Sentences with phrase «same as a mathematician»

Is your view the same as a mathematician or statistician would use?

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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...

All the better that I felt similarly about another task which I was given (again without asking), in the same year (1925 - 26) to help A. N. Whitehead grade papers, hence listen to him lecture, and read what he wrote as a philosopher, rather than just a logician, mathematician, and physicist.

Aristotelian species are what mathematicians call «equivalence classes», so that if A is of the same species as B, and B is of the same species as C, then A must be of the same species as C. However, it does not appear possible in biology to define species in a way that always satisfies this condition.

Although mathematicians generate the set dot by dot, this is not the same as having a single equation which defines every point.

SEVENTY years ago, the Polish mathematicians Stefan Banach and Alfred Tarski proved that you can cut a sphere into six pieces and reassemble them to make two spheres, each the same size as the original.

Twelve years later, French scientist and mathematician Pierre Simon de Laplace arrived at the same conclusion and offered mathematical proof for the existence of what we now know as black holes.

Ancient Greek mathematicians and astronomers were using geometry around the same time, but only to make calculations involving real, 3D space, such as using circles torepresent the orbits of planets around Earth.

From extraordinarily simple, apparently unassailable assumptions called axioms (such as «Things that are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another»), Greek mathematician Euclid deduced surprising truths that seemed to apply unfailingly to the real world.

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.

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.

Mathematicians classify topological knots as identical if they have the same number of loops and crossings, even if their shapes appear drastically different.

James Marsden as David Sumner: Marsden's Davis is not a mathematician like Hoffman's, but in the movie world he's the same thing — he's an adapting screenwriter (his movie is even a «universal tale of the survival and the fighting spirit, AKA Straw Dogs).

«As explained by mathematician William L. Paschke, Chaos Theory posits that, «if you do the same simple thing over and over, beautiful patterns can emerge, and, more importantly, sometimes if you change the starting point by just a tiny little bit, you can get a completely different - looking pattern.»

Just as a mathematician presents his proof or a physicist his equations for examination and verification, so should climate scientist code be presented for same.

On the other hand, formally verified software can be tested with the same certainty as mathematicians prove theorems — and the code really does read like a mathematical proof.