Sentences with phrase «well as mathematician»

The «random walk» belongs to the study of certain seemingly random types of motion, from botanist Robert Brown's 19th - century observations of pollen floating on water as well as mathematician Louis Bachelier's early 20th - centry application of Brown to model fluctuations in stock markets.

The foundations for real numbers, which physicists as well as mathematicians must have in order to do their work, were insecure under the thesis of Principia Mathematica.

Those signing the letter include the world's largest scientific society, American Chemical Society, and groups that represent meteorologists, public health experts, biologists, Earth scientists, oceanographers, geologists, crop researchers, bug, fish and reptile experts, as well as mathematicians and statisticians.

Readers will find geneticists, volcanologists, and primatologists, as well as mathematicians and chemists.

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Eric Schadt, a well - regarded thought leader in genomics, began his career as a mathematician.

This year the list includes a science fiction novel in which the moon blows up as well as books by a mathematician and a biochemist.

Created by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge, the Enterprise Immune System uses AI algorithms to automatically detect and take action against cyber-threats within all types of networks, including physical, cloud and virtualized networks, as well as IoT and industrial control systems.

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.

Among the feuds he describes are the high - profile clashes between Galileo and Urban VII over heliocentricism and between Thomas Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce over evolution, as well as less well known disputes such as that between Hobbes and the mathematician John Wallis over whether algebra was a legitimate development in mathematics or whether it was mere chicken - scratchings (Hobbes» position).

Whitehead asserts that mathematicians seek to extend their systems so that operations and relations are defined most generally, e. g., the natural numbers extended to the integers so that subtraction always has meaning, as well as desiring to show relationships between general systems.

■ Cardinal Nicolas of Cusa (1401 -1464), Bishop of Brixon mathematician as well as astronomer who postulated non-circular planetary orbits, developed a mathematical theory of relative motion, and even used concave lenses to correct near - sightedness.

Good communication skills are important, but «as mathematicians, we will be very cautious not being [impressed] by people who talk very well but the depth is not there,» Bourguignon says.

Newly engaged mathematicians can create a transcendental union by making it official on March 14, 2015, better known as Pi Day.

No more: Bounceur, a 30 - year - old mathematician from Algeria who is also a member of Algeria's Berber cultural minority, renounced such trivial pursuits when he came to France as a master's graduate in operations research — a discipline that blends mathematics and statistics with computer science to pursue optimal solutions to complex problems — seeking better opportunities.

The main adjustment I had to make from school to work was learning to reason deductively, instead of inductively as mathematicians do best.

The NASA probe would also make close flybys of another Jovian moon, Io, while the ESA orbiter, dubbed Laplace (named for the French mathematician and astronomer), would investigate Callisto as well as Ganymede.

As computer capabilities increase, mathematicians can better characterize and manipulate gargantuan figures.

At Philips Research, mathematicians also work on data encryption as well as data compression and signal processing, says Jan ter Maten, a senior scientist at the Philips site in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

To tackle scientific problems that would exceed by far the capabilities of individual public as well as private universities, geoscientists and mathematicians at IUB have recently established an international consortium.

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.

By working with mathematician Alex Townsend at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., the teen found that four - sided shapes — such as rhombuses or trapezoids — worked better than triangles to analyze the problem.

The man who co-founded the online dating site OKCupid and now serves as CEO of Match.com got his start at a high school better known for turning out scientists and mathematicians than experts in finding love connections.

The 46 - year - old actress was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Dorothy Vaughan in the biographical drama which follows the story of African American female mathematicians who worked for NASA during the Space Race.

The film, about the black female mathematicians and engineers who helped put the first Americans in space, has been a hit with critics in Hollywood as well as moviegoers.

Howard's credits also include hits such as «Parenthood,» «Splash,» «Backdraft,» «The Da Vinci Code,» «Apollo 13» and 2001's «A Beautiful Mind,» about the brilliant, anti-social mathematician John Nash, which won four top Academy Awards including best director and best picture.

What better way for students to discover their identities as capable mathematicians than to be in control of monitoring their progress and investigations?

With well - articulated essays in leading media, Cheney took out after the educationists and won the respect of mathematicians and scientists as she helped raise awareness among a wider audience across the United States.

We have the potential, here, to solve two problems at once: the reputation of our subject as elitist and boring (by portraying a wider range of activities in maths) and the shortage of good maths teachers (by encouraging a stronger pipeline of diverse mathematicians at every level from early years to teacher training and beyond).

See how the use of a Mathematician's Notebook can change the way you teach as well as how your students learn.

He is Californias Teacher of the Year for 2009, but he is probably best known as the Rappin Mathematician.

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.

The school also has a mathematician that comes in and teaches the girls, and we've had other scientists as well who've come in.

We believe students can learn how to become the best that they can be when students view themselves as writers, readers, mathematicians, scientists, engineers, artists and so much more.

Mathematicians are correct in asserting the math standards aren't as good as they should be.

Beginning with mathematics in the primary grades, «Math Voices: Educators and Mathematicians Talk About College and Career Ready Standards and Improving Mathematics Teaching and Learning» addresses the importance of building a solid foundation for Algebra that includes numbers and operations, ratios, and proportions as well as preparation for Calculus and other postsecondary mathematics coursework.

This dog is more than a best friend; he is a loyal companion for more than three centuries, remaining by his master's side as he works as a chemyst, mathematician, doctor and metallurgist in European castles, courts and field offices.

The research work in meteorology often involves working closely with chemists, physicists, and mathematicians as well as with oceanographers, hydrologists and researchers in several other branches that are related to the environmental science.

Among Descartes» many contributions (he was a brilliant mathematician and scientist as well), the «cogito» (as philosophers call it) remains his most significant contribution to the history of ideas.

Financiers, as well as the best mathematicians, work with Acorns to diversify each portfolio.

All that we know (traders and mathematicians alike) is that these ratios seem to play an important role in nature as well as the Forex market.

Well, as a mathematician, I would have to disagree.

The hotel and park, as well as numerous other buildings in Philly, were named after David Rittenhouse, an 18th - century astronomer and mathematician, and the first director of the U.S. Mint.

Ada Lovelace, as she would become known — and played by the luminous Swinton — was both a product of her society and a pioneer mathematician and writer, as well as collaborator with Charles Babbage, working with him on his mechanical computing machine.

I would be happy for any real mathematician to solve this complex problem and say exactly, «How much water is needed for a rise of 1 meter and up to the limit of the BS that gets said, and «where all the water is going to come from» all I wanted to do was to point out that all the talk about rises of 20 meters is such BS, as the water does not exist to do that, me I think that if all the ice did melt then you would be lucky to get a 1 meter rise, no one would be more thrilled than me if this math was worked out better than I can do it.

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

Mann et al. have had been exposed as poor mathematicians & the IPCC review process as well as the peer review processes of the journals which published MBH98 & MBH99 have been found wanting.snipThe issue of the IPCC's breach of trust in not picking up the hockey - stick flaws in IPCC 2001 is raised although Wegman's tone is more moderate.

• Posting manuscripts to the free - as - in - freedom arxiv server is acknowledged by the world's most eminent scientists and mathematicians to be good collegial practice!

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.

But why has it attracted scientists and mathematicians as well?

As a system engineer on military avionics, I dealt with many wonderfully dedicated and intelligent and good natured specialty engineers and scientists and mathematicians who were so deep into their area of expertise that they could «not see the forest for the trees».