| 单词 | mathematical |
| 例句 | If one accepts the premises and definitions, one must accept what follows from them, but one can frequently reject premises or refine definitions or choose a different mathematical approach. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “A Dodecahedron is a mathematical shape with twelve faces.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z The full mathematization of perspective is combined with a hint of the impossibility of a purely mathematical world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Lots of times, that ability to compute and calculate information rapidly was helpful, like when he was reading about complex mathematical theories. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The second reconciliation—between genetics and evolution—required more than mathematical modeling; it hinged on experimental data. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He wasn’t really interested in the why of a mathematical problem but in the how. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z All graph lines, and swooping curves, and mathematical equations that looked like a language from another planet. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment, which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw this as proof of God’s pleasure in mathematical symmetry showing in his design of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Kepler distinguished between a geometrical hypothesis—the mathematical model used to generate predictions—and an astronomical hypothesis, the actual path of the planet through the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They seem to have no mathematical frame of reference and no basic understandings on which to build. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If you need to review the mathematical concepts, please see Musical Intervals, Frequency, and Ratio9 and Powers, Roots, and Equal Temperament. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The year before the society had backed a costly flop called The History of Fishes, and they now suspected that the market for a book on mathematical principles would be less than clamorous. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z "Matilda, so far as I can gather at this early stage, is also a kind of mathematical genius. She can multiply complicated figures in her head like lightning." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z He also described the flight of birds and the swimming motion of fish in mathematical terms. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z As it is, the basic elements of mathematical culture are in many cases not being communicated to our students. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Regiomontanus spoke in praise of the mathematical sciences, and he praised them by denigrating the Aristotelian philosophy taught in the universities. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Any sighting of a mathematical equation on a blackboard still makes me queasy. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He and his followers believed that numbers were the ruling principle of the universe, and that musical harmonies were a basic expression of the mathematical laws of the universe. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “No, I'm writing a mathematical formula that predicts which of two people will end a romantic relationship and when,” he said. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z That stage of Loomis’s life ended with World War I. At the age of twenty-nine, he enlisted in the officer’s corps, where his mathematical skills, honed at Yale, were promptly put to the test. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Only this morning, each of the boys recited a poem of his own authorship. And Cassiopeia shows signs of mathematical genius.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z One of the first mathematical proofs in history was about the incommensurability/irrationality of the square’s diagonal. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But thanks to the odd mathematical and philosophical properties of zero, it would clash with the fundamental philosophy of the West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Crick told Watson that Pauling’s model was, in fact, the “product of common sense, not the result of complicated mathematical reasoning.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z There were Ponzi schemers and Christian cultists, Tabernacle fanatics and mathematical geniuses. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z During the next few years I developed new mathematical techniques to remove this and other technical conditions from the theorems that proved that singularities must occur. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Kepler was thus conceptually prepared to find a mathematical order in the snowflake. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Even though mathematicians knew that calculus was deeply flawed—thanks to the mathematics of zero and infinity—they quickly embraced the new mathematical tools. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The deep antiquity of the Babylonian tradition is somewhat exaggerated, however: their most impressive work in mathematical astronomy dates after 300, roughly contemporaneous with developments in the Hellenistic world. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I’m a mathematical whiz, and I’m writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I’m gone. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z To Pythagoras, playing music was a mathematical act. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Has Calvin told you about the robot? It’s a mathematical genius. Really remarkable.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Yet we have certainly not reduced these subjects to the status of solved problems: we have, as yet, had little success in predicting human behavior from mathematical equations! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Naturally, as soon as they became familiar with the geometrical techniques of perspective representation, artists became fascinated by mathematical shapes and the difficulties of drawing them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Regiomontanus may have been one of the first, but he was not the last, to see in the mathematical sciences a new type of reliable knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Mathematics is often viewed as a subject for technicians, and mathematical talent is confused with rote skills, elementary programming ability, or speed of calculation. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z George Mason University There is enough mathematical illiteracy in this country, and we don’t need the world’s highest IQ propagating more. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Like the time when she wanted us to act out the mathematical equation for photosynthesis and I rolled my eyes at her when I thought she wasn’t looking. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z But according to the approach I described in Chapter 1, a scientific theory is just a mathematical model we make to describe our observations: it exists only in our minds. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z By studying the mathematical relationships—the ratios—between the various kinds of progeny produced by each cross, Mendel could begin to construct a model to explain the inheritance of traits.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We might have a tendency to dismiss these laws as mere mathematical tinkering, something removed from everyday life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though they knew that the conclusion was wrong, they could never find a mistake in Zeno’s mathematical proof. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z When Desdemona did the laundry, she found scraps of paper in Lefty’s pockets, covered with mathematical figures. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Pythagoras did not simply enumerate examples of this theorem; he developed a method of mathematical deduction to prove the thing generally. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a mathematical theorem that says that any theory that obeys quantum mechanics and relativity must always obey the combined symmetry CPT. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z L’Hôpital was so enthralled by the new mathematics that he persuaded Bernoulli to send him all Bernoulli’s new mathematical discoveries for the marquis to use as he desired, in return for cash. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Fisher realized that the careful mathematical modeling of hereditary traits might resolve this rift. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “I mean, MIT? Engineering? You’re the one with a mathematical brain, not me. I couldn’t even fix the laptop when it broke last year, remember?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z There are many such systems used in tournaments, and they’re as complicated as abstract mathematical theorems. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But de Vries still lacked Mendel’s crucial insight—that bolt of mathematical reasoning that had so clearly illuminated Mendel’s pea-hybrid experiments in 1865. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Others–Baade mostly–were left to do the mathematical sweeping up. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z By chance, at Rudolf’s suggestion, he had just invited Kepler, whose mathematical fame was growing, to join him in Prague. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Within this tradition knowledge is primarily mental, conceptual, theoretical and, in the end, mathematical. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Fancy mathematical terms and reams of statistical correlations and computer printouts do not in themselves produce understanding, social scientists’ claims notwithstanding. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Math majors marveled to hear Dr. Claytor, originally from Norfolk, advancing sophisticated mathematical proofs in his drawling “country” accent. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Unassumingly entitled “Experiments in Plant Hybridization” and published in a scarcely read journal in 1866, the paper was written in dense German and packed with the kind of mathematical tables that Darwin particularly despised. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Newton’s laws were theoretical, rather simple mathematical abstractions from which all of Tycho’s measurements could ultimately be derived. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For years, he’s been trying to compute a mathematical problem in his head that does not compute. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Pi is spelled like the mathematical expression, not the pastry. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He’d explained that Bach’s music has a measured grace, an inherent tranquility and lightness, and that it is precise, almost mathematical. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z He sighed, “A bit behind the times, that’s the trouble with him. He clings to matrix mechanics as the all in all, and this problem calls for more powerful mathematical tools. He’s so stubborn.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Of course, this aspect of mathematics isn’t very well known even to the numerate, since it’s necessary to have some mathematical ideas first before you can play around with them. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z References to the theories of Ptolemy and Copernicus are thus references to their mathematical modelling of the cosmos. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Regiomontanus’s praise of the mathematical sciences did not, however, imply uncritical admiration for contemporary mathematicians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the town someone had stuck up a poster challenging people to solve a mathematical problem. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It sits better with their rational and mathematical methods. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z While the cooking mania lasted she went through Mrs. Cornelius’s Receipt Book as if it were a mathematical exercise, working out the problems with patience and care. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, this mathematical description has no intuitive meaning; it is all but impossible to visualize what these wave functions are. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The goal of previous astronomers had been to construct mathematical models that would successfully predict the location of the planets in the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z To the ancients, zero’s mathematical properties were inexplicable, as shrouded in mystery as the birth of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Claytor’s dissertation topic, regarding point-set topology, delighted the Penn faculty and was acclaimed by the mathematical world as a significant advance in the field. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They liked Copernicanism as a mathematical device; they had no time for it as scientific truth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z To the Pythagoreans, ratios and proportions controlled musical beauty, physical beauty, and mathematical beauty. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Heisenberg opened by explaining the basics of a complex mathematical theory called S-matrix, quickly filling the blackboard with a jumble of symbols and formulas. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Demand for their mathematical abilities had opened Langley’s front door to them, and the quality of their work had kept them at their desks. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In short, there is an obvious connection between innumeracy and the poor mathematical education received by so many people. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah! Susie herself. That robot’s a mathematical wiz. He knows all about everything plus a bit on the side. He does triple integrals in his head and eats up tensor analysis for dessert.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z They dealt only with experimental data and were filled with graphs, charts, tables, photographs of devices for the measuring of auditory, visual, and tactile responses, and with mathematical translations of laboratory findings. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Newton’s style of differentiation was based upon fluxions—the flows—of mathematical expressions that he called fluents. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Galileo’s determination to embody mathematical theory in a corresponding apparatus is fundamental. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The reason is that the more precise divisions of the octave into nineteen steps obeys mathematical ratios that occur in nature. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Trig looms in my life like a mathematical predatory beast. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z My face at the breakfast table was the face of all mathematical girls, counting days, measuring liquids. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z However, one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z All of Dad’s engineering skills and mathematical genius were coming together in one special project: a great big house he was going to build for us in the desert. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It made no sense to learn complicated mathematical methods in order to follow baloney. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I soon was taught that Pauling’s accomplishment was a product of common sense, not the result of complicated mathematical reasoning. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Goldman wasn’t much interested in physics, but it struck him that some of the same mathematical principles the group was using might be helpful in deciding whether someone was suffering a heart attack. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z This idea was hard for the Pythagoreans to believe, but it was incontrovertible—a consequence of the mathematical laws that they held so dear. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Almost never is inductive reasoning taught or are mathematical phenomena studied with an eye toward guessing the relevant properties and rules. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Cicero thought cartography was a branch of geometry, but the Renaissance developed a whole range of new mathematical disciplines and demonstrated their power to make sense of the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But his mathematical works were used as standard texts for more than a hundred years, even after the death of Galileo. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The high point in indigenous Chinese astronomy occurred around 1280, with the work of Kuo Shou-ching, who used an observational baseline of 1,500 years and improved both astronomical instruments and mathematical techniques for computation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Leibniz believed that the reform of mathematical symbols would improve reasoning just as effectively as the telescope had improved sight. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Pascal’s theory was extremely successful, but his mathematical career was not to last. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But to Crick, who knew the mathematical formulas as intimately as anyone, Pauling had hidden his essential method behind the smoke-and-mirrors algebra. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Pacioli is a mathematician; the person who painted him was surely also a mathematician, as demonstrated by his understanding of complex mathematical shapes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In trivial cases as well as in difficult ones, mathematical applications can be a tricky affair, requiring as much human warmth and nuance as any other endeavor. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His frustration over it went up and down like a barometer, the climate being the extent to which he was able to comprehend and resolve whatever mathematical problem preoccupied him at any given moment. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Luckily the physical world made a little more sense than the mathematical one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Proclus credits Pythagoras, for example, with discovering the theorem we now call Pythagoras’s theorem, and Menelaus the theorem that is the mathematical foundation for Ptolemaic astronomy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One aspect of the Scientific Revolution consists in the extension of mathematical theories to include sublunary phenomena. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Here are some of the things that they said I’m very concerned with the general public’s lack of mathematical skills. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was a matter of hours—during which the equivalent of something like seventeen fat volumes of mathematical physics were fed into The Brain. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I love the way that the bells on my ankles and wrists keep time to the mathematical rhythm of the tabla drum. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Newton’s great insights into these mathematical methods, and the beginnings of his investigation of gravity, occurred at a time when the routine of life in Cambridge was interrupted by the threat of plague. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z As it gets darker and darker outside, I ignore the TV and read about bridges, famous builders, and the engineers who imagined the mathematical symbols and signs that people can’t see. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Learning to look like this involved learning to isolate mathematical shapes within more complex objects. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In other words, he is not providing a demonstration in the logical or mathematical sense, but he is making some physical reality apparent. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The inventors of calculus, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, created the most powerful mathematical method ever by dividing by zero and adding an infinite number of zeros together. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I started spouting out all sorts of mathematical equations. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Because of his mathematical and technical ability, Manfred was assigned to read radar. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Addresses multiple intelligences—Musical, logical/mathematical, linguistic, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z In that moment, the future—uncontainable by any Theorem mathematical or otherwise—stretched out before Colin: infinite and unknowable and beautiful. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Claytor’s brusque manner intimidated most of his students, who couldn’t keep up as the professor furiously scribbled mathematical formulas on the chalkboard with one hand and just as quickly erased them with the other. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Einstein’s arguments were closer to physics than those of Poincare, who regarded this problem as mathematical. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, the Pythagoreans had tried to squelch another troublesome mathematical concept—the irrational. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In the recognition by Pythagoras and Plato that the Cosmos is knowable, that there is a mathematical underpinning to nature, they greatly advanced the cause of science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I have included in my report all of my formulas, as well as mathematical analyses of the data in the appendix. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The whole thing changed from a little walking and stretching to a mathematical dilemma. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z A conservative minority saw the mathematical race mixing as the twilight of their civilization. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The different mathematical sciences were interlocked: anyone with the skills to excel in one had the skills to excel in others. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But he had no interest in measurement or experiment; he thought Copernicus was excessively preoccupied with mathematical problems. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Dad had worked out the architecture and the floor plans and most of the mathematical calculations. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z For an ambitious young mathematical mind—or even one not so young—there wasn’t a better seat in the world. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But the comfort-loving Descartes wasn’t a fighting soldier; he found his military niche as an engineer, using his mathematical skills rather than his less-developed physical abilities. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I showed him how to set up his graphs, how to utilize the tables in his textbook, and how to reduce experimental findings to mathematical formulas. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z In those days, proving a mathematical theorem was often as simple as drawing an elegant picture; the tools of ancient Greek mathematics weren’t pencil and paper—they were a straightedge and compasses. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Once numbers shed their geometric significance, mathematicians no longer had to worry about mathematical operations making geometric sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “This was in a very small but distinct writing,” he said, “it was in ink, and consisted mainly of mathematical derivations.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The only stipulation was that he had to describe the two models impartially, without arguing in favour of the Copernican system, and restricting himself to the astronomical and mathematical arguments on both sides. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z "I've been thinking," he said, "about a clock. We could make a sundial We could put a stick in the sand, and then-" The effort to express the mathematical processes involved was too great. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Double entry, like any mathematical technique, depends on abstraction. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “There is one, isn’t there? Some mathematical formula which tells the proper dose to administer according to height and weight, that sort of thing?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The remainder of the morning Francis was silent and absorbed in mathematical equations. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z More or less reflexively, he dropped into his equations something called the cosmological constant, which arbitrarily counterbalanced the effects of gravity, serving as a kind of mathematical pause button. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Ordinarily, the mathematical interpretation of verbal reactions of robots is one of the more intricate branches of robotic analysis. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The Greeks couldn’t do this neat little mathematical trick. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Entry to the inner redoubt requires one to pass through the mathematical sciences, with Tartaglia himself standing among them; within is Philosophy, accompanied by Aristotle and Plato. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He used it to turn figures and shapes into equations and. numbers; with Cartesian coordinates every geometric object—squares, triangles, wavy lines—could be represented by an equation, a mathematical relationship. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Taken all together, the moving planets made a “harmony of the spheres,” and the heavens are a beautiful mathematical orchestra. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Though educated only through the sixth grade, Katherines father was a mathematical whiz who could tell how many board feet a tree would yield just by looking at it. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As the computers’ work grew in scope and importance, however, a girl who impressed engineers with her mathematical prowess might be invited to join them working full-time for their tunnel or group. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In the midst of Kepler’s mathematical raptures, and despite his sequestered life, the imperfections of the outside world must also have molded his character. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Part of his purpose was to prove that the Ptolemaic system was an accurate representation of how the heavens really work and not just a mathematical model. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There was no doubt in her mind that she had met a truly extraordinary mathematical brain, and words like child-genius and prodigy went flitting through her head. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Throughout the early weeks of February, Danny and I met in the lunchroom, sat at a table by ourselves, and discussed the difficulties he was having with his mathematical translations of psychological experiments. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z It would be many years before mathematicians began to free calculus from its mystical underpinnings, for the mathematical world was busy fighting over who invented calculus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Imaginary time may sound like science fiction but it is in fact a well-defined mathematical concept. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z —William Cowper Innumeracy, Freud, and Pseudoscience Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And of course, the mathematical statistics that Scythe Faraday relied upon so heavily. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Interestingly, there is often an affective connection between music and the emotions, and musical intelligence may share common thinking processes with mathematical intelligence. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Norwood, whose first love was trigonometry and thus angles, decided to bring a little mathematical rigor to navigation and to that end he determined to calculate the length of a degree. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When you have an infinity in an expression, or when you divide by zero, all the mathematical operations—even those as simple as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division—go out the window. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was a combination of his relentless stamina, survival skills, and mathematical mind that made him the perfect candidate to join one of Brazil’s boldest and most brutal projects—building the telegraph network. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Equal temperament has a clear scientific/mathematical basis, is very straightforward, does not require retuning for key changes, and is unquestioningly accepted by most people. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Fortunately, Katherine Goble’s confidence in her own mathematical abilities, and her innate curiosity, pushed her to pepper the engineers with questions, just as she had as a child with her parents and teachers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They are simply mathematical constructs that make the mathematical operations in string theory work in the manner that they have to. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If they had lived in another kind of society, their exceptional mathematical talents might have been better used. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps nostalgic for the agency that had boosted her mathematical career, she transferred to Goddard in 1959, the only one of the centers that had been created organically out of NASA. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Such problems turn real objects—heaps of grain, barrels of wine—into abstract shapes so that mathematical principles can be applied to them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The two promptly accused each other of plagiarism, and the English mathematical community, which backed Newton, pulled away from the Continental mathematicians, who supported Leibniz. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was a sort of mathematical homunculus—an idea borrowed from Pythagoras and Plato—but dressed up with fractions and denominators into a modern-sounding law. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He was dressed in a long flowing robe covered entirely with complex mathematical equations and a tall pointed cap that made him look very wise. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z And no, I didn’t say a thing about my surprise at him being able to understand the mathematical concept of zero. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “We are interested in heredity not primarily as a mathematical formulation,” he wrote, “but rather as a problem concerning the cell, the egg and the sperm.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Genuine science and mathematical precision are more intriguing than are the “facts” published in supermarket tabloids or a romantic innumeracy which fosters credulity, stunts skepticism, and dulls one to real imponderables. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Galileo’s law of fall describes in mathematical terms what happens when bodies fall under ideal conditions; but it does not explain anything. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He believed what he was doing was the musical embodiment of God's master plan for humankind, a recognition of the intricate mathematical beauty of the natural order as ordained by the Almighty. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z "A mathematical Mind, the greatest Mind of all, a Mind full of perfection and love—this type of Mind is behind all of creation." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There’s an old joke, told in Simon Singh’s excellent book Fermat’s Last Theorem, that gives a sense of the different degree of rigor of mathematical proof. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Like Pythagoras, Descartes was a mathematician-philosopher; perhaps his most lasting legacy was a mathematical invention—what we now call Cartesian coordinates. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In all that time there were no significant mathematical developments. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Quite the contrary: some of his most famous papers are marred by rudimentary mathematical errors, occasionally leading to erroneous conclusions. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It relied upon an illegal mathematical operation, but it had one huge advantage. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She said this with no love in her eye, coldly, as though she were explaining a mathematical function. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The correlation between expectation and delivery of desire could no doubt be quantified into some kind of mathematical formula. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Both are theories of the universe, though the latter is much more mathematical and precise than the former. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A mathematical proposition is either demonstrably true, or it is not. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z From perspective painting, the new mathematical learning spread to cartography. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Kepler had nothing but his mathematical ability and a burning zeal to unlock the mysteries of the Universe. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Neither the nominalist nor the mathematical usages are particularly common, and we cannot show any direct influence from either of them on seventeenth-century usages. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At the time the mathematical community rejected Bernoulli’s claims; not only had l’Hôpital proved himself an able mathematician, but Johann Bernoulli had a tarnished reputation. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Their mathematical theories might be beautiful and consistent and might seem to explain the nature of the universe—and be utterly wrong. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The rule provided a way to figure out the true value of a mathematical function that goes to 0/0 at a point. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z So many of the engineers were Northerners, relatively agnostic on the racial issue but devout when it came to mathematical talent. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I wish his telescopes and mathematical instruments, however, may secure his felicity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The figures on the cornice symbolize the mathematical sciences, with Urania, the muse of astronomy, in the centre. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They feel that there are mathematical minds and nonmathematical minds, and that the former always come up with answers instantaneously whereas the latter are helpless and hopeless. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Oberth figured out the mathematical equations which proved that space flight was practical. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z De Maricourt was a mathematical scholar and, it would seem, a soldier. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he’d just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z An Eastern concept, born in the Fertile Crescent a few centuries before the birth of Christ, zero not only evoked images of a primal void, it also had dangerous mathematical properties. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In mathematical terms, we are barely scratching the surface of our lives at this point. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Many mathematical problems are so intractable, and experiments involving them so expensive, that this kind of probabilistic simulation is the only alternative to giving up on them. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, some of the ideas discussed in this book are quite sophisticated, yet the mathematical prerequisites for understanding them are truly minimal: some facility with arithmetic and an understanding of fractions, decimals, and percentages. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I believed their arguments on physical grounds, but I did not like the mathematical way in which they calculated the emission. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A federal agency in Hampton sought women to fill a number of mathematical jobs having to do with airplanes. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z While his buddies were baking out there, Milton was sitting under a ceiling fan, working out a mathematical proof. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Now it is eighty thousand and leaping pell mell on in a mathematical progression—a hundred thousand in three years and perhaps two hundred thousand in ten, with no end in sight. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It is at the zero hour of the big bang and the ground zero of the black hole that the mathematical equations that describe our world stop making sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Mathematics can help determine the consequences of our assumptions and values, but we, not some mathematical divinity, are the origin of these assumptions and values. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This strange force is woven into the mathematical equations of the quantum universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He mostly just stares off with a faraway perplexed look on his face, like he’s trying to work through an impenetrable mathematical equation. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Archimedes refused, since his mathematical proof was not yet finished. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Just as it’s hard to describe what makes a piece of music or a painting aesthetically pleasing, it's equally difficult to describe what makes a mathematical theorem or a physical theory beautiful. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If laws of nature are something less than mathematical truths and something more than perceived regularities, then it would seem clear that they exist only because God has chosen to make them apply. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Consequently, we frequently find senior mathematical, engineering, and scientific people ardently wooed by industry and then subordinated to newly minted M.B.A.s and accountants. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Gilbert, the physician and experimental scientist, had been a mathematical examiner when a fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and his fundamental goal was to prove the truth of Copernicanism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Because we will share scientific and mathematical insights with any other civilization, I believe that understanding the interstellar message will be the easiest part of the problem. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What makes it science is not that it provides an explanation but that it provides reliable predictions in the form of a mathematical model. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z However, any mathematician of the day would have scoffed at this line of reasoning; Archimedes used the tools of the infinite, which were so expressly disallowed by his mathematical colleagues. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Consequently, he insisted on using one single mathematical model to account for a planet’s movement across the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The beginnings of mathematical thought were found in the desire to count sheep and in the need to keep track of property and of the passage of time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The modern tradition of mathematical argument, essential to all of science, owes much to Pythagoras. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Right now I still imagined a giant mathematical variable in my pelvis, offering a host of faceless unknowns. Waiting to love my child 2013-05-07T23:45:00Z The score, instead, is a curious image that looks like mathematical code. Helen Pridmore and friends to perform the experimental music of John Cage and Earle Brown 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z There was mathematical complexity in some of the tunes, like “Rescue Spreaders,” which involved a whorl of superimposed meters, in groupings of four and five. Music Review: Garage a Trois, a Jazzy Jam Band, at Maxwell?s 2010-07-11T21:52:00Z He gave Harvard University $6.5 million to found a mathematical biology and evolutionary dynamics program. Perspective | Jeffrey Epstein had many enablers. The most egregious was his wealth. 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Hailing from Oxford, England, Foals is a five-member, indie-rock band with a dissonant but danceable sound, chiming guitars and a minimalist, mathematical approach to music. Foals to play Neptune Theatre 2013-05-30T19:49:09Z The titles, designed by Momoco in London, echo the plot with illustrated symbols of her different types of education: books, mathematical equations, scientific formulas, dance steps and love hearts. Design: Making an Art Out of Credit Rolls 2010-03-01T11:10:00Z “It’s a mathematical equation based on how your mother interviews visa applicants,” he said. Modern Love: When a Mother Is a Professional Profiler - Modern Love 2012-07-20T16:05:20Z “I see Ariel’s gifts – his elegance, his shots and structure. He’s got this mathematical brain.” Jane Campion: ‘The clever people used to do film. Now they do TV’ 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Nørgård started to use a so-called "infinity series", a mathematical principle that does what it says on the tin, and leads to the generation of an always-changing sequence of notes. A guide to Per Nørgård's music 2012-07-30T15:58:34Z They are banking on Pitt, 47, to transform Beane's use of bland statistics and mathematical tables into entertaining movie fare. Brad Pitt aims for home run with "Moneyball" 2011-09-10T15:32:44Z He says that in his recent score for The Imitation Game, the main ambition was to reflect the incessant activity in the brain of mathematical genius Alan Turing. Alexandre Desplat: A film score in three weeks 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z I was hoping he would be sketching, but instead there were mathematical formulas across the pages. Following the Hudson River School Art Trails in 3 States 2012-08-30T21:34:56Z Here’s a smaller one: Where do mathematical ideas come from? The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Paul, who has been the department’s resident genius, and to whom she reports, is resentful of his subordinate—a black woman, for good measure—outshining him in mathematical talent and analytical insight. “Hidden Figures” Is a Subtle and Powerful Work of Counter-History 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z As straightforward and mathematical as piano is, I knew it wasn't the instrument for me. Guitar Zero: psychologist Gary Marcus says science proves it's never to late to learn music 2012-06-05T15:11:01Z He drew optimistic inferences instead, choosing to emphasize that there would always be new mathematical truths to discover. A New Biography of Kurt Gödel, Whose Brilliant Life Intersected With the Upheavals of the 20th Century 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Fish follow ultra-simple mathematical rules, he explains, to ensure that they never collide with each other when swimming in groups. SXSW 2011: The internet is over 2011-03-15T08:00:03Z They are all challenging, densely packed scores, their tangled surfaces underpinned by elaborate mathematical models often derived from processes in the natural world. Posadas: Oscuro Abismo de Llanto y de Ternura; Glossopoeia; Nebmaat; Cripsis ? review 2011-01-20T22:40:01Z He holds three undergraduate degrees from the University of Michigan, a bachelor of arts in philosophy, and two bachelor of science degrees, one in biopsychology and cognitive science and the other in mathematical physics. Eventually They Fell in Love (Their Cats, Not So Much) 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z I started to speak to classes fairly often, and after a reporter saw my mathematical skills firsthand and filed a story, I was invited on to television – I did the rounds. Meet the super humans 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z It is a half-hour mystical work with a mathematical title that has something to do with complex numbers and four-dimensional space. Music ensembles Hocket and Sakura bathe Monk Space in an acoustical glow 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z A. This was the one opportunity to journey to the center of Chris’s mind, to represent his brilliant mathematical mind and visualize that journey into it. Gavin O’Connor Narrates a Scene From ‘The Accountant’ 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Before he had his own troupe, Mr. Tynek danced in Ms. Childs’s, and her mathematical structuring is a heavy influence on all three of this program’s works. Dance Review: Dusan Tynek Dance Theater Plays BAM Fisher 2013-09-05T20:20:56Z SUN Inspiring mathematical activities for fourth- to 12th-grade students, led by mathematicians, teachers, and volunteers, 1 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-04-24T23:00:53Z No matter; back behind his electronics, he was mathematical and mercurial. Review: PC Music and Sophie in a High-Concept Extravaganza at BRIC House 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z It was the kind of question — concise, mathematical, a little nerdy, a little tense — that might be expected from the keyboardist of Vampire Weekend, a band that packs complex ideas into twisted pop songs. Vampire Weekend’s Evolution in ‘Modern Vampires of the City’ 2013-05-08T12:00:18Z It was practical and mathematical at its core and based in a community that transcended nation, confession and language. Understanding the universe 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z In Guantánamo, in Kingston, in Caracas, in Santo Domingo, seismographs registered the quake in mathematical figures while residents of each city felt the ground convulsing for themselves. How did the zombie become so white? 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z As he was getting older, he wanted to see if his teenage confusion reflected a lack of mathematical skill or a dearth of discipline. Math Defeated Him in School. In His 60s, He Went Back for More. 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Her elegant dances, with their sleekly patterned steps — repeated and resequenced like mathematical equations — focus on structure and form to create sophisticated mosaics of movement. Lucinda Childs Gets Off the Floor in New Work for the Graham Company 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z If this twentysomething is not happy, then that’s what you address with her, without using dubious mathematical formulas and without even pinning your concern to the guy. Carolyn Hax: A friend in an abusive relationship needs nonjudgmental support The mathematical absurdity still makes my mouth water. Perspective | A dozen albums for a penny? I’ve still got mine, and plenty of time to listen. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z You don't sleep without dreaming and you don't dream in mathematical equations. "As a Woman" author Paula Stone Williams: I was "unaware of my male privilege" until transition 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z To illustrate the point, Paskhover and colleagues combined a simple mathematical model with average values for several facial measurements previously gathered for a large number of men and women in the US. Does my nose look big in this? Plastic surgeons reassure those worried by selfies 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z If mathematical equations produced a definite shape in three-dimensional space, human equations were more about bringing variables and unknowns into volatile proximity. Man Ray inserts the human factor into the equation 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z That’s great, but perhaps you really excel at public speaking, mentoring colleagues, or performing mathematical equations. What to Do When Your Partner Is More Successful 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z It’s reassuring to remember that all sorts of intellectual—and hallucinatory—predilections can find a way into mathematical work. The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z In high school, he won the grand prize in the Houston Science Fair for a project involving mathematical applications for solving the Pharaoh’s Dilemma, an ancient puzzle. Meet the management guru who is trying to fix the D.C. arts commission 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Clay Shirky wrote: “Her knowledge of the power and risks of mathematical models, coupled with a gift for analogy, makes her one of the most valuable observers of the continuing weaponization of big data.” Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z James Newman, the son of Jewish immigrants, had an I.Q. of 175 and at 7 would stand on a soapbox in Times Square and perform mathematical tricks. Books of The Times: Brooke Newman?s ?Jenniemae & James?: Dad and the Maid 2010-04-01T21:47:00Z "There can be no mathematical certainty but I feel that it cannot be ascribed to Caravaggio but only to the the circle associated with his name." From the archive, 15 October 1974: Salome in a veil of doubt 2012-10-15T06:30:00Z It recycles from his earlier film Good Will Hunting the story of a wayward teenage genius nurtured by an older mentor, only this time the boy’s talents are literary, not mathematical. From Sean Connery to Harrison Ford: actors who secretly played roles gay 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z This is the case even for scientific theories and mathematical axioms, since our conviction that they are true because they are seen to work is also personally apprehended. Richard Dawkins’ moralizing atheism: Science, self-righteousness and militant belief — and disbelief 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z Sorting through my father’s belongings in his office, finding poems he’d written, letters, notebooks filled with mathematical formulas. Long aftermath of a mass shooting: Remembering my father, killed in 1991 at the University of Iowa 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z This may be because the structures of his plays are as precise as a mathematical proof. | 'Benefactors': Discord Among the Best of Married Friends 2011-04-13T22:25:29Z Combined with new mathematical techniques, this technology is giving scientists new precision in pinpointing ages of bones and skulls. Bones from a Cheddar Gorge cave show that cannibalism helped Britain's earliest settlers survive the ice age 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z He invented machines for generating mathematical music, did research on a universal language and collaborated with Bernini on the spectacular Fountain of the Four Rivers in Rome, where Kircher spent much of his adult life. Books of The Times: ‘A Man of Misconceptions’ by John Glassie 2012-12-30T21:22:10Z But it is the unpredictability of these numbers as one climbs through the universe of numbers which represents one of the biggest mathematical mysteries. Liked the book? Try the app 2010-07-02T23:05:00Z A handful of the precious Library Cave manuscripts still at Dunhuang are on view, including two Buddhist sutras written sometime between the third and sixth centuries, and a fragment of a mathematical treatise in Tibetan. Art in Review: ‘Dunhuang’: ‘Buddhist Art at the Gateway of the Silk Road’ 2013-08-15T21:25:27Z Skinner’s “proof” that Shakespeare was not particularly inclined toward poetic alliteration was incorrect, and he is as likely to refer to Robert Frost and Thomas Pynchon as to such mathematical titans as R.A. “How Not to Be Wrong”: What the literary world can learn from math 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z It was a result of the mathematical and engineering talent of Malcolm Sayer and became the first large-scale production car based on aircraft principles. Jaguar E-Type turns 50 2011-02-08T17:48:20Z Moviegoers may be experiencing a moment of mathematical confusion. Critic’s Notebook: Film Comment Selects Festival Offers 22 Intriguing Picks 2014-02-13T22:30:25Z But it was Euler whose work really established calculus as the basic tool of the mathematical sciences. The master of them all 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Chwe is an expert on game theory, a means of analysing human decision making that is popular in departments of economics and business studies, and that has generated elaborate mathematical models. Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Youg Chwe – review 2013-06-12T09:01:01Z He considered mathematical takes on beauty, the golden ratio of pleasing proportions first theorised in ancient Greece. 'I just want to see the person I always saw in my head': the story of a face 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z In the run-up to this notion, he first mentions those rationalists who thought that humanity could be run on almost mathematical principles. The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas, by Isaiah Berlin – review 2013-07-23T11:27:37Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton The line between madness and genius; the degree to which we resemble our parents; the difficulty of ever really proving the relationships that exist between two objects, mathematical or otherwise. Proof – review 2013-03-24T00:05:43Z The story of a mathematical partnership is told in the film “The Man Who Knew Infinity,” written and directed by Matthew Brown. Matthew Brown Narrates a Scene From ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Later, Einstein conjectured, with a highly mathematical theory called general relativity, that gravity also affects the rate of ticking of clocks: A clock in strong gravity ticks more slowly than one in weak gravity. Benedict Cumberbatch Meets Albert Einstein in Carlo Rovelli’s New Audiobook 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z “The school prepared me for higher education,” says Leonora Gross, a mathematical statistician who became the first high-ranking black woman administrator at the Census Bureau. The enlightening legacy of the Rosenwald schools 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z There is no one in the mathematical world who will work with him. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z Initially, Ms. Rockburne was inspired by set theory, a branch of mathematical logic. Dorothea Rockburne’s Ephemeral Art and Enduring Legacy 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Vedic astrology puts forward a mathematical explanation for human personality that has logical and weighted underpinnings, even if it is fabricated. You are more than a sexual fetish — but online dating sites might not think so 2014-03-15T20:30:00Z As with his earlier geometrical paintings, the “Homages” were rigorously structured on “actual, mathematical relationships,” the choice of their particular form being chosen, according to Albers, because “squares do not normally appear in nature.” Art Review: Making of a Bauhaus Master 2011-10-21T12:30:12Z Moreover, the waves are actually mathematical wave functions of the probability of where a particle is located. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z We’re told that Lord Byron’s daughter, the Countess of Lovelace, “used her mathematical abilities to devise a system for betting horseraces and ended up penniless.” The civilized crime fiction of Charles Finch 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z This book, published in 1917, analysed the mathematical and physical aspects of biological processes to reveal, with the aid of indispensable drawings, how the forms of living things develop. Patrick Keiller's 10 favourite books with pictures 2012-08-29T14:29:00Z In Ruhl's world, art doesn't merely mirror life — it reconstructs it with a kind of mathematical mockery. 'Stage Kiss' elicits lots of giggles but not much emotion at Geffen Playhouse 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Rhythms help us understand time, the repetition of melodies and harmonic patterns provide a mathematical satisfaction. Readers recommend: songs about repetition ? the results 2011-03-17T16:30:02Z We discussed a book Bill wrote, called The Final Addendum, described, in part, as: “The approach to the creation event with mathematical correlations in Bible observations, based on its accurate connection with real historical events.” Open adoption reunion: My first time with our daughter's birth parents since the hospital 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Some dog breeds are objectively more adorable than others—at least according to a mathematical ratio that appears frequently in art and nature. The 20 cutest dog breeds, according to science 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Barrow’s fascinations generally run toward mathematical, geometric and psychological models that shape modern life. Mark Barrow and Sarah Parke’s Homespun Abstractions 2012-11-11T22:48:11Z Jason Head, a professor from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, developed a mathematical model to calculate the massive size. Smithsonian showcases replica of monster snake 2012-03-29T17:27:10Z But even as the city developed its reputation for cutting-edge nightlife, Shpudeiko started looking back: to medieval and early Renaissance music, whose strict, almost mathematical cadences reverberated with his own modular synthesizers. Reconstructing Kyiv, One Synth Wave at a Time 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z On “Mirrored” Battles fused minimalism, funk, progressive rock, African and Caribbean rhythms and a goofy streak that made all the mathematical calculations of their rhythms sound manic. New Music 2011-06-13T22:00:32Z A late-20th-century diagrammatic composition densely drawn in colored pencil and ink on paper and sealed with transparent tape, by Melvin Way, includes alphabetical and mathematical formulas that he said would be dangerous to experiment with. Inspiration Made Concrete in ‘Self-Taught Genius’ Exhibition 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z It is less apparent, however, when you smother it in cliches so richly strewn that even a mathematical genius would lose count of them. Old Earth – review 2012-06-17T15:46:45Z Wilkinson notes how the harmonic structure in music is connected to mathematical forms. Math Defeated Him in School. In His 60s, He Went Back for More. 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Radiohead was in unimpeachable form — ominous, frenetic, mathematical, enraged, edgy, meticulous, desolate, funky — on Bonnaroo’s giant main stage, through a sound system with the clarity and punch of good headphones. The Best Concerts of 2012, as Seen by Times Critics 2012-12-26T23:38:02Z Windows, placed with mathematical precision, were large and often shuttered — Georgian builders seemed to understand that in the late afternoon, taking tea, one might want to ease gently into the dusk. The 25 Rooms That Influence the Way We Design 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z My dad, a mathematical physicist, a man with an active mind, but one of few words, was a gentle guide, letting me think through things on my own. The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z String Theory is one of several mathematical approaches to resolving the conflicts. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z The golden ratio is a mathematical formula of pleasing harmony. The Semiotics of “Rose Gold” 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Trembling but unswerving, emotionally inflexible and intellectually agile, he is completely concentrated yet always fidgeting – tugging away at the string of his hoodie, focused on his mathematical proofs. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Untold Stories – review 2013-03-17T00:05:53Z The novel's mathematical explanations are easier to read than to grasp. Ethan Canin's 'A Doubters Almanac' is a blazingly intelligent novel 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z When Mr. Canin talks about Milo’s study of topology, a mathematical field that studies geometric properties and spatial relations between flexible objects, he could easily be describing his own work. ‘A Doubter’s Almanac,’ Ethan Canin’s Latest Novel, Has Real-Life Parallels 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Among self-proclaimed geeks, pi is a bit of a pride point, one of the few mathematical symbols widely recognized in popular culture. Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds! Why it’s a big year for the ‘celebrity of numbers.’ 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z The creators say that the complex mathematical formulas used to create the three-dimensional effect will obviate the need for glasses. 3-D Comes to Met Opera, but Without Those Undignified Glasses 2011-02-16T00:00:12Z Gaines would take images -- a tree, a moving dancer -- and render them on specially created grids, capturing layers of shadow or movement in densely abstracted, coolly mathematical pieces. Datebook: Conceptual grids, earthy caves and lots of Italian masters 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z For example, lacking a reliable, affordable method of diagnosing current and past infections, researchers must use sophisticated guesswork in the form of mathematical models to reckon the scale and trends of national outbreaks. Review: ‘Zika’ Tracks the Trajectory of an Epidemic 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z “Arcadia” is set in both the early 19th and the late 20th centuries, and the topics covered include thermodynamics, pastoral landscaping, Latin translation and mathematical theorems. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Speaking the Speech, Trippingly 2011-03-24T17:53:23Z She showed slide after slide of snaky patterns — the dimensional fruit of some deep mathematical prowess. A Knitting Weekend Escape at Mohonk Mountain House 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Through extensive interviews with my brother, who had a small grow in Oregon, I learned the mathematical side of plant cultivation. The complexities of cannabis: How I learned growing pot isn't for slackers 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Designed by OpenAI, one of the world’s most ambitious artificial intelligence labs, GPT-3 is a neural network, a mathematical system that can learn skills by analyzing enormous amounts of data. Can A.I. Write Recipes Better Than Humans? We Put It to the Ultimate Test. 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z After spending time with both artists, however, it is the mathematical formulas that begin to seem thin, intangible and lacking in reality. Man Ray inserts the human factor into the equation 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Therefore, the program is sound by the principle of mathematical induction. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Perhaps because I’m a word nerd, my favorite exhibit was Nick Kim’s drawing of alienlike beings, their bodies inscribed with mathematical formulas, bowing before one another and uttering polite phrases like “After you.” 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z To Mr. Canin, the pile of fruit perfectly illustrated the Kepler conjecture, a 17th-century mathematical premise about the most efficient way to stack spherical objects. ‘A Doubter’s Almanac,’ Ethan Canin’s Latest Novel, Has Real-Life Parallels 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z “We think of flavor as an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space,” he says, referring to the mathematical concept of a complex algebraic system with an infinite number of variables. Food for thought: will an era of hyper-personalized meals leave a sour taste? 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z The necklace, made in a design inspired by mathematical fractal theory, sold within weeks despite a price tag of over $1 million. Special Report: Jewelry: Luxury Jewelry Defies the Recession 2009-12-10T05:54:50Z Bach, Handel and Scarlatti were all born in 1685 and all became famous writing complex, almost mathematical, music with lots of ostentatious ornamentation. From Wonder Boys to Irrational Man: why Hollywood loves a hot professor 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The Mőbius strip is a mathematical figure in which one side infinitely blends into another. Britney Spears is a cautionary tale of pornification 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The structures are crisp and mathematical; the results are manic. Music Review: Scrambling and Personalizing the Rock Timeline 2011-07-17T22:10:21Z Her solution, artistic rather than mathematical, is to divide a square into four quadrants with curving figures within. Review | In the galleries: ‘Taking Territory’ exhibition finds the creative common ground 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z This rigid, almost mathematical haircut gives the impression that the guy is ordered but also insane. Javier Bardem: is he the best ever Bond baddie? 2012-10-27T23:21:00Z Her mathematical background still finds expression in the precision of her work, despite its variousness. As the News Cycle Lurches, Jill Lepore Offers a Long, Steady View of American History 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The film is a treatise on the unexpected creativity within the field, the satisfaction of understanding and learning, and the way all humans inherently yet unwittingly absorb mathematical thinking in their everyday lives. In Transit Blog: Creativity Meets Math at Fondation Cartier in Paris 2012-01-02T11:00:26Z Your math skill matters but it’s not the only thing: According to a newly released University of Pittsburgh study, mathematical skill does indeed seem to be genetic, even above just general cognitive intelligence. How to Help Your Kid With Math Even if You Suck at it 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z He was a mathematical genius, the man who popularized the terms “googol” and “googolplex” in a 1940 book, written with Edward Kasner, called “Mathematics and the Imagination.” Books of The Times: Brooke Newman?s ?Jenniemae & James?: Dad and the Maid 2010-04-01T21:47:00Z A quick scan of the room finds my classmates busily scribbling in their notebooks, unlocking mathematical mysteries. Love is the mother of all addictions: Compelling as nicotine and heroin — and just as hard to kick 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Later, he said, chaos scientists realized what this was: “a mathematical object that exhibits both order and chaos.” Possessed: There?s No Quiet Without Noise 2011-07-08T19:39:07Z Some critics have hailed Cumberbatch’s portrayal as the performance of a lifetime in a career that already features an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the mathematical genius Alan Turing in “The Imitation Game.” Benedict Cumberbatch Has Heard Your Confusion About ‘The Power of the Dog’ 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z However, if people would like to add some mathematical logic to the mix, the folks at MSN commissioned a “formula to help you predict how long your current relationship will last.” True love calculus: It’s more complex than you plus me equals us 2014-03-13T19:53:00Z Instead, the bluefin's more hopeful future appears to be the product of many separate lines of evidence — revised catch estimates, satellite tracking data, new mathematical models — gradually accumulating to advance humanity's knowledge. In bluefin tuna, fisheries science is never neat 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z I started to wish there was this immediate mathematical, “Moneyball” system for determining how bad these behaviors were. Michael Schur on ‘The Good Place,’ Ted Danson and Kantian Ethics 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Simon had no champions and few mathematical friends. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z Milo Andret urges his son — who unfortunately has inherited his mathematical abilities and liabilities — to repeat after him: "The will is everything. I will never give up." Ethan Canin's 'A Doubters Almanac' is a blazingly intelligent novel 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z However, in making these knitted pieces stretched over frames, Hansen uses computer algorithms programmed with scientific and mathematical data to guide texture, color and pattern. In Channing Hansen's knitted artworks, some of the credit goes to the sheep 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z I had always been taught that game theory was a mathematical thing. Michael Chwe, Author, Sees Jane Austen as Game Theorist 2013-04-22T22:06:09Z “As though too well inscribed with a mathematical ability nurtured under Utah’s firmament, Kip seemed destined for astrophysics.” Review: ‘Black Hole Blues’ Recounts the Quest to Find the Cosmic Kazoo 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z The motif impressed him deeply and gridded, letterlike images — a kind of meeting of magic and mathematical rigidity — dominated his work. Gysin, In-Depth, at New Museum of Contemporary Art 2010-06-23T22:28:00Z “For Claude Shannon” is named after the mathematical engineer who connected symbolic logic with electronic circuits. Review: ‘For Claude Shannon’ Visualizes the Links Between Text and Movement 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z The program was mathematical: four solos, two duets, one quartet. Music Review: Chucho Valdés and Gonzalo Rubalcaba at Carnegie 2012-12-05T22:57:47Z Wallace was a philosopher with a specialty in mathematical logic, and there’s something of the cool and detached logician, seeing patterns at a bright and pristine remove, in his way of speaking. David Foster Wallace Isn’t Just Like Us! 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z “Three Worlds” is more complex but less affecting because the story proceeds with mathematical calculation, and humor and romance are in short supply. Movie Review: ‘Three Worlds’ Explores the Aftermath of a Hit-and-Run 2013-06-20T20:26:16Z Simon's second explanation of his loss of mathematical direction is heartbreaking. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z Often middles, too, his stories pushing you along with the intangible dread of a fable, pulling you forward with the inexorable logic of a mathematical proof. Short Stories From Joe Hill, Spiked With Mayhem and Evil 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z While baking bread calls for mathematical precision in measuring ingredients, it doesn’t require much brain power to mix and shape the dough. Home bread master Samuel Fromartz learns by doing — and writing He made an early mark in mathematical logic. Hilary Putnam, Giant of Modern Philosophy, Dies at 89 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Plus, he used mathematical models of human performance that consider extreme athletic feats. Here's how many hot dogs a person can eat in 10 minutes, scientists say 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z The light drawings may march in rigid mathematical patterns or switch to fluid undulations. Review | In the galleries: Artechouse’s ‘Infinite Space’ has waves of natural influences 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z In trying to find an efficient solution to an arbitrary mathematical problem, they arrived at a shape as functional-looking as a crowbar. The Week in Arts: Renée Zellweger as aTemptress; Tilda Swinton and her Daughter as Co-Stars 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z It may be as close as we come to physical chess, or a kind of chess in which the mind and body are at one in attacking essentially mathematical problems. David Foster Wallace’s Perfect Game 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The story unfolds as dialogue between Alicia and her doctors, as she describes how her pursuit of revolutionary mathematical theories brought her to the brink of madness. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Ellis, based in Yucca Valley, taps into both the wild energy of nature and its mathematical order. What to see in L.A. galleries: World War II farm labor camp photography and more 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z The curators have placed it, almost insouciantly, at the back of a room full of Leonardo’s scientific sketches and mathematical speculations. Review | Quiet, please. At the Louvre’s ‘Léonard de Vinci’ exhibition, you’re in the presence of genius. 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z For his part, Sugimoto sees “Point of Infinity” not as a sculpture but, nodding to Marcel Duchamp, as a readymade, because it’s based on a mathematical model. A New Hiroshi Sugimoto Sculpture in San Francisco Reaches for Infinity 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z “When she sings the song ‘Pi,’ ” whose chorus is a recitation of the mathematical digits, “she really brings the emotion to it,” he said. Kate Bush Fans Travel to See Rare Concerts in London 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z “His mind was singularly capacious, filled with baseball statistics, detective novels, mathematical formulas, vintage wines, German hymns, you name it,” Mr. McClatchy wrote. John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z In their conversations, Alicia reveals how her pursuit of revolutionary mathematical theories made her question the nature of reality and drove her to insanity. A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Books 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z I have had similarly dreamy mathematical experiences of my own, though never one that has quite borne fruit once the mist cleared. The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z “Curious Incident” depicts Christopher as a mathematical genius with a fondness of prime numbers, a distaste for the colors yellow and brown, and a visceral aversion to physical contact. Review | ‘Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ is up to some new and mesmerizing tricks 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z However, current and projected federal spending is now closer to 25 percent of the GDP – a mathematical impossibility to achieve while spending within our means. Balancing the Budget: Simple Math, Hard Choices 2011-08-15T19:49:38Z The Times’s Ezra Klein has written about his support for effective altruism while also thoughtfully critiquing longtermism’s more fanatical expressions of “mathematical blackmail.” Effective Altruism Warned of Risks. Did It Also Incentivize Them? 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z He also shared anecdotes about Boole, mathematical logic, and the sectarian conflict of his day. ArtsBeat: Google and the Victorians: The History Goes Way Back 2010-12-03T22:49:00Z Simon's first ever mathematical memory is of sitting on his parents' sofa, working out the value of two to the power of 30. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z The intertwined narratives — which focus on a brilliant, tortured young mathematical prodigy and her brother — represent a stylistic and thematic break for McCarthy. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The first model—really a bunch of mathematical equations—proposes a solution to the question of why gravity is so much weaker than the other fundamental physical forces. The Dark Energy of a Theoretical Physicist 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z The foundation said it is basing its claim on mathematical analysis, research and other methods. Da Vinci created earlier 'Mona Lisa' painting, group claims 2012-09-28T00:30:05Z The same mathematical rigor is applied to many parameters of the work. Electronic percussion, evolving: Rosenboom, Winant at REDCAT 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z Gerring’s dancers always look like they’re working hard, which is part of the point: Effort is a recurring theme, presented with almost mathematical precision. 11 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z In his current semi-retirement, Colquhoun was hoping to complete a book on the mathematical and statistical principles of pharmacology, but he worries the sheer irrationality of the world might yet prevent him. David Colquhoun, Twitter-addicted scourge of scientific quackery 2013-04-21T08:00:08Z “A kolam is aesthetically beautiful, while at the same time, it is mathematical and philosophical,” explained Chandrasekar, who remembers watching her grandmother draw daily kolams outside her home in India. To honor Kamala Harris, these women are bringing a traditional Indian art form to D.C., made by thousands of hands 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Haque says that recently he has been writing compositions based on various mathematical ideas: particular pitch intervals, melodic motifs that evoke geometric patterns, that kind of thing. Switched-on guitar: Fareed Haque meets the Moog 2011-01-24T14:43:52Z Gödel’s “incompleteness theorem,” which he presented in 1930, when he was 24, upended his profession’s assumption that mathematics should be able to prove a mathematical statement that is true. A New Biography of Kurt Gödel, Whose Brilliant Life Intersected With the Upheavals of the 20th Century 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z “Life’s Too Short” feels in many ways like a mathematical average of the deadpan vérité style of “The Office” and the celebrity-skewering satire of “Extras.” Ricky Gervais Would Like to Non-Apologize 2012-01-11T15:17:22Z This is anything but self-evident; economists, especially of the mathematical sort, are unlikely to be transfixed by the writings of St. Augustine. The Religious Roots of Our Free Enterprise System 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z It seems counterintuitive that his deep interest in abstract mathematical concepts of replicable fragments marked the origins of the subtle figuration in his paintings. Revealing Jack Whitten’s Secret Self 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Blake's mother spoke to several journalists throughout his childhood, who duly reported on his extraordinary intellect, mathematical ability, and interest in building complex toys. From IQ tests and sperm banks to "The Queen’s Gambit": a history of gifted children 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z As odd as it might sound, I’ve never been particularly confident of my mathematical abilities. The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The “game of strategy,” as Ms. Nguyen calls it, is interpersonal and mathematical. Hip-Hop Dance at the Crossing the Line Festival 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z For “Buckyball,” Mr. Villareal applied concepts of geometry and mathematical relationships inspired by Fuller to produce two nested geodesic sculptural spheres made up of LED tubes arranged in pentagons and hexagons. Inside Art: Van de Velde War Painting From 1600s Goes on Sale 2012-06-28T21:19:04Z “All these mathematical patterns are draped over each other in layers of different textures,” she explained. The Unexpected Philosophical Depths of Clicker Games 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z As the artist said in her spacious, well-lit loft on the edge of SoHo, “Even though it has an intellectual basis and mathematical structure, my work comes from a deep emotional source within me.” Dorothea Rockburne’s Ephemeral Art and Enduring Legacy 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z In Bach’s mathematical construction, the 32 movements are mirrored in the Aria’s 32 measures, which are split into two 16-bar passages that are both repeated — a structure that recurs throughout. A Pianist’s Rare Visit to New York Reveals His Personality 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z More recent failures of data analysis include the Wall Street crash of 2008, which was accelerated by hugely complicated trading schemes based upon mathematical algorithms. Books of The Times: ‘Big Data,’ by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier 2013-06-10T21:43:52Z This new offering stars Martin Fowler, a mathematical physicist turned analyst who tracks foreign currencies. When the Au Pair Helps With the Care of the Children and the Sex Life of the Parents 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Childs’s choreography is diagrammatic, so mathematical as to be almost by the numbers. Critic’s Notebook: The Importance of Movement in ‘Einstein on the Beach,’ at BAM 2012-09-17T22:08:41Z A true Christmas movie must adhere to the following scientific, mathematical and logical rules: The ultimate festive film? No, it’s not Die Hard | Hadley Freeman 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z The golden ratio refers to the mathematical expression of "1: phi," where phi is an irrational number, roughly 1.618. The African roots of Swiss design 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z For some characters, the story arcs, whether of sin and redemption or of just desserts finally served, are fairly mathematical — sometimes at the expense of an emotional payoff. 'Book of Negroes' is a compelling look at a slave's journey 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Last season, Mr. Fujiwara’s show was a cerebral study of mathematical theory. Special Report: Fashion: Life on the Ocean Wave 2010-10-01T18:50:00Z Whether mystical, mathematical or practical, all the forms shimmer in Jordann Wine’s “Infinite Glitter.” Review | In the galleries: Crossing the line between aesthetics and science 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Yes, we were demonstrating the mathematical concept of “going No. 1” and “going No. 2.” This is how much we care about bringing you the annual Post Hunt 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Her 1998 star charts, arrayed in rough grids on gray or black backgrounds, are both unearthly and mathematical. In the galleries: Finding new ways to take in the natural world 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z This approach opens the whole world to mathematical analysis. ‘100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know About Math and the Arts’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z It isn't a chore to immerse one's self in mathematical concepts and other abstractions; it is like stumbling across a home you didn't know was there, but always suspected existed. Bullied, autistic and obsessed with presidents: How the 2000 presidential election changed my life 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z But while the film may sketch two different mathematical philosophies, we leave the cinema with a warm glow that comes from anything but hard thinking. Genius by numbers: why Hollywood maths movies don't add up 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z "Since about 1800 people have tended to associate maps with mathematical geography, but it is a self-closing view to say if something is pretty it can't be a map," says Mr Barber. Art of maps 2010-04-30T09:48:00Z The article concludes that dividing the length in such a manner adheres to the ratio, suggesting that Michelangelo designed the fresco with the mathematical rule in mind. Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes linked to the golden ratio 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Careful mathematical reasoning is required to exit each battlefield, and the clever design is softened by Ward’s whimsy. The Best Video Games of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Known as “computers”, they charted the position and brightness of stars on a daily basis by applying mathematical formulae to the observations of their male colleagues who watched the sky. Looking at the stars 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z No other team had a mathematical chance of victory. Bridge: A Pretty Defense Rescues a Questionable Lead 2011-05-06T21:45:44Z That’s Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old mathematical genius for whom walking down the street or holding a conversation is a herculean challenge. 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' Opens on Broadway 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z His talent for radio repair attracts attention to his genius, and he leaves Zollverein for a Hitler Youth academy, then for a special assignment that uses mathematical methods to track and destroy the Resistance. 'All the Light We Cannot See' pinpoints 2 lives in war 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z His pharaonic name — which he formulated as a teenager, after leaving home in the projects in Far Rockaway, Queens, and later legally adopted — was not a name at all, he insisted, but a mathematical equation. Rammellzee?s Work and Reputation Re-emerge 2012-02-24T02:36:40Z That two movies each earned nine nominations is their only mathematical parity. Film: Huge Film, Small Film: Big Stakes 2010-03-06T09:54:00Z It was originally called the Schillinger House of Music and specialised in a system of harmony and composition based on mathematical models by Joseph Schillinger, a Russian musician who died in 1943. Mecca for modern music 2012-05-29T13:02:04Z You can easily figure out your own: Plug in a height and weight to the mathematical formula, and any result over 30 is classified as obese according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People are getting vaccinated due to their BMI. They have mixed feelings about it. 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z This is a fascinating theory, but it’s important to note that it’s just that: The study’s findings are based on a biological and mathematical model. Study: There is no “gay gene” 2012-12-11T21:53:00Z The way Padgett views the world is completely altered; he describes being able to visually see mathematical patterns in the world. His brain injury made him a math genius: Science explains why 2014-05-06T21:45:00Z Perhaps only mathematical entities are real, and our physical world is an “outcropping” of mathematics. ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-03T22:40:08Z The dramatic organization of a movie is essentially mathematical; the stylistic tone is essentially poetic. “Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia” and the Question of the Substance of Style 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z He didn't speak or write in jargon, he didn't rely on complex mathematical equations for his economic conclusions. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z “In the 1820s Lincoln assembled his own notebook to work on mathematical problems, known at the time as a sum book or cypher book,” Krowl said. 10 things you may not know about Abraham Lincoln 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Discussing Descartes, he recalls that visitors to the great Frenchman would sometimes beg to see his mathematical instruments. Finally, a biography of the man who invented biography 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z It raged about suspicious Sharpies in Arizona, about “irregularities” and “anomalies” in Georgia, about weaponized pizza boxes used to obscure democracy in Michigan, about “mathematical impossibilities” in Wisconsin, about ghosts in Philadelphia. It began on a gold escalator. It may have ended at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z Together these inputs, or assumptions, are the fuel for the engine of the model, and are critical to getting useful and accurate estimates on the back end of the mathematical machinery. I have developed disease models. Here's why COVID-19 projections can seem inconsistent 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z Even without knowing that the cohabitation has been faked, the mathematical precision of his images often seems too exacting to be a representation of something real. Artist of the week 132: Andrew Grassie 2011-04-01T10:35:10Z “There are new kinds of mathematical surfaces that are used, in making these objects,” he said. Pixar's Scientific Method 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z He thus presents us with a choice: "Either the world is in essence mathematical or it lives in time." Time Reborn by Lee Smolin – review 2013-06-06T06:30:01Z Or will the experience be pinned down in a mathematical formula? The conundrum of mind and matter: what is consciousness? 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Since then the discipline has thrived, often dominating political science, economics and biology departments with densely mathematical analyses of phenomena as diverse as nuclear brinkmanship, the fate of protest movements, stock trading and predator behavior. Michael Chwe, Author, Sees Jane Austen as Game Theorist 2013-04-22T22:06:09Z In labored pages, thick with cryptic mathematical symbols and ornamented with rough, quizzical sketches of the nervous system’s branchings, Freud described the psyche as an energetic “apparatus.” Review | A brain researcher on what Freud got right 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Significantly, throughout the acoustic section Roy's guitar and voice are being continually treated, approaching at times a mathematical precision in duplication of studio production. Roy Harper: 'I'm not very communicative' 2013-07-17T16:49:47Z You don’t need to know that the impulse for this project was a popular mathematical text on asymmetry to recognize its uncanny spark and quirky charm. In San Francisco, Art That Unspools the Mysteries of the Universe 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Man Ray’s mathematical models, Breton feared, belonged to the world of rationality. Man Ray inserts the human factor into the equation 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z “Every house is almost the same, and you get this feeling of repetition, a mathematical, geometric, confining world.” How ‘The Little Prince’ Came to Animated Life 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z He developed a curriculum that analyzed the environment through a mathematical lens. I’m Jewish and vegan — here’s how I celebrate Rosh Hashanah 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z And the mathematical proportions applied to meter changes — two units in duple time equal three in triple time — generally led to slower tempos. Music Review: Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin 2013-01-03T23:10:05Z But engagement is hardly the point, and it would be no wiser to evaluate a Malick movie for its story potential than one looks to a poem for mathematical truths. 'Knight of Cups:' Why Terrence Malick is at the top of his game 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Here, in black and white, were the mathematical formulae to create the Dresden firestorm. TV review: The House That Made Me 2010-12-10T08:00:00Z According to author and autism advocate Temple Grandin, there are three ways that autistic people can think: They can be visual thinkers, musical/mathematical thinkers or verbal/logic thinkers. Bullied, autistic and obsessed with presidents: How the 2000 presidential election changed my life 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Baudry will preside over an exploration of mathematical styles and the process of discovery. French Embassy Starts a Festival and Albertine, a Bookstore 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z When the worldwide media was universally proclaiming the race too close to call and the pundits were deriding mathematical models, FiveThirtyEight.com steadily argued that the odds made clear that Obama would win. The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver – review 2012-11-09T22:55:11Z The greatest mathematical mind of his age, challenged by a nobody: what better example of what Mr Mokyr calls the “principle of contestability”? The role of ideas in the “great divergence” 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z So the politically smart way has been tried, but it doesn’t answer the mathematical challenges that we’re up against. Burr-Coburn: The Best Medicare Reform Proposal Yet 2012-02-16T16:01:02Z Why is reference to mathematical ideas considered “superfluous technical jargon” while references to a medieval story of romance and a hundred-year-old book about a day in Dublin are not? Markov Chains, Sinclair Lewis and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z A woman is the mother of five children who shared three fathers, “a mathematical riddle and parentage conundrum.” Two Thai Novelists Explore Bangkok’s Swirl of Remembering and Forgetting 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z It wasn’t the stuff I was working on, but in the very worst manifestation it was actually kind of a weaponized mathematical algorithm. The case against big data: “It’s like you’re being put into a cult, but you don’t actually believe in it” 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Professor Stewart's mathematical curiosities and treasures | Science Book Club 4. Albert Einstein: 'Dear Ma, sorry you're ill ? p.s. I'm a genius' 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z The title itself acquires multiple meanings, whether as an affectionate shorthand for kisses, a mathematical symbol or simply a signifier of the unknowable. London Theater Review: ‘Les Blancs,’ ‘X‘ and ‘Cyprus Avenue’ 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Brown freed himself of Kent’s Vetruvian principles of mathematical ratios and started sculpting panoramic landscapes for their romantic effect. The landscape architect who bottled nature 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Akiho has an uncanny gift for intricate rhythmic counterpoint, though the mathematical precision of the final product emerged through epic stretches of stream-of-consciousness play. One Composer, Four Players, ‘Seven Pillars’ 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The star famously turned down both The Matrix and Django Unchained; the argument for him as a generation-defining movie star is more mathematical than it is based on real affection. Can Will Smith Become a Major Movie Star Again? 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z She stirred Voltaire’s interest in science, but he couldn’t follow her into the depths of Newtonian physics, lacking her prodigious mathematical skills. Critic?s Notebook: A Mistress of Voltaire, Set to Video 2011-06-05T22:05:53Z That’s certainly true at this event, where the challenges happen to be mathematical. Spare Times for Children Listings for Sept. 16-22 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z These days, Forsythe's movement is less physically extreme, she says, judging it "a little bit more mathematical and cerebral". Sylvie Guillem: 'I need to scare myself' 2013-02-10T18:00:01Z There’s probably a mathematical equation that expresses the formula for the perfect bar. The NYC cocktail bar that reminds us how hard drink-making actually is 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z “There There” was shot on iPhones, which has been done before, but this production posed novel mathematical and spatial problems. In ‘There There,’ the Actors in the Room Are Far Far From Each Other 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z In the event she returned to Beirut and a great stream of gorgeous syncopated abstracts that are based on mathematical permutations but fly free of science. Saloua Raouda Choucair – review 2013-04-20T23:05:40Z For years I had convinced myself that my failure to obtain a boyfriend was mathematical — too few parties attended, too few men befriended, too little time dedicated to Tinder. Am I Gay or Straight? Maybe This Fun Quiz Will Tell Me 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z And if you find one, there’s a mathematical equation to tell you how long it’ll last. Science explains why romance is all about sex 2014-05-09T16:24:00Z It is a mathematical impossibility for us to do otherwise. Rationing Hospital Care May Be the Only Way to Keep Medicaid Intact 2011-10-24T21:59:19Z And the fiercely mathematical structure, timing and precision of the male duet perfectly replicates the tension and fear evoked by the music. Review: A Decade On, Wayne McGregor Continues to Energize the Royal Ballet 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z I just learned a mathematical equation on what it would look like, time times rates, and what the interest would be. What does being fly mean to Dapper Dan? Liberation 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z “Matchmaking is not a mathematical thing, it’s getting a sense of somebody, and thinking this person would match well with this other person.” Date Lab: ‘Our hello was not comfortable,’ he said 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Gwen Fisher, a mathematical artist, will guide participants in exploring pattern, symmetry and shape. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 7-13 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z My earliest memory of anything like a mathematical idea comes from a childhood walk with my dad. The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Does the man with the Molotov cocktail in some mathematical way create a deficit in the social order that requires the compensation of a military confrontation? Images coming from Ferguson, Mo., reveal unfiltered, uncomfortable truths Masters of the art will teach the techniques through mathematical formulas — a little sneaky summer learning — and make some joyful noise. Spare Times for Children for July 11-17 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Liu’s style reflects this: Structurally, the book proceeds like a mathematical proof, with arguments — about science, nature, society — building upon one another toward a conclusion that has been veiled, but visible, since the beginning. ‘Three-Body’ Review: A Chinese Series Beats Netflix to the Screen 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Green is my favorite color, which gave these mathematical factoids profound significance to me. Bullied, autistic and obsessed with presidents: How the 2000 presidential election changed my life 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z Seldon has developed a theory of psychohistory, a mixture of history, sociology, and mathematical statistics, which he uses to make general predictions about the fate of future populations. "Foundation": An introduction to five major themes in the work of sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z Assume you are using a basic calculator and press the numbers in order, replacing each question mark with a mathematical sign. Girl, 12, wins maximum Mensa IQ test score 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z “The mathematical contributions von Neumann made in the mid-20th century now appear more eerily prescient with every passing year,” Bhattacharya writes, alluding to this book’s excellent title. ‘The Man From the Future’ Recounts the Life of a Restless Genius 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z The second part centres on the work of Claude Shannon, the American mathematical genius who in 1948 proposed a general theory of information. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z The mathematical models, though solid, are all about the surfaces described by the equations they represent. Man Ray inserts the human factor into the equation 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Another was a skepticism of the mathematical tools used by neoclassical economists elsewhere. Can We Trust Economists? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z So the studio worked up this sequel, which accomplishes the depressingly familiar mathematical trick of being both more and less than its predecessor. | 'Kung Fu Panda 2': A Noble Panda Takes On a Nightmare Enemy 2011-05-25T21:42:30Z Lines like these, from “Isis,” combine the matter-of-fact tone of film noir with the rigor of a mathematical proof: Bob Dylan: America’s Great One-Man Songbook 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Instead, she spent two years laboring on a single piano piece, guided by the mathematical methods of serialism that were in vogue in the academy. A MacArthur for the Composer Julia Wolfe 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z JN: There's an interesting coincidence in the fact that the two defining breakthroughs in modern communications – the transistor and Shannon's mathematical theory of information – should have emerged from the same lab at the same time. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z And no mathematical system is complete: as Kurt Gödel, an Austrian logician, showed in the 1930s, there are always true statements that the system is not strong enough to prove. Circle in a circle 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z First there’s the mathematical piece of it, then the visualization of why certain ideas matter to him and, finally, the idea of why they should matter to the species as a whole. A Scientist Puts Things in Perspective 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z At other times, “Careless Crime” feels rather enervating, the film’s political charge and the pathos of its characters diffused by Mokri’s mathematical zeal. ‘Careless Crime’ Review: A Time Loop in Iran 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Rather than replicate the book, it complements it by enabling the reader to participate in animated mathematical puzzles featuring a cartoon version of Mr. Sautoy. Design: On an Innovative Device, Apps Lacking Imagination 2010-11-29T21:18:00Z Through the 19th and 20th centuries, Facts reached adulthood as the world underwent a shift toward proving things true through the principles of physics and mathematical modeling. Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012 2012-04-20T21:47:00Z Translated by Adrian Nathan West, the book takes the stories of real scientific and mathematical breakthroughs — such as Albert Einstein’s equation for general relativity — and uses them to muse about humanity’s destructive power. French Authors Lead International Booker Prize Shortlist 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z I was like, This is quite frankly not mathematical. The case against big data: “It’s like you’re being put into a cult, but you don’t actually believe in it” 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z A variety of angled scrims in geometrical shapes on a spare set come alive with images: flaming candles, unfolding script, human figures, mathematical diagrams, the sun and its corona. Critic?s Notebook: A Mistress of Voltaire, Set to Video 2011-06-05T22:05:53Z “It’s very mathematical,” Gurung says, “the way the pattern is fragmented.” | Prabal Gurung 2012-06-12T16:03:39Z The new logo features mathematical symbols and the word “TOUR.” Ed Sheeran becomes shirt sponsor of English club Ipswich 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z The robe’s folds are supple and sinuous, and the trim, zigzagged with an elaborate and unbroken knotting pattern, has a mathematical intricacy that gives this Christian painting a surprising Islamic touch. That $450 Million Leonardo? It’s No Mona Lisa. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z I don’t want to put it into a mathematical explanation of how it happens. ArtsBeat: Off the Couch, Into the Multiplexes: Irrfan Khan on His New Big-Screen Roles 2010-12-06T17:13:00Z Enormously influential at the Darmstadt summer courses in Germany, the unofficial headquarters of the avant-garde, he wrote music fueled by mathematical procedures and experimental rigor. An Operatic Conundrum Untangled 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z These are inspired by the “mathematical design of the stamen,” a gallery note explains. Review | In the galleries: This art will really speak to you 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z “Finding the right combinations of folds to create a shape is like finding the most elegant mathematical proof,” Mr. Cooper said in the comments next to the art. Art by the Numbers 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Above the mathematical calculations and processes were the earthy melodies of Ms. Garbus’s lead vocals: whispers, bluesy curves, girlish clarity, leathery rasps. Music Review: Tune-Yards at the Allen Room 2012-02-11T01:06:46Z If that is true, then it is something like a mathematical certainty that the greatest actor in the world today is Nicolas Cage. Film: Midwinter Ritual: When Good Actor Meets Bad Movie 2011-02-19T03:43:01Z I am flummoxed by the simplest mathematical tasks, and they've saved my sanity every time I've made recipe calling for three-quarters of a measure of anything. Why I love my unitaskers (with apologies to Alton Brown) 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z Expect gonzo adventure and cutting-edge mathematical ideas, plus a literal million-mile road trip. The best science fiction and fantasy of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Social climbers: ants have evolved behaviour that complexity scientists can turn into mathematical instructions. My bright idea: Peter Miller on ants 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Those tools include studying fossils, counting organisms with different features in different environmental niches, and developing mathematical models of real and artificial life forms. Sex’s feel-good evolution: Charles Darwin’s erotic shocker 2014-03-09T20:00:00Z “It’s so intensely mathematical,” he said, “but also expressive.” Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Choreography for ‘Anna Karenina’ 2012-11-23T21:30:27Z “I had been interested in just intonation and making connections with mathematical structures, influenced especially by Babbitt and Xenakis,” Otto said, “and Young’s music really made me aware of the richness within apparent stasis.” Richness in Stasis: La Monte Young Finally Releases ‘Trio’ 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Tom is a web developer, and he’s working on a video game that uses the spiral’s mathematical and spiritual principles. Date Lab: She kicked things off with a kiss on the cheek 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Although a mathematical prodigy, his form of autism means he struggles with everyday situations. West End move for Curious play 2012-11-01T14:59:05Z In “The Passenger,” McCarthy tells the tragic story of Bobby Western, a salvage diver, who is haunted by the loss of his sister Alicia, a beautiful and troubled mathematical genius who died by suicide. A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Books 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z A locket-size portrait of a woman, black and red geometric designs that morphed surreally, and a series of mathematical symbols alluded to the chaotic thoughts of a man on his deathbed. Elliott Sharp’s ‘Port Bou,’ an Opera About Walter Benjamin 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z For Army’s Black Knights, the 28-point defeat was actually a mathematical improvement; their 58–12 loss to Navy a year earlier was the most lopsided in series history. 9/11 and West Point football’s epic losing streak of 2003 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z The imagery is rendered in realistic detail using fractals: fractured geometric shapes that keep iterating reduced-size copies of themselves according to mathematical formulas. 3-D Comes to Met Opera, but Without Those Undignified Glasses 2011-02-16T00:00:12Z His early work deconstructed images and photographs into series of grid-based drawings governed by mathematical formulas. On Governors Island, a Machine That Jolts History 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z By some authoritative estimates, he can't secure a mathematical lock on the nomination until sometime in May, at the earliest. Romney fails to deliver knockout blow 2012-03-07T13:05:00Z Hopefully our mathematical approach to Wordle hasn't sucked all the joy out of the game. Want to master Wordle? Here’s the best strategy for your first guess 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z According to Lindley, something happened in 20th-century theoretical physics that caused some in the field to “reach back to the ancient justifications for mathematical elegance as a criterion for knowledge, even truth.” Has Physics Lost Its Way? 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z But you really can’t hang a drama on a mathematical theory and expect it to serve as a shortcut for storytelling. | 'Domain': ?Domain,? Written and Directed by Patric Chiha - Review 2012-01-12T22:19:40Z But he also has an improbable gift for making mathematical equations and raw geological data fly like drawing-room banter. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Punished By Fame 2011-02-25T16:44:55Z Segel doesn’t quite reach the rarefied realms of the mathematical aspect of Wallace’s temperament. David Foster Wallace Isn’t Just Like Us! 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z My father has a mathematical model named after him, but I spent six years believing him to be the stupidest individual ever to walk the face of the earth. Why your teenager thinks you’re an idiot 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z The Academy allows five to 10 best pictures nominees, although for mathematical reasons related to the way the preferential ballot is counted, it’s unlikely that voters will actually anoint the maximum. The Carpetbagger: Let the Red Carpets Roll 2013-12-05T00:35:45Z There was physical evidence — according to defense lawyers, “almost to a mathematical certainty” — that the fatal shot was not aimed at Clark but instead ricocheted off the car. The Civil Rights Stories We Need to Remember 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z But in junior ranks, teenagers from countries like Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Pakistan are in the ascendancy, viewing tile points and bonus squares as more of a mathematical challenge than a test of vocabulary. Scrabble casts spell over Asia with Welsh hugs and mustard seeds 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z The festival offered up funk as motion, as repetition, as a mathematical pattern, as a process, as a communal project, as a yardstick of history and a reason to just dance. ArtsBeat: Bonnaroo: The Red Hot Chili Peppers Get Funky 2012-06-10T19:23:59Z That is the unquenchable human urge to acquire knowledge, whether carnal, mathematical, historical or metaphysical. | 'Arcadia': The 180-Year Itch, Metaphysically Speaking 2011-03-18T02:01:09Z By building performances on relatively simple mathematical ideas, says the guitarist, he and the trio have been able to construct surprisingly complex improvisations. Switched-on guitar: Fareed Haque meets the Moog 2011-01-24T14:43:52Z This allows the SAT to test for real mathematical understanding, as opposed to the ability to enter numbers into a machine. 5 Things Students Must Know About the New SAT 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z His ruthless dissection of free-market injustice took root 15 years ago in the subsoil of tax archives and mathematical formulas. Cultural Studies: Thomas Piketty, the Economist Behind ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ Is the Latest Overnight Intellectual Sensation 2014-04-25T23:51:03Z As with mathematical proofs, it's ultimately the results that matter: "The struggle vanishes. What remains is the work, and the work either stands or falls." Ethan Canin's 'A Doubters Almanac' is a blazingly intelligent novel 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z But her major contribution was her translation of a mathematical tract by Newton, from Latin. Preview: 'Emilie' at ArtsWest shows an 18th-century female scientist's remarkable life, loves 2011-01-20T22:26:03Z If this twenty-something is not happy, then that’s what you address with her, without using dubious mathematical formulas and without even pinning your concern to the guy. How to handle best friend’s engagement to a freeloader 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Most recommendation systems are based on what's known as "collaborative filtering," a mathematical process that can sort large data sets into groups that share certain affinities or characteristics. TV seems to know what you want to see; algorithms at work 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z At the fact that there's a building in Canada that looks like a mathematical problem itself which is full of people whose job is to sit around pondering these questions. TV review: Horizon: What Happened Before the Big Bang? and Wild Britain with Ray Mears 2010-10-12T07:00:00Z Carolyn Fischer, a public finance and natural resources economist, developed a clever mathematical model to show how procrastination can be in our best interests. Procrastination rules 2012-07-02T01:00:00Z A globe of the world, showing America, shares space with a lute, an astronomical globe, a Turkish rug used as a tablecloth, and a selection of mathematical instruments. A world of discovery is tainted by a dark shadow in Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors 2012-08-21T10:36:01Z Yes, the world has shifted on its axis thanks to the revelation that brunettes may, under highly specific mathematical circumstances, be porkable. A Beautiful Mind hides ugly truths 2012-12-19T17:27:18Z For the atmospheric “Skybox,” presented by New York Live Arts and performed offsite at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, the choreographer is inspired by ancient Roman frescoes, a 17th-century mathematical theory and a late mannerist painting. Dance Listings for the Fall Season and Beyond 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z It’s almost a mathematical equation where people sit down and decide, “O.K., the chorus has to be here, the verses here, the pre- there and that’s why the bridge says this.” For Lukas Graham, ‘7 Years’ Changed Everything and Nothing 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z That coiled diagram, which emerged from a mathematical ratio, now adorns the flat wooden surface of a shieldlike structure that conceals 24 strings made to vibrate by electromagnets. Listen to Five of the World’s Newest, Wildest Instruments 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Auburn clearly wants this to be a story in which mathematical and emotional equations, intellect and feeling, collide. Proof – review 2013-03-21T18:03:18Z Anyone caught on a camera—for example at a football match—is logged, with their face turned into a mathematical matrix and stored on a database. Knowledge is power 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z She had a brief flash of celebrity as Byron's daughter, but no one, with the lone exception of Charles Babbage, had a chance to glimpse her formidable mathematical powers. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z The great boon of this exhibition is the presence of the mathematical models that energized Man Ray’s decades-long fixation on these forms. Man Ray inserts the human factor into the equation 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z On paper, Mr. Corden was a mathematical lock to host the Tonys, which will be held this year at the Beacon Theater. James Corden’s Goal: Tony Awards That Let Everyone in on the Joke 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z They can seem very charming and expressionistic to the untrained eye, but to his premieres they were almost mathematical in their precision, almost like a secret language between Karl and the ateliers.” Inside the Met’s Plans for a Major Karl Lagerfeld Show 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z If the answer is "yes" then you've got some mathematical gift. Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos| Book review 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z It’s unclear why the branch of mathematical logic that studies sets and is considered to be a foundational system for mathematics is so anathema to God. 7 absurd things America’s kids are learning thanks to conservatives 2014-03-04T13:00:00Z “To go into the world of mathematical genius is a great leap of the imagination.” ‘A Doubter’s Almanac,’ Ethan Canin’s Latest Novel, Has Real-Life Parallels 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Some of the arrangements seem too mathematical at first, but all gain nuance with time. MMA-themed 'Kingdom' hits all the right spots 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z For Mr. Peck, who is intrigued by side projects that involve presenting dance in a new or different way, creating the pieces was like solving a mathematical riddle. You’re the Choreographer, an iPad’s Your Stage 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Radically self-contained, Salander is never more herself than when she’s alone, working on mathematical problems such as “loop quantum gravity theory.” Lisbeth Salander is back in ‘The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z He suffered a bleeding kidney and a severe concussion, and emerged a mathematical savant with synesthesia — a condition where one sense runs into the other. His brain injury made him a math genius: Science explains why 2014-05-06T21:45:00Z Of course there are risks, and it’s very difficult to calculate them in a mathematical way. But you do your best. Werner Herzog in North Korea: “We had a deeper understanding because of the quest for reunification” 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z He tackled its mathematical models like a college student grappling with calculus and internalized just intonation’s axioms. How a Pro Skateboarder Became an Apostle of Ancient Tuning 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z To put it in mathematical if perhaps cynical terms: Hitler + handicap + Shakespeare + $100 million = best picture. Film: Best Movie Query? You Win 2011-02-23T17:20:40Z Yet in contrast to LeWitt, who explicitly enumerated the mathematical or geometric rules that determined his drawings, Darboven never let order supersede invention. The Perils of Order, Taken to the Extreme 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Ritchie asked the faculty to contribute ideas for diagrams, reproducing a currently unsolved mathematical problem in computer science called the “P versus NP problem.” At Cornell Tech, Art Engineered for the Imagination 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z “And that I wanted to understand something about philosophy. Somehow, it’s weird, because it’s an adventure book, but it’s full of mysteries, mental labyrinths that are philosophical and mathematical.” Albertine Reparue: A French Bookshop in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Gödel’s proof landed on a mathematical statement that was true but unprovable. A New Biography of Kurt Gödel, Whose Brilliant Life Intersected With the Upheavals of the 20th Century 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Oh, and he's a mathematical whiz, determined to win a place at university, something no one at his special school has done before. Three bright performances on Broadway: Nathan Lane, Michael Cera and Alex Sharp 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z The band’s name is actually the mathematical symbol delta, which resembles a triangle. Music Review: Alt-J, From England, Makes Its Brooklyn Debut at Glasslands 2012-08-08T22:14:11Z Because once you prove a mathematical statement, it just is true forever, or so I thought. In this global crisis, there’s one consolation: the beauty of the universe 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Of the latter, listen out for a running joke about how to explain new mathematical theories; this pair have a real gift for mining great comedy from the vocabulary of science. This week's new comedy 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z He wasn’t really educated, and got all these incredible mathematical equations from what he claimed was God. Dev Patel: 'I Want to Be Very Selective in the Story I Go to India to Tell' 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Some who have followed McCarthy’s work on “The Passenger” over the years say that he wrestled with the expositions of mathematical and philosophical concepts, and took pains to get the details right. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The work resembles a mathematical pattern and is made of almost 24 miles of cordage dyed in three distinct color palettes. LAX unveils public art by Ball-Nogues, Mark Bradford and Pae White 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z He received his undergraduate degree from Oxford and got his Ph.D. from Cambridge in 1966, largely based on his mathematical proof that showed that an expanding universe must begin in a singularity — the singularity theorem. Revisiting the Unusual Celebrity of Stephen Hawking 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z Regardless, the point is that Kurt Gödel actually discovered mathematical solutions to Einstein's equations that would allow for a form of time travel in a universe that was governed by general relativity. Charles Yu's top 10 time travel books 2010-10-20T09:29:00Z Early in his career, Tversky was a “mathematical psychologist,” which meant that he used formal models to characterize human behavior. The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z One German merchant holds a mathematical diagram in one hand, and by his elbow lies a curling scrap of paper with a line from the Aeneid. Hans Holbein: Truth in Painting 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z He recommended that Mr. McBurney read Hardy’s book “A Mathematician’s Apology,” which compared the creative work of the mathematical proof to that of a painter or a poet. Simon McBurney Discusses His ?Disappearing Number? 2010-07-02T08:19:00Z There's an arcane mathematical discipline called "information theory" that underpins all digital communications nowadays and yet resolutely disdains to make any connection between information and meaning. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z The same with science: you discover something unexpected – mountains on the moon, say – and afterwards there is mathematical work to give it sense. Alain Badiou: a life in writing 2012-05-18T21:55:11Z Padgett, who works in Tacoma, tells the story of how a traumatic brain injury led him to suddenly become a mathematical savant with synesthesia. Local authors write about genius, perception and jobs 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z “She has this wonderful mathematical mind, and I think she applies that as she receives information,” Battle observed. An Ailey Dancer’s Career Blooms, at the Company and Beyond 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Around the same time, Lidy Prati was making rigorously geometric paintings reflecting scientific and mathematical ideas current at the time in Buenos Aires. Art Review | 'Constructive Spirit': History Lesson in Abstraction, Cutting Across the Americas 2010-02-19T05:50:00Z He used these to map mathematical equations, the shape of walnut trees and the ephemeral movements of a choreographer friend. How the dense grids of artist Charles Gaines took the ego out of art 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Yet it at first seemed unlikely that Mark Haddon's novel about a boy with a mathematical gift and "behavioural problems" could possibly work in the theatre. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Untold Stories – review 2013-03-17T00:05:53Z Einstein’s mathematical work also implied that space was curved, so that Euclid’s geometry didn’t quite provide an adequate explanation over the vast distances of space. Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party 2012-11-25T19:00:00Z A current exhibit by Rudolf Sikora, a Slovak, tracks his evolution as a leader of Bratislava’s dissident art scene toward the end of the Communist era, when he expressed himself with mathematical symbols. Scene/Seen: A Slovakian Contemporary Art Museum Girds for Expansion 2011-08-19T13:45:30Z They are then arranged with a kind of radical simplicity or Pythagorean mathematical purity that continues, long after Duchamp, to challenge fundamental notions of the definition of art. For Carl Andre, Less Is Still Less 2011-07-17T02:00:06Z Their pulsing lines and numbers resemble a merger of mathematical equations, molecular models and computer circuitry as well as atomic structures — they also seem to chart the energy of thought itself. The Outsider Art Fair Returns, in Top Form 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Kay Ryan’s poetry is comforting to me: Her poems are short and mathematical and ordered, yet plunge somewhere messy, light up something about mystery and meaning. The Last Book That Made Aimee Bender Laugh Out Loud 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The real importance of this discovery, as Kennedy says, is that it allies Plato with the heretical, Pythagorean idea that "mathematical law governed the universe and not Zeus". Magic numbers 2010-07-01T15:09:00Z Finally, Alok meets Charlotte Watts, professor of social and mathematical epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, to discuss her research on violence and HIV. Science Weekly podcast: David Eagleman on Sum, the opera 2012-06-10T23:05:01Z Each is a quartet for two men and two women; each responds, though without slavishness, to multiple layers of the music; each catches Bach’s opposition and connection of emotionally fraught lines and larger mathematical structures. 2010-01-21T06:42:00Z There's a mathematical formula that governs how many books are ordered; if 80,000 to 100,000 copies of a book are initially printed the library will order 15 to 20 copies. How to order books for an award-winning library 2011-06-10T19:19:04Z Actually, the programme argues, Newton's interest in alchemy, far from hindering his scientific and mathematical discoveries, actually helped. Newton: The Last Magician and The Security Man – review 2013-04-13T06:00:50Z There's a strain of mathematical nerdiness to all one-liner specialists, of course; the remorseless wordplay, the dismantling of linguistic certainties brick by brick, suggests an obsessive personality. Milton Jones – review 2013-02-10T16:55:06Z If folks who are not in a relationship are worried about the probability of finding a soulmate there’s a mathematical equation for that too. True love calculus: It’s more complex than you plus me equals us 2014-03-13T19:53:00Z There are some not-so-subtle parallels between Mr. Canin’s creative ambitions and his struggles as a writer, and his protagonist’s tortured pursuit of elusive mathematical truths. ‘A Doubter’s Almanac,’ Ethan Canin’s Latest Novel, Has Real-Life Parallels 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z People automatically assume Bach was this dry, dour, mathematical composer. James Rhodes: 'I hate the term "classical music"' 2011-01-23T00:05:24Z He compares the experience of being bewildered when working out a mathematical problem to reading some prose or poetry he doesn’t quite understand. Math Defeated Him in School. In His 60s, He Went Back for More. 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Working with a further collaborator at the University of Birmingham, the changes in multiple compounds were combined using artificial intelligence algorithm techniques to develop a mathematical equation to distinguish between ASD and healthy controls. New test can detect autism in children, scientists say 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z The career of one of the great mathematical prodigies of the 20th century was over. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z They all seemed mathematical and rather remote, however. Two Iranian Artists and the Revolution 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z It creates a mathematical representation, or vector, that identifies a bassoon. How A.I. Is Creating Building Blocks to Reshape Music and Art 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z It’s highly mathematical counterpoint that still feels improvised. Cardi B’s All-Star Team-Up, and 9 More New Songs 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Working with mathematical algorithms but also with their gut, their instincts. Maggie Siff on ‘Billions’: ‘I Might Leave Marks’ 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Dubin also won a daytime Emmy in 1990 for his work on “Square One TV,” a Children’s Television Workshop show that taught mathematical concepts. Charles S. Dubin, Television Director, Is Dead at 92 2011-09-10T00:48:55Z Gödel refused the nihilistic conclusion drawn by some from his work: that because there were truths that weren’t provable, nothing mathematical was truly knowable. A New Biography of Kurt Gödel, Whose Brilliant Life Intersected With the Upheavals of the 20th Century 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z It was while studying plein-air painting at an academy there that she experienced a kind of mathematical revelation, seeing the landscape as a set of universal principles. Art Review: From Theorems and Numbers, the Geometry of a Diverse Career 2011-07-21T22:35:53Z What I found was that the stuff I was doing was actually, in its own way, also a mathematical lie, a mathematical deception. The case against big data: “It’s like you’re being put into a cult, but you don’t actually believe in it” 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The pelican perches on an armillary sphere — a model of the cosmos as it was understood in 1581 — which in turn sits on a complex pillar sundial etched with mathematical, astronomical and magical symbols. Oxford: Where time is fluid, Latin is far from dead and every stone tells a story 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z This mathematical construct lends structure to the volume, though this is the one aspect of the enterprise that feels artificial and contrived — happily, something the reader barely notices so engaging is Mr. Brown’s narrative. Books of The Times: ‘Hello Goodbye Hello,’ by Craig Brown 2012-08-05T20:56:23Z The friends, both 34, made a bunch of dresses with prints that have traditionally been considered more boyish, such as mathematical symbols and dinosaurs. Beyond the girl and boy aisles: How funneling kids into a category can hurt 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Mundy’s narrative turns thrilling as she chronicles the eureka moments when the women succeed in cracking codes, relying on a mixture of mathematical expertise, memorization and occasional leaps of intuition. The Women Who Helped America Crack Axis Codes 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Its cover art shows a missile, the world, and a mathematical grid in an abstract freestanding relationship with one another. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z The author of a controversial mathematical treatise, “A Fundamental Critique of the Einstein Space-Time Continuum,” Dr. LeNormand is something of a crank. ‘The Rim of Morning’ review: Two supernatural novels by William Sloane 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z They’re able to focus on these musical concepts that are mathematical, and maybe they don’t succeed in math class, but they’re learning the same math concepts doing what they love to do. Manny Pacquiao loses his crown 2012-05-16T18:50:00Z But where those artists depicted flowers, animals and Buddhist saints, Stacks conjures scientific and mathematical principles. Review | In the galleries: Drawing as meditation 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z The name PYE is a phonetic rendering of the symbol Pi, which has no end in mathematical theory, and also sounds like Chinese for “style” or “philosophy.” Creating the Perfect White Shirt 2013-01-13T18:30:18Z In his acrylics on canvas, Seattle artist Michael Schultheis, a former software writer for Microsoft, scatters orderly mathematical formulae among swirling rings and voids of color. 4 art exhibitions to see at Seattle-area galleries in December 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Ms. Bartlett was an unrepentant maverick who started out as a fringe member of the post-Minimalist generation, Conceptual Art Division, devising mathematical or geometric systems that she need only execute, without further aesthetic decisions. Jennifer Bartlett, Conceptual Painter on a Vast Scale, Dies at 81 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z "Goldberg" blended humor, mathematical precision and exquisite beauty in a highly varied package — and finally let Haim realize a longstanding dream of performing. The stop-start career of Seattle choreographer Mark Haim 2012-03-21T21:35:03Z In the first, a Greek mathematical genius-turned-banker relates his financial and sexual exploits. Review | What it might feel like to live in a high-tech surveillance state 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z In Week 1301 we asked for Fibs, poems whose syllables per line follow the mathematical Fibonacci sequence of 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. Style Invitational Week 1305: Hits and Googles 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The challenge isn't merely to wager on a contestant's mathematical prowess but to figure out their behaviors and propensity for irrational risks. Why some see this "Alice in Borderland" breakout as a role model for survival 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z As the energy theorist and ecological founder, the mathematical polymath and insurance adjuster Alfred Lotka suggested, life seems more to optimize than maximize energy use. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z Jake, as a future astronomer, is fascinated by Einstein's Constant, "a mathematical sleight of hand" that may have bearing on the rate at which galaxies are accelerating "beyond the horizon of observation." 'The Constant Heart': Beware the devotion of a complicated woman 2012-09-19T21:10:09Z This is the mathematical way to fiddle with the size of intervals between notes so that fixed-pitch instruments, particularly keyboards, can play in all 12 keys without retuning. What do microtones have to do with global warming? Two concerts offer an answer 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z With all his cross-references between symbols, cosmic diagrams and mathematical quandaries, it can be hard to tell whether Macari is being deeply earnest or, well, having us on. This week's new exhibitions 2011-03-19T00:06:46Z It was a fitting moment for an election that often seemed to be a campaign over the idea of mathematical knowability itself. Election Watch: Karl Rove Vs. the Arithmetic 2012-11-07T14:25:13Z The mathematical wit and musical timing here remind me less of the choreographers I’ve mentioned than of George Balanchine. Review: The Inspired Poetry of Gandini Juggling 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z |
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