Sentences with phrase «greats as the mathematician»

They have bedazzled such greats as the mathematician David Hilbert.

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As neil degrasse tyson pointed out, each of our great mathematicians and scientists throughout the centuries reached their limit and declared God did it... only to have the next guy push though that barrier, reach their own limit... and claim the same... This lady has the benefit of history and science at her finger tips, and judging by her credentials is no stranger to the scientific process, and still fell into the same trap...

This is somewhat famous as its adoption as an axiom was somewhat controversial, and moreso because it took some great mathematicians to prove that the Axiom of Choice is actually independent of the other axioms of set theory.

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.»

Whitehead brought to his task great distinction as a mathematician and logician, but his procedure was not what we might expect on the basis of a usual understanding of these disciplines.

Galileo, Kepler, and Newton would largely agree, conceiving of God as they did as a great clock - maker and mathematician.

Mathematicians investigating one of science's great questions — how to unite the physics of the very big with that of the very small — have discovered that when the understanding of complex networks such as the brain or the Internet is applied to geometry the results match up with quantum behavior.

To mathematicians, great theorems and great proofs, such as Euclid's elegant proof of the infinity of primes, have about them what Bertrand Russell described as «a beauty cold and austere,» akin to the beauty of great works of sculpture.

But Bell also read in Born's book that another great of the interwar generation, the Hungarian mathematician and physicist John von Neumann, had published a proof as early as 1932 demonstrating that hidden variables could not be made compatible with quantum mechanics.

Known as the n - body problem, it has stumped the world's greatest mathematicians for 400 years.

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.

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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-...]

We all know that you need to take risks as a mathematician, and it's not until you start to ask kids to rate themselves in terms of contributing ideas or how comfortable do you feel asking a teacher a question or how comfortable do you feel telling your peer that they got it wrong, and you really start to break down what does it mean to take a risk in mathematics, that if you don't know your students and you don't apply teaching strategies to make an impact on those actual kids that you're doing the research for, then your impact is not going to be that great.

As we approach a point where some of the fundamental scientific questions are being resolved (e.g. the human genome, a unified theory and understanding of the origin of the universe), there has been an explosion of interest in the lives of great mathematicians and scientists.

As a mathematician, I am nothing great, but my intuition has been a great help to me at many points.

I know how research biologists think quite well, and most of them aren't great mathematicians, as they'll usually freely admit.