Sentences with phrase «as mathematicians say»

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.

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«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.
«Invention,» as the French mathematician Henri Poincarà ‰ said, «is discernment, choice.»
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.
As the old joke says, «math is what mathematicians do.»
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.
As to your second paragraph, you said; «Now imagine within this land of reality there were significant numbers of engineers, physicians, mathematicians and research scientists with terminal degrees who also embraced this God.
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.»
(And I say this as a professional 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.
In particular, he says, the initiative will support a new breed of neuroscientist, one trained not as a classical brain researcher but as a physicist or mathematician, computer scientist or engineer — researchers who may never have received NIH funding before.
«I sold myself as an applied mathematician who could solve any problem,» she says.
Back when he first started at JPL, he says, he felt frustrated as a mathematician reduced to doing mundane engineering.
As this facility and other research bases have increased their scientific capacity in recent decades, the scientists who come to remote areas have evolved to include not just hardened outdoorsy veterans «with big, bushy beards,» Cox says, but also mathematicians, software engineers, and statisticians.
And I don't [mean] to limit it to mathematicians, because as I say he was involved in many fields: the philosophy of science, the philosophy of mind, the magic debunking, and poetry.
And he just had a way of coaxing creativity out of people and inspiring people; and when I say people, I mean they ranged from those who are simply lovers of mathematics without necessarily having world class talent to world class mathematicians such as Don Knuth and John Conway and Ron Graham, who was the president of the American Mathematical Society, and a great juggler incidentally; and also I think Ron may be a magician although I am not positive of that.
But funding for conservation is finite, and one outspoken camp of researchers, led by ecologist and mathematician Hugh Possingham of the University of Queensland in Australia, says it is time for the global rescue operation to adopt the mind - set of a battlefield medic: Some endangered species are far more likely to recover than others, so we should identify those and save as many as we can.
At Philips Research, mathematicians also work on data encryption as well as data compression and signal processing, says Jan ter Maten, a senior scientist at the Philips site in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
«I think of myself as an applied mathematician, applying math to sculpture,» Hart says.
It is «also a little ironic or paradoxical» that the new road map has been approved as a boost to Spain's economy «at the same time when the situation that is being lived... in the universities and research centers is almost dramatic, and a matter of survival,» says Carlos Andradas Heranz, a mathematician at the Complutense University of Madrid and president of the Confederation of Spanish Scientific Societies.
One pattern jumped out: Species that are stronger fliers, as measured by wing shape, tend to lay more elliptical or asymmetrical eggs, says study coauthor L. Mahadevan, a mathematician and biologist at Harvard University.
«I like them both,» he says, «but I don't know how I'd do as a mathematician
The prize will raise the awareness of mathematics as the «lingua franca for all science,» says Arnfinn Laudal, a mathematician at the University of Oslo.
Dr Reiko Tanaka, one of the study's authors from the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, said: «It is amazing to think that an abstract concept for a shape devised by the mathematician Lord Kelvin over a century ago may be an important shape in nature, helping our skin to maintain its effectiveness as barrier.
Hidden Figures, about black women who worked as expert mathematicians for NASA in the early years of the space race, says the opposite: It wants to tell you that these women were stars unjustly deprived of a spotlight.
A famous mathematician is quoted as saying «There are only two types of statistics.
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.
And they're giving students the experience, as assessment expert Grant Wiggins says, «of being tested the way historians, mathematicians, museum curators, scientists, and journalists are actually tested in the workplace.»
But just as no self - respecting pianist would have you believe that his musical education ended with the ability to read the notes in a score, no self - respecting mathematician would say the symbols on the page are the actual math.
Nationally, some mathematicians have criticized the Common Core for delaying coverage of certain topics, such as algebra, and said the math standards don't match up to those of high - performing countries such as Singapore.
As the mathematician Bronowski said, paraphrasing here, the scientist can not dodge the implications of his or her own work.
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.
I would be happy for any real mathematician to solve this complex problem and say exactly, «How much water is needed for a rise of 1 meter and up to the limit of the BS that gets said, and «where all the water is going to come from» all I wanted to do was to point out that all the talk about rises of 20 meters is such BS, as the water does not exist to do that, me I think that if all the ice did melt then you would be lucky to get a 1 meter rise, no one would be more thrilled than me if this math was worked out better than I can do it.
As you said in post # 25 «If a consensus of respected mathematicians and scientists from outside the field of climatology...» That's something I'm going to be hard pushed to be!
So if I claim 23092039580349582 is a prime number and nobody can be bothered with replying in a scientific manner (no, saying it can be divided by 2 doesn't cut it), this claim will hold and everyone in my community will now celebrate and use this number as evidence that mathematicians are all wrong because the claim has not been refuted in a blog's comment section despite obviously being false?
The applied mathematicians there say «The question of what is applied mathematics does not answer to logical classification so much as to the sociology of professionals who use mathematics.»
Thus we might say, that as an Artist is a Musician, Painter, or Poet, a Scientist is a Mathematician, Physicist, or Naturalist.»
Whilst you bring up mathematics as a subject too, let me say that mathematicians may present as most impressive but they are not scientists.
As Blaise Pascal (French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and philosopher) famously said, «I would have written a shorter letter, but I ran out of time.»
I hope not, but that's beyond my competence as a mathematician to say; ask a lawyer.
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.
The fact that a mathematician could be considered, as he is, a «rock star» — or, better yet, «the Lady Gaga of mathematics» — says perhaps more about the French than Villani.
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