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mathematical Definition

math·emati·cal (mat̸h′ə mati kəl)

adjective

  1. of, having the nature of, or concerned with mathematics
  2. rigorously exact, precise, accurate, etc.

Etymology: ML mathematicalis < L mathematicus < Gr mathēmatikos, inclined to learn, mathematical < mathēma, what is learned < manthanein, to learn < IE *mendh-, to pay attention to, be alert (> Avestan mazdā, memory, Ger munter, cheerful) < base *men-, to think > mind

mathematical Related Forms
math′·emati·cally adverb
mathematical Synonyms

mathematical

modif.

  1. Concerning mathematics

    arithmetical, numerical, computative, measurable, geometrical, scientific; see also analytical 2.

  2. Exact

    precise, verified, substantiated; see accurate 2.

mathematical Usage Examples

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • inform: Cameras has changed of luminescence fluorescence informed cambridge mathematical.

Modifies a noun

  • formula: The site also provides the mathematical formulae for the units given.
  • physic: Problems in mathematical physics had led Euler to a wide study of differential equations.
  • equation: It seems that he would like to write a mathematical equation of the form: Avg.
  • logic: Contrary to mathematical logic 45 minutes is not half of 90 minutes.
  • notation: The invention of printing also led to the gradual standardization of mathematical notation.
  • model: Book Review: Mathematical Models in the Applied Sciences.

Modifying Another Word

  • purely: And so I think there is a whole range of variation in the numerical field as there is in the purely mathematical relativity area.
  • highly: While the detail is highly mathematical many of its concepts have entered public discourse.
  • too: It is somewhat too mathematical for this course but may be useful for good students who want to know more about some topics.
  • so: With dazzling full-coloured artwork, they make an irresistable set of activity books for the mathematical, or not so mathematical 7-11 year old.
  • quite: The derivation is quite mathematical, so some users may wish to skip this section.
  • much: The American Mathematical Society has much mathematical information and links to many other web pages of interest to mathematicians.

Used with adjective complement

  • develop: In this paper we explore the use of graphic calculators in developing mathematical modeling skills.
  • use: The researchers used mathematical modeling to measure pesticide exposure for children aged between 18 months and four years old.
  • offer: The protests happening at the masters which offers mathematical.
mathematical Quotes

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts† A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity.Lines of light ranged inthenon- space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

—Gibson,William Ford

The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

—Greenspan, Alan

   It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writeswith a misty profundity, heis talking nonsense.

—Whitehead, Alfred North

Ex-Professor Moriartyof mathematical celebrity†isthe Napoleon of crime,Watson.

—Doyle, SirArthur Conan

Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.

—Jevons,William Stanley

   Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge¤  ome¤  trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des vues lentes, dures et inflexibles; mais le dernier a une souplesse de pense¤  e. There are two kinds of mind, one mathematical, the other what one might call the intuitive. The first takes a slow, firm, inflexible view, but the latter has flexibility of thought.

—Pascal, Blaise

The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them as things at all, and as such things. The mathematical is this fundamental position we take toward things by which we take up things as already given to us, and as they must and should be given. Therefore, the mathematical is the fundamental presupposition of the knowledge of things.

—Heidegger, Martin

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