The phrase "a fundamental method of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a basic or essential approach to achieving something or understanding a concept.
Example: "In scientific research, a fundamental method of data collection is through controlled experiments."
Alternatives: "a basic approach to" or "an essential technique for".
Underlying almost all modern approaches to biology, Genetics is both a fundamental method of inquiry and a discipline in its own right.
Thermophilic inteins were among the first inteins discovered and played a key role in establishing protein splicing as a fundamental method of protein biosynthesis.
But more importantly, it's a fundamental method of interaction that none of the touchscreen e-readers have implemented, and Puzzazz is in a position to make their solution the official one.
Stochastic models have been extensively used in the industry and continue to be a fundamental method of modelling equity and interest rate derivatives.
Based on the regional differentiation patterns of climate change (Sect. 3), we further propose a fundamental method of climate change regionalization that includes a set of basic principles, an indicator system, and a regionalization method.
New discoveries and innovations come out of trial and error: this is a fundamental method of problem solving.
Therefore, the analysis of microbial community composition based on 16S rRNA genes libraries of relative small size, in spite of representing a fundamental method for a general characterization of microbial communities, seems to be inefficient for a more specific application such as the microbial prospection of oil and gas.
The method of finite elements has become a fundamental method for the model-based development of products.
Three different heat treatment processes have been proposed as a fundamental method to produce three kinds of TRIP-aided steels with polygonal ferritic matrix (F-TRIP), bainitic matrix (B-TRIP) and martensitic matrix (M-TRIP) in a newly designed low alloy carbon steel.
These works comprise an important early example of the fundamental method of geometric topology via reduction to algebraic topology.
"I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform," John Dewey wrote at the turn of the twentieth century.
