Sentences with phrase «as a mathematician in»

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.

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

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The number of data professionals in Canada — people employed as statisticians, mathematicians and actuaries — has increased by 48 % over the past five years, making it the fastest - growing job category in the country.

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.

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

This year the list includes a science fiction novel in which the moon blows up as well as books by a mathematician and a biochemist.

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.

It's about the use of computation and game theory, as espoused by mathematician John Nash (the subject of the 2002 multi-Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind) in many applications.

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.

The firm is hiring cryptographers, mathematicians, physicists, and software developers for Ops Chain and the Blockchain Lab, which joins EY blockchain locations in London and Trivandrum, India, as part of the EY global research network.

Simon - Thomas, who co-authored the international friendships study with Facebook and Kogan, said that Kogan was known as a trustworthy a researcher and mathematician and that she was surprised to see him in the news.

First, much of the mathematics that is so spectacularly effective in physical theory was worked out as an abstract exercise by pure mathematicians long before it was applied to the real world....

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.

Or, in another instance, when the mathematician William Rowan Hamilton invented quaternions in the mid-nineteenth century, they were regarded as an ingenious but totally useless construct.

«Sir Isaac Newton PRS MP (25 December 1642 — 20 March 1727) was an English physicist and mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution.

On the other hand, he was also always a mathematician since, as he clearly indicates in the 1905 article, he seems to conceive of the world as a formal logical system.5 No wonder he regards metaphysics as a possible occupation.

Until the nineteenth century, mathematicians traditionally held that the axioms of geometry, arithmetic, and other disciplines could be established as self - evidently true statements about objects in space.

Indeed, the overwhelming consensus among mathematicians who work with transfinites is that transfinite mathematics entails no ontological commitment.4 In fact, when Platonic realism or Russellian logicism (which holds to the extra-mental reality of infinite sets) are employed as interpretations of infinite sets, we open the door to the very antinomies and problematics, such as the Burali - Forti antinomy and Russell's difficulty with sets and impredicative definitions, which have led mathematicians and philosophers of mathematics to new interpretations of set theory such as the axiomatic.

In a surprising move for a mathematician turned philosopher, Whitehead explicitly eschews the deductive method as the key procedure to be followed in elaborating metaphysical trutIn a surprising move for a mathematician turned philosopher, Whitehead explicitly eschews the deductive method as the key procedure to be followed in elaborating metaphysical trutin elaborating metaphysical truth.

Among philosophers, your very valid question is known as «Pascal's Wager,» because it was first posited by Blaise Pascal, a mathematician and philosopher in the 17th century.

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.

All the better that I felt similarly about another task which I was given (again without asking), in the same year (1925 - 26) to help A. N. Whitehead grade papers, hence listen to him lecture, and read what he wrote as a philosopher, rather than just a logician, mathematician, and physicist.

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.

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.

Among the feuds he describes are the high - profile clashes between Galileo and Urban VII over heliocentricism and between Thomas Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce over evolution, as well as less well known disputes such as that between Hobbes and the mathematician John Wallis over whether algebra was a legitimate development in mathematics or whether it was mere chicken - scratchings (Hobbes» position).

Aristotelian species are what mathematicians call «equivalence classes», so that if A is of the same species as B, and B is of the same species as C, then A must be of the same species as C. However, it does not appear possible in biology to define species in a way that always satisfies this condition.

In short, the student is emancipated from academic servility only as he has the opportunity in a real though often rudimentary fashion to be a practicing linguist, mathematician, scientist, artist or art critic, historian, philosopher, and theologiaIn short, the student is emancipated from academic servility only as he has the opportunity in a real though often rudimentary fashion to be a practicing linguist, mathematician, scientist, artist or art critic, historian, philosopher, and theologiain a real though often rudimentary fashion to be a practicing linguist, mathematician, scientist, artist or art critic, historian, philosopher, and theologian.

Mathematicians have calculated that within 100 years religion as we know it here in the states will only be practiced by a very small minority.

Modern mathematicians like Sir James Jeans can find in God, the Thinker, the final explanation of the starry heavens and of man's life; and a modern philosopher like Alfred North Whitehead can find God to be the vision of the whole and of what can be, and the mediating thought between them, as he contemplates or «envisages» the possible beauty of the harmonies among the worlds of flux.

The view that sees science and religion as parallel activities is exemplified by the theologian Raven (1953a, 1953b), to whom I referred earlier; the mathematician Coulson, particularly in Science and Christian Belief (1955); and biochemist and theologian Peacocke (1979, 1984, 1986).

In other words, as far as their subject is concerned, mathematicians are instinctive Platonists.

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 2011, college graduates were more likely to be employed as servers, bartenders and food - service helpers than as engineers, physicists, chemists and mathematicians.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin 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.&raquin the sand.»

Hippodamus's problem, Aristotle seems to indicate, was that he reasoned in politics as a kind of mathematician or rationalist, rather than as a political scientist.

Ancient as in ancient greek mathematicians wondered if you could make a square and a circle both covering an equally large area with nothin but a straight edge and a compass.

But Llull was regarded in his time as an incomprehensible mathematician - mystic, and his (actually wise and visionary) voting procedures were not used in 1294.

But the politicians who dole out money aren't particularly interested in funding mathematicians because that isn't going to win any appreciable number of votes - but wasteful spending will lose votes, as will cuts to welfare, nutrition programs, education, etc..

Genius mathematicians probably also make fairly amazing pharmaceutical researchers, entrepreneurs, or engineers, so conceivably there could be more advances in the applied sciences and wealth creation in a world without as much math research.

The students who trained by such top - level mathematicians will then be able to to learn and apply new mathematical results in other areas, such as applied mathematics, computer science, physics, computational biology, economics, etc., and thus stimulate scientific progess also in «applied» sciences.

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.

In June 2013, UCLA mathematician Terence Tao initiated the «polymath8 project» in the hopes of reducing the fixed constant H from 70 million to as low a value as possible — ideally all the way down to 2, which would prove the twin prime conjecture outrighIn June 2013, UCLA mathematician Terence Tao initiated the «polymath8 project» in the hopes of reducing the fixed constant H from 70 million to as low a value as possible — ideally all the way down to 2, which would prove the twin prime conjecture outrighin the hopes of reducing the fixed constant H from 70 million to as low a value as possible — ideally all the way down to 2, which would prove the twin prime conjecture outright.

In fact, the twin prime conjecture had «earned the reputation among most mathematicians in the field as hopeless in the sense that there is no known unconditional approach for tackling it,» according to a 2005 paper written by mathematicians Daniel Goldston, János Pintz and Cem YildiriIn fact, the twin prime conjecture had «earned the reputation among most mathematicians in the field as hopeless in the sense that there is no known unconditional approach for tackling it,» according to a 2005 paper written by mathematicians Daniel Goldston, János Pintz and Cem Yildiriin the field as hopeless in the sense that there is no known unconditional approach for tackling it,» according to a 2005 paper written by mathematicians Daniel Goldston, János Pintz and Cem Yildiriin the sense that there is no known unconditional approach for tackling it,» according to a 2005 paper written by mathematicians Daniel Goldston, János Pintz and Cem Yildirim.

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

Other mathematicians joined Tao in this endeavor and, as of July 2014, H has been cut to 246, with further reductions still possible.

As one grantee, mathematician - theologian William Dembski, writes in his book The Design Revolution: «There are natural systems that can not be adequately explained in terms of undirected natural forces and that exhibit features which in any other circumstance we would attribute to intelligence.»

Conceived and built in the 1950s by mathematician Leland Sprinkle, the organ produces tones using rubber - tipped mallets to strike stalactites as its keys are played.

In contrast to some «pure» mathematicians, Crowdy is emphatic that mathematicians need to take care their work is not esoteric, and that communicating its relevance within mathematics and to the other science communities as paramount to succeeding.

In May we invited scientists, engineers, mathematicians, doctors and others to volunteer to visit classrooms as part of our three - year (that's the 1,000 days) Change the Equation program.