Sentence examples for mathematize from inspiring English sources

More importantly, this view might overlook one crucial aspect of Peirce's quantification logic, namely his effort to mathematize and/or formalize relations.

When we move to physics, it becomes even more difficult given the highly mathematized nature of the subject to distinguish between the mathematical and the physical components of an explanation.

Second, the subject was easily mathematized, and already in Greek antiquity astronomy was frequently regarded as a branch of mathematics.

By contrast, physics failed to make great gains until the 17th century, when its subject matter finally was successfully mathematized.

This may seem a paradox to a modern reader, since mathematized sciences are regarded as difficult.

Critics alleged that it simply mathematized the obvious and, in searching for universal patterns, ignored important cultural contexts, which thus rendered it unable to predict much of importance; another charge was that the choices the theory sought to explain appeared "rational" only in retrospect.

(Due to loss-aversion, most investors hold too many low-risk bonds, but Markowitz's work helped minimize the effect of the bias by mathematizing the decision).

Over the past few centuries, there have been many efforts to come up with methods to help predict human behavior — what Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic calls mathematizing the subjective.