Sentence examples for mathematical interests from inspiring English sources

Hilbert's range of mathematical interests was broad, and included an interest in the foundations of mathematics: his Foundations of Geometry was published in 1899, and of the list of questions posed to the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1900, three addressed distinctly foundational issues.

Yet his mathematical interests soon lay elsewhere.

Nielsen's parents were both accountants, and he acquired mathematical interests at an early age.

And in recent times, Jeannine Mosely, an electrical engineer who designs geometrical modeling software, has applied her mathematical interests to the construction of folded-paper objects.

Simons had a similarly idyllic experience at the Institute for Defense Analyses, where he spent half his time cracking codes and the other half pursuing his own mathematical interests.

"Conway is the rare sort of mathematician whose ability to connect his pet mathematical interests makes one wonder if he isn't, at some level, shaping mathematical reality and not just exploring it," James Propp, a professor of mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, once told me.

Beside its intrinsic mathematical interest, having a constant independent of n in (5.45) would have some interesting applications in probability, as pointed out in [101, Sect. 1.4].

It was devoid of mathematical interest, save for a single concept: the bell curve.

Pentagons remain the area of most mathematical interest when it comes to tilings since it is the only of the '-gons' that is not yet totally understood.

An early mathematical interest in the number 17 seems to have come full circle as Chromosome 17 was among those Dr. Lander's center was assigned.

Those possibilities included observing phenomena of purely mathematical interest in biological systems.