Sentence examples for mathematical collection from inspiring English sources

His major work is Synagoge or the Mathematical Collection, which is a compendium of mathematics of which eight volumes have survived.

"A piece of music isn't a pure mathematical collection of formulas," said Donald Martino, a composer and an emeritus professor of composition at Harvard.

Pappus stated this result, along with a similar theorem concerning the area of a surface of revolution, in his Mathematical Collection, which contained many challenging geometric ideas and would be of great interest to mathematicians in later centuries.

The book that is now generally known as the Almagest (from a hybrid of Arabic and Greek, "the greatest") was called by Ptolemy Hē mathēmatikē syntaxis ("The Mathematical Collection") because he believed that its subject, the motions of the heavenly bodies, could be explained in mathematical terms.

If mathematical collections exist independently of the act of defining, then it is not immediately clear why there could not be collections that can only be defined impredicatively (Gödel 1944).

Optimization, also known as mathematical programming, collection of mathematical principles and methods used for solving quantitative problems in many disciplines, including physics, biology, engineering, economics, and business.

Mr. Blackwell described himself as a "dilettante" in a 1983 interview for "Mathematical People," a collection of profiles and interviews.

In its mathematical formulation, the collection of mutation catalogs is the approximate product of the matrix representing the mutation signatures and the matrix representing the contributions of each signature to each tumor.

Extended mathematical programs are collections of functions and variables joined together using specific optimization and complementarity primitives.

Much of the space is occupied by her assistants, who carry out the mathematical and topographical data collection, analysis and computer modeling that are crucial to her work.

The courts regarded software as merely a collection of mathematical algorithms, tiny revelations of nature's secrets -- not as an invention, and thus not patentable.