberbatch as best actor, Keira Knightley for best supporting actress, Graham Moore for best screenplay and Alexandre Desplat for best score.
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.
Children need to feel
empowered as mathematicians and recognize that they are equipped with everything they need to be successful in mathematics.
This narrowing of curriculum is also evidenced by mathematics classrooms that look more like «test practice» classes than classrooms devoted to teaching students to think, problem solve, and
act as mathematicians.
Whatever the scale, the carvings delight the eye by the beauty of their material and the continuity of their lines, and reveal an organic quality which surprises those who think of
Gabo as a mathematician of synthetic materials.