Sentences with phrase «mathematical nature of science»

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A few years later in 2009, the British science journal Nature featured Gourley's research on the mathematical structure of insurgencies in war - torn regions, like Iraq and Afghanistan, on its coveted cover.

Just as science must constantly revise its models so as to surmount the deficiencies of its abstract (usually mathematical) models of nature, so also religions are called upon continually to revise their enigmatic representations of cosmic significance in keeping with primary perceptions intuition of an ongoing cosmic adventure.

Science as it is usually understood is simply incapable of addressing the question of the possible purpose of nature since the material it deals with has already been abstracted out of the «qualitative» realm of value and placed in that of the merely quantifiable, subject only to mathematical calculation.

This must be one of the reasons why Whitehead devotes so much space to questions concerning the methods and principles of applying mathematical ideas to the phenomena of nature, and why he sees himself obliged to write that «all science as it grows to perfection becomes mathematical in its ideas» (IM 6).

«Although it's too early to declare victory, there's a good chance now that science will not be sidelined as would have been the case had the chair's proposal been adopted,» says Justin Cooke, a mathematical modeler in Freiburg, Germany, who represents the International Union for Conservation of Nature at the IWC meeting.

* Six Problems with the Contamination Explanation: Both mathematical analysis of the data, and the nature of some of the specimens, indicate that Science in Christian Perspective.

The scientists who fail to see the aesthetics in their science and the artists who fail to perceive the mathematical form in their subjects will always fall short in their respective interpretations of nature's design.»

His paintings, prints, and installation work probe science, specifically cosmology to arrive at compelling discussions about the relationship between science, nature, and art, the mathematical structures that design our physical world, and what lies beyond the borders of our universe.

Indeed, some contrarians seem to misunderstand the very nature of science, which consists of a web of facts and theory, different from a mathematical «proof».