Sentence examples for a bit of mathematics from inspiring English sources

In part, that's because an innumerate public is easily impressed by a bit of mathematics.

When I saw the problem I was intrigued because it was a new (to me) and natural variation of a bit of mathematics that I'd heard of before but hadn't thought that much about: one can bicolor {1,2,3,…,8} to avoid any monochromatic AP3 (arithmetic progression of length 3), but not {1,2,3,…,9}.

A bit of mathematics showed that the ideal ratio of "off" to "on" cells to take in these contrasts is roughly what's seen in our eyes, the researchers report online today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

That's because as you descend through the tunnel, the amount of mass at an altitude lower than yours decreases, whereas the mass at an altitude higher than yours no longer has any effect on you—as students calculate using a bit of mathematics called the shell theorem.

If you run this movie backwards in time using a bit of mathematics, you find that 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was unimaginably hot and dense.

Both rely on public-key cryptography, which is a bit of applied mathematics that already underpins a lot of the web's security infrastructure.

Formed in 2012, the alliance has been building an impressive roster of members, including hardware-makers such as Lenovo, Samsung and ARM, payments firms PayPal, Visa and MasterCard, and e-commerce giants such as Alibaba.FIDO relies on public-key cryptography, a bit of applied mathematics that already underpins a lot of the web's security infrastructure.

The set of natural numbers cannot be defined in the predicative version of TST, but the set of singletons of natural numbers can be defined and can be used to prove some instances of induction (enough to do quite a bit of elementary mathematics).

But it brings us to a peculiar bit of mathematics: A FreshDirect warehouse worker working full time for a year makes a touch under $20,000.

That is my goal in life … because I have a bit of talent with mathematics.

As a hobby I searched for black holes in outer space, and I dabble in a bit of the old pure mathematics.