Sentences with phrase «life as a mathematician»

And if he managed to make commercial living as a mathematician for forty odd years — i.e other people thought his work good enough to pay for, then that's a good start for me.

About Blog Mathematics, applications of mathematics to life in general, and my life as a mathematician.

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Modern mathematicians like Sir James Jeans can find in God, the Thinker, the final explanation of the starry heavens and of man's life; and a modern philosopher like Alfred North Whitehead can find God to be the vision of the whole and of what can be, and the mediating thought between them, as he contemplates or «envisages» the possible beauty of the harmonies among the worlds of flux.

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.

Just as all scientists must live with the ever - present possibility of experimental error, so too mathematicians, like our judicial system, may sometimes have to settle not for absolute proof but rather proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

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.

So, he spends most of his life — we think of Newton as a physicist or mathematician but he spends — he writes several million words of theology over the course of his life.

From there he made a movie based upon the life and achievements of British mathematician Alan Turing, the 2014 Oscar - nominated The Imitation Game in which Benedict Cumberbatch portrayed the father of what we recognize today as artificial intelligence.

We teach and explain to the students that as a mathematician you need to build knowledge, specific sets of knowledge as a mathematician, you need to problem solve real mathematical life problems, and you need to be able to do those two things independently.

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.

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As such, a comprehensive math tool enabling young mathematicians to view complex math terms in a real life context renders abstract math thinking more accessible.

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.

For «Conceiving Ada,» based on the life and work of Lord Byron's visionary mathematician daughter, Ada, Hershman Leeson created virtual sets that the actors could see on monitors as they performed in front of a blue screen.

Victor, that part of your whole comment at 259 that uses the term «trend» takes as an assumption a fundamental rejection of a large area of important mathematics (virtually all of statistics) and what many professional mathematicians do for a living.