Sentences with phrase «as mathematicians who»

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.»

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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.

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.

Benoit Mandelbrot was a Polish - born mathematician and polymath, a Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University and IBM Fellow Emeritus (Physics) who developed a new branch of mathematics known as «Fractal» geometry.

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.

«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.

My only quibble with the article is that the proportion of mathematicians I know who view their field as «an escape from religious questions» is vanishingly small.

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.

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.

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.

One of their students was Nicholas of Cusa (c.1400 - 1464) who has often been regarded as the model of a «Renaissance man»; he became a cardinal, yet he was also a mathematician, a diagnostic physician, and an experimental scientist.

■ Cardinal Nicolas of Cusa (1401 -1464), Bishop of Brixon mathematician as well as astronomer who postulated non-circular planetary orbits, developed a mathematical theory of relative motion, and even used concave lenses to correct near - sightedness.

■ Bishop Nicholas of Oresme (1323 - 1382), Bishop of Lisieux who as a mathematician discovered how to combine exponents and developed graphs of mathematical functions and as a physicist explained the motion of the Sun by the rotation of the Earth and developed a more rigorous understanding of acceleration and inertia.

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..

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.

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.

This realism isn't a surprise since mathematician Ken Ono, who has made a career of studying Ramanujan's notebooks, served as a consultant on the film.

Maybe I'm overfamiliar with Ramanujan's story after reading both The Man Who Knew Infinity and Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology many times, but I was exasperated that this religious element was held up as the film's big reveal when Ramanujan's actions already made it obvious that he was a deeply spiritual man.

As an example of how someone gets this position, Mervis traced the career trajectory of mathematician Ben Mann, who was at the agency from 2004 to 2010.

Sure enough, when I asked Russell Howe, a staff mathematician who had taken the test years ago, to try it again with a new batch of objects, he radiated something akin to joy as he plucked out one item after another, describing their functions in loving detail as he pulled, twisted, bent, and manipulated.

Then there's mathematician Yitang «Tom» Zhang, who was completely unknown — as in zero peer - reviewed publications and an adjunct teaching job — when, in 2013, at the age of 57 and 12 years out from receiving his Ph.D., he submitted a paper that astounded the mathematical world by solving a long - standing problem in number theory.

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.

Darwin's wife, Emma, is played by Jennifer Connelly (Bettany's real - life wife), who is likewise on familiar ground: she was once cast as the spouse of another scientific genius, mathematician John Nash, in A Beautiful Mind.

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.

Steve: You wrote back in 1992: «I came to understand that there were thousands of people spread all around the world, mathematicians, physicists, philosophers, computer scientists, on and on, who thought of Martin Gardner's column not merely as a feature of Scientific American but as its very heart and soul.»

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.

And in the following years, while at the University of Paris Dauphine, he acted as the hub of a network of mathematicians, engineers, physicists and computer scientists who seemed to make new discoveries every week, Morel recalls.

No more: Bounceur, a 30 - year - old mathematician from Algeria who is also a member of Algeria's Berber cultural minority, renounced such trivial pursuits when he came to France as a master's graduate in operations research — a discipline that blends mathematics and statistics with computer science to pursue optimal solutions to complex problems — seeking better opportunities.

Never mind a delay of weeks or months — pity poor Thomas Hales, an American mathematician who has been waiting for five years to hear whether the mathematical community has accepted his 1998 proof of astronomer Johannes Kepler's 390 - year - old conjecture that the most efficient way to pack equal - size spheres (such as cannonballs on a ship, which is how the question arose) is to stack them in the familiar pyramid fashion that greengrocers use to stack oranges on a counter.

In the mid-14th century, mathematicians at Merton College in England who were referred to as the «Oxford Calculators,» and another scholar collaborating with them in Paris, were interested in understanding the velocity and displacement of an object over time.

Some black female mathematicians who I've talked to have stories about their graduate school experience that would make you think they went to school back in the»60s during the Civil Rights Era, as opposed to today.

Sir Isaac Newton, PRS, (4 January [O.S. 25 December 1642] 1643 to 31 March [O.S. 20 March] 1727) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor and natural philosopher who is generally regarded as one of the most influential scientists in history.

Researchers also observed that this network also activates in response to simply seeing numbers or mathematical formulae, among professional mathematicians as well as non-mathematicians (researchers at the same university level, but with no scientific training) who had participated in this experiment.

In fact, as «The Pregnant Mathematician» points out, when the test is evaluated mathematically, there is both a high rate of false positives and false negatives in women who may actually have GD.

The man who co-founded the online dating site OKCupid and now serves as CEO of Match.com got his start at a high school better known for turning out scientists and mathematicians than experts in finding love connections.

The 46 - year - old actress was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Dorothy Vaughan in the biographical drama which follows the story of African American female mathematicians who worked for NASA during the Space Race.

THE BANK In this timely 2001 drama from Australia about corporate shenanigans, Anthony LaPaglia steals the show as a greedy CEO who hires a mathematician to predict stock market patterns.

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.

The comedy relief comes from Charlie Day (It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia / Horrible Bosses) as Kaiju scientist Dr. Newt Geiszler who battles wits in a think tank against Burn Gorman (Game of Thrones / The Dark Knight Rises) as mathematician Dr. Hermann Gottlieb.

Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the genius British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the charge to crack the German Enigma Code that helped the Allies win WWII.

The film, about the black female mathematicians and engineers who helped put the first Americans in space, has been a hit with critics in Hollywood as well as moviegoers.

Heading into its third weekend, IFC Films added 154 locations for The Man Who Knew Infinity, starring Dev Patel as the Indian - born self - taught mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan who began an unlikely friendship with an eccentric professor (played by Jeremy Irons) at Cambridge University in 19Who Knew Infinity, starring Dev Patel as the Indian - born self - taught mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan who began an unlikely friendship with an eccentric professor (played by Jeremy Irons) at Cambridge University in 19who began an unlikely friendship with an eccentric professor (played by Jeremy Irons) at Cambridge University in 1913.

In THE IMITATION GAME, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the genius British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the charge to crack the German Enigma Code that helped the Allies win WWII.

Starring Dev Patel as the Indian - born self - taught mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan who began an unlikely friendship with an eccentric professor (played by Jeremy Irons) at Cambridge University in 1913 grossed $ 88,134.

The project follows Katherine Johnson (Henson), «a brilliant African - American mathematician who, along with her colleagues Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson, served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations -LSB-...]

The 38 - year - old actor - who is currently starring as gay mathematician Alan...

In A Beautiful Mind, Crowe plays a brilliant mathematician with no social skills who is diagnosed as a schizophrenic.

THE IMITATION GAME Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, in this biopic about the brilliant British mathematician who helped crack Nazi codes during World War II only to be prosecuted after the war for his homosexuality.

Hidden Figures Recently adapted to film — with Oscar nominations for best picture and best adapted screenplay — Margot Lee Shetterly's nonfiction book depicts the lives of four black women who, as mathematicians and engineers, helped send the first American astronaut into space.