Sentence examples for mathematical certainty from inspiring English sources

Another consequence of successful logicist reduction of a given branch of mathematics is that mathematical certainty (within that branch) is of a piece with certainty about logical truth.

This is a mathematical certainty.

It is not a mathematical certainty yet.

That the economy will collapse is a mathematical certainty.

"We're being led to disaster with a mathematical certainty," the businessman said.

After last night's victory, that seems like a mathematical certainty as well.

For sale: mathematical certainties and astonishing harmonic leaps.

We gazed in awe, mesmerised by the waistlines, seduced by the staccato rhythms and mathematical certainties.

Goldberg's vision — with its triumph of mathematical certainties over editorial art — reminded me of the infinite-monkey theorem: if you were to have monkeys randomly strike typewriters for an infinite amount of time, the proposition goes, they would eventually type the complete works of Shakespeare.

BUT even in a potentially meaningless universe where civilizations crumble, institutions collapse and creatures fade into extinction, there are still a few mathematical certainties: things of genuine quality tend to eternally recur, especially if they're made of heavy cotton duck or decent leather.

Such positions belie an almost fanatic idolatry of scientific and mathematical certainties, absolute truths defined by back-office financial algorithms and "professional rigour" over the inevitable invasion of humanity and its propensity for error.