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.
Not exact matches
«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.