Sentence examples for mathematical argument from inspiring English sources

The rate of baseball's demise can easily turn into something of a mathematical argument based on presumption and perspective (two things that do not mix well with numbers).

Accordingly we learn quite a lot about the testing of mathematical argument and the difference between always-provisional "proof" of a theory in science and the absolute proof demanded in mathematics.

Firstly, are these computations playing a non-deductive role in some larger mathematical argument?

A key mathematical argument leading to this conclusion can be briefly recited as follows [9,10].

Seymour, for his part, agrees that the authors use a "valid mathematical argument to show that a long neck would have been energetically useful".

Using a loosely mathematical argument, Jenkin argued that the effects of intercrossing would continuously swamp deviations from the mean values of characters and result in a tendency of the variation in a population to return to mean values over time.

Thus set theory has served quite a unique role by systematizing modern mathematics, and approaching in a unified form all basic questions about admissible mathematical arguments — including the thorny question of existence principles.

When we meet in Washington, he fires complicated mathematical arguments at me to show that the attack is wrong and that, actually, he helped Gore.

This shrewd assessment was later borne out by several important formulas advanced by Maxwell that obtained correct results from faulty mathematical arguments.

The numerical cousin of truthiness is proofiness: "the art of using bogus mathematical arguments to prove something that you know in your heart is true — even when it's not".

Haldane, R.A. Fisher, and Sewall Wright, in separate mathematical arguments based on analyses of mutation rates, population size, patterns of reproduction, and other factors, related Darwinian evolutionary theory and Gregor Mendel's concepts of heredity.