Sentences with phrase «mathematical equivalent»

I have the mathematical equivalent of dyslexia and it is a burden when I bake.

He talks to Michael Marshall about drawing fire from Richard Dawkins, the perils of punishment, and devising the mathematical equivalent of the rules of religion

So Roebber applied a mathematical equivalent of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to the problem.

According to the Italian, Enrico Bombieri, who in 1974 won a Fields medal (the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel prize): «The structure of the whole proof is very tight and very solid.»

«Getting a perfect bracket is also the mathematical equivalent of picking the winning party of each presidential election through 2264.»

Yet even as we rely on numbers, we are bedeviled by innumeracy, the mathematical equivalent of illiteracy.

As a nation, we suffer from an ailment that John Allen Paulos, a Temple University math professor and an author, calls innumeracy — the mathematical equivalent of not being able to read.

That is, you do the mathematical equivalent of taking the fluctuating behavior of h around f given by the interaction of f and g to mean that the upward trend curve underlying h given by f doesn't exist when it does.

Nearly thirty years ago, it became obvious that, left to their own devices, and programmed with the mathematical equivalent of increasing carbon dioxide, they were predicting far too much warming.