(1) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
(2) That will offer insufficient challenge for capable mathematicians and fail to provide an adequate platform for further study.
(3) Cheers Phil Climate Audit is the web site run by Steve McIntyre, a Canadian mathematician peppering Jones with requests for his data.
(4) It began with a frustrated blogpost by a distinguished mathematician.
(5) His parents were mathematicians and worked on Manchester University's Mark I, one of the earliest computers.
(6) Dominic Cummings' high-octane thesis breathlessly takes in Thucydides and Dostoevsky, evolutionary biology and the writings of modern mathematicians, as it argues – almost in passing – that billions of pounds are being wasted in schools and higher education in a world where ministers are barely in control.
(7) With his schoolboyish, ginger hair and glasses, he looks just how you might expect a mathematician to look - in fact, he is a juggler, too.
(8) These data analysts are often physicists or mathematicians, whose skills are not developed for the study of society at all.
(9) Mathematicians are concerned that current A-level questions are overly structured and encourage a formulaic approach, instead of using more open-ended questions that require advanced problem-solving."
(10) Photograph: Science and Society Picture Library The most prolific mathematician of all time, publishing close to 900 books.
(11) "It is unreasonable that mathematicians should be so successful in this," Wright said.
(12) You don't have to be much of a mathematician to see the attraction of those figures: 70% of $2.99 is $2.09; 10% of a paperback priced at $9.99 is 99 cents.
(13) After fighting hard for farmers’ rights in EU negotiations, mathematician and former agriculture minister Laimdota Straujuma became the first female prime minister in January 2014.
(14) It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two.
(15) McIntyre clearly doubted the statistical techniques being employed by the climatologists, and felt that, as a trained mathematician, he could do better despite his ignorance of climate science.
(16) By then, he had been spotted by a college contemporary, Howard Smith , a mathematician with whom Briggs played chess, who was to become head of MI5 in the 1970s.
(17) Staying power 'My job is vital … and I love the mental stimulation I get' David Shrubbs, 71, a teacher at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, said: "I've been teaching maths for 49 years and regard my job as vital for this country, as it's lacking in mathematicians."
(18) This is the nub of what I am going to call, because I've always secretly wanted to be a mathematician, the "Birmingham Liberty Paradox".
(19) The point we should derive from Snowden’s revelations – a point originally expressed in March 2013 by William Binney, a former senior NSA crypto-mathematician – is that the NSA’s Utah Data Center will amount to a “turnkey” system that, in the wrong hands, could transform the country into a totalitarian state virtually overnight.
(20) In this paper we describe a computer model developed jointly by mathematicians and medical consultants.
Mathematics
Definition:
(n.) That science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities or magnitudes, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; the science of spatial and quantitative relations.
Example Sentences:
(1) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(2) On the basis of mathematical models of the obtained dose-time-effect relationship, the risk of cancer occurrence due to small carcinogen doses is predicted.
(3) Unfortunately more than three quantitative data cannot be judged simultaneously without help of mathematical methods.
(4) The kinetic properties of the cell-free extracts fit mathematical models developed for in vitro systems reconstituted from purified enzymes.
(5) All of the multivariate data were treated with mathematic method of cluster analysis.
(6) Problems of calculations and predictions on more than two particles moving are known in mathematics and physics since a long time already.
(7) The normal anatomical position of the point of junction of the superficial cerebral veins with the superior sagittal and transverse sinuses of the rat was studied with an analytical mathematical method.
(8) Such measured courses may be mathematically modelled by the so-called BATEMAN function type, an expression consisting of 2 e-function terms.
(9) This review begins with a mathematical and qualitative description of the inverse problem in terms of epicardial potentials.
(10) For both cases, mathematical expressions as proposed and used by Sager are applied.
(11) Since the four determining coefficients may change over evolutionary time-scales, the mathematical results together with a natural selection argument proves that virulence gamma 2 attenuates.
(12) The selection of optimal parameters, development of valid measurement procedures, and use of mathematical modeling and descriptive statistics are necessary for quantitative studies by ultrasound of fetal organ growth.
(13) The mathematical model clearly predicts this decrease in concentration.
(14) The ability of a mathematical model to evaluate the effects of two different pain modulating procedures (partial nerve block and vibration) on acute experimental pulpal pain was studied.
(15) A mathematical model that abstracts the major features of the vegetative life cycle of Neurosopra crassa has been developed, and the action of selection in this model and various extensions of it is such as to maintain polymorphisms of vegetative incompatibility factors.
(16) Mathematical models describing the process of the patients treatment and permitting to pronosticate the blood and urine sugar level during the treatment were developed.
(17) I used to tease him with the suggestion he had chosen me as walking companion because I had no mathematics at all and so he was safe from prying questions, but in fact now and then he did used to tell me about what he was doing – and how clear it all seemed when he spoke!
(18) A mathematical treatment and an original microcalorimetric method are developed to verify an eventual competitive binding between any two substances for the same macromolecule.
(19) By means of the method of factor-geometric analysis using a computer DVK-3, mathematic calculations of the effectiveness of the operation were made.
(20) A mathematical model of cochlear processing is developed to account for the nonlinear dependence of frequency selectivity on intensity in inner hair cell and auditory nerve fiber responses.