Sentence examples for mathematical abstraction from inspiring English sources

His drawing, he wrote, "underwent an internal catharsis, striving for mathematical abstraction and purity of line".

Deducing from this that every interval, horizontal or vertical, is exactly one foot, your mind oscillates between mathematical abstraction and the vibrant punch of color and shape.

A nanowire that is 20 atoms across is not quite one-dimensional, but it is close enough to that mathematical abstraction to be a problem.

But this got me thinking of a mathematical abstraction of this problem: Suppose you want to walk from point A to point B, which is one mile away.

Contemplating a series of near-Minimalist red-and-white works with 12-inch dimensions graphically indicated, your mind oscillates between mathematical abstraction and the vibrant punch of color and shape.

The question makes sense only if you believe that any such faith existed in the first place, or that the moviegoing public is something more than a mathematical abstraction.

Why should we rely on mathematical abstractions to understand the world?

Gödel believed that mathematical abstractions were every bit as real as tables and chairs, a view that philosophers had come to regard as laughably naïve.

Theoretical biology often focuses on mathematical abstractions and speculative interpretations of biological systems that may or may not be of practical use in analysis or amenable to computational implementation.

JML also hides mathematical abstractions, such as sets and sequences, within a library of Java classes.

The models that Bresnan and her colleagues develop are sophisticated mathematical abstractions, very far removed from the records of utterance tokens.