Mathematical
[mæθ(ə)'mætɪk(ə)l] or [,mæθə'mætɪkl]
Definition
(adj.) characterized by the exactness or precision of mathematics; 'mathematical precision' .
(adj.) statistically possible though highly improbable; 'have a mathematical chance of making the playoffs' .
(adj.) beyond question; 'a mathematical certainty' .
(adj.) of or pertaining to or of the nature of mathematics; 'a mathematical textbook'; 'slide rules and other mathematical instruments'; 'a mathematical solution to a problem'; 'mathematical proof' .
Edited by Alexander--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to mathematics; according to mathematics; hence, theoretically precise; accurate; as, mathematical geography; mathematical instruments; mathematical exactness.
Typist: Nora
Examples
- Aveling, the mathematical master, was sure upon the point. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Neither ought a desire, though indivisible, to be considered as a mathematical point. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- We are wont to dispute concerning the nature of mathematical points, but seldom concerning the nature of their ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But penetration is impossible: Mathematical points are of consequence equally impossible. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The statements may help a teacher to a larger vision of the possible results to be effected by instruction in mathematical topics. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Whatever marks the place of its existence either must be extended, or must be a mathematical point, without parts or composition. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The facts and laws of physics, with the assistance of mathematical logic, never fail to furnish precious answers to such questions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He will see the general nature of a result long before it can be reached by mathematical calculation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Their minds construct a utopia--one in which all judgments are based on logical inference from syllogisms built on the law of mathematical probabilities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Sir Isaac Newton had stated, and mathematical computations had proved his words, that a mechanical flying-machine was an impossibility. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They had a considerable mathematical literature. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A country populated by pure logicians and mathematical scientists would, I believe, produce few inventions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The servants cut our bread into cones, cylinders, parallelograms, and several other mathematical figures. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He considered all physical nature, including the human body, as a mechanism, capable of explanation on mathematical principles. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I was at the mathematical school, where the master taught his pupils after a method scarce imaginable to us in Europe. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The way to it was through the mathematical sciences, and these too were dependent on it. Plato. The Republic.
- Losses under this system have grown so small as to be almost incapable of mathematical calculation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The mathematical kn owledge of the Babylonians is related on the one hand to their astronomy and on the other to their commercial pursuits. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- After the enemy had entered the city, says tradition, he stood absorbed in a mathematical problem which he had diagrammed on the sand. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- This explains, if anything could, his view that a distant mathematical result is the subject of ethical rather than of mathematical evidence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Your democracy is an absolute lie--your brotherhood of man is a pure falsity, if you apply it further than the mathematical abstraction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Our most de finite information concerning Egyptian medicine belongs to the same general period as the mathematical document to which we have just referred. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The second objection is derived from the necessity there would be of PENETRATION, if extension consisted of mathematical points. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Speaking of the problem involved, Edison said some years later to Mr. Upton, his mathematical assistant, that he always considered he was only working from one room to another. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- From these _data_ his mathematical head will easily calculate the time and expense necessary to kill us all and conquer our whole territory. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Mathematical or astronomical, physiographic, topographic, political, commercial, geography, all make their claims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He had always, to quote his own rather nebulous statement, considered the correctness of a distant mathematical result to be the subject of mora l rather than of mathematical evidence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I never saw an algebra, or other mathematical work higher than the arithmetic, in Georgetown, until after I was appointed to West Point. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This would be perfectly decisive, were there no medium betwixt the infinite divisibility of matter, and the non-entity of mathematical points. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
Typist: Nora