What is mathematical?

  • (adj): Characterized by the exactness or precision of mathematics.
    Example: "Mathematical precision"
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on mathematical:

James Cockle - Mathematical and Scientific Investigations
... Cockle is also remembered for his mathematical and scientific investigations ... Society of Queensland) on his return to England he became associated with the London Mathematical Society, of which he was president from 1886 to 1888, and the Royal ... A volume containing his scientific and mathematical researches made during the years 1864–1877 was presented to the British Museum in 1897 by his widow ...
Anatol Rapoport
... Рапопо́рт May 22, 1911 – January 20, 2007) was a Russian-born American Jewish mathematical psychologist ... He contributed to general systems theory, mathematical biology and to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion ...
Pascual Jordan
1902 – 31 July 1980) was a theoretical and mathematical physicist who made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory ... He contributed much to the mathematical form of matrix mechanics, and developed canonical anticommutation relations for fermions ... employed in quantum mechanics, it has found other mathematical applications ...
Mark B. Wise
... He is best known for his role in the development of heavy quark effective theory (HQET), a mathematical formalism that has allowed physicists to make predictions about otherwise intractable ... He has also published work on mathematical models for finance and risk assessment ... While still a student, he co-authored a book on mathematical methods in physics with Toronto professor Lynn Trainor ...
Hen3ry - Mathematics Career - Mathematical Publications
... The American Mathematical Society database lists Lehrer as co-author of two papers RE Fagen TA Lehrer, "Random walks with restraining barrier as applied to the biased binary counter", Journal of the Society for ... number of locally maximal elements in a random sample", Annals of Mathematical Statistics vol ...

More definitions of "mathematical":

  • (adj): Relating to or having ability to think in or work with numbers.
    Example: "A mathematical whiz"
    Synonyms: numerical
  • (adj): Statistically possible though highly improbable.
    Example: "Have a mathematical chance of making the playoffs"
  • (adj): Beyond question.
    Example: "A mathematical certainty"
  • (adj): Of or pertaining to or of the nature of mathematics.
    Example: "A mathematical textbook"; "slide rules and other mathematical instruments"; "a mathematical solution to a problem"; "mathematical proof"

Famous quotes containing the word mathematical:

    An accurate charting of the American woman’s progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to the line of freedom with the passage of time—but like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal. . . . Each time, the spiral turns her back just short of the finish line.
    Susan Faludi (20th century)

    All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us.... This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one’s brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
    Roger Bacon (c. 1214–c. 1294)

    What he loved so much in the plant morphological structure of the tree was that given a fixed mathematical basis, the final evolution was so incalculable.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)