Sentences with phrase «as mathematicians call»

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.»

Not exact matches

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.

Because this quantity is known as a polynomial, mathematicians call the problem a polynomial time, or class P, problem.

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

From extraordinarily simple, apparently unassailable assumptions called axioms (such as «Things that are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another»), Greek mathematician Euclid deduced surprising truths that seemed to apply unfailingly to the real world.

In the 1870s a German mathematician named Georg Cantor discovered a new system of numbers, called cardinals and ordinals, which for the first time, as Kruskal puts it, include actually infinite individual numbers.

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.»

Among Descartes» many contributions (he was a brilliant mathematician and scientist as well), the «cogito» (as philosophers call it) remains his most significant contribution to the history of ideas.