How to Use mathematician in a Sentence
mathematician
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The mathematician pedaled away from the bunch, right at the start.
— Jason Gay, WSJ, 25 July 2021 -
The first star map can be traced back to the Greek astronomer and mathematician Hipparchus around 129 BC.
— Lucie Green, Wired, 15 Dec. 2021 -
There was even a trip to San Diego State to recruit a mathematician.
— Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2022 -
In the mid-nineteenth century, the mathematician George Boole heard the voice of God.
— Benjamín Labatut, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024 -
The process reminded me of the way that mathematicians talk about their research.
— Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023 -
The test is named for Alan Turing, the famed British mathematician, philosopher and wartime code breaker who proposed the test back in 1950.
— Cade Metz, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023 -
The Greek letter π began to be widely used by mathematicians in the 1700s.
— Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 13 Mar. 2023 -
The next mathematician who needed to use moments would have to solve the moment problem all over again.
— Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2023 -
Like mathematicians, physicists are known to cling to their chalk.
— Staff, Quartz, 4 Sep. 2024 -
But mathematicians want to know exactly how well Gauss’s guess holds up—and why.
— Byzack Savitsky, science.org, 29 July 2024 -
Bringing a 32-year-long quest to a close, mathematicians have discovered the ninth Dedekind number known as D(9).
— Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023 -
In the 1920s, mathematicians began wondering: What’s the worst shape to pack?
— Quanta Magazine, 28 June 2024 -
That was case for the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash.
— Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023 -
The question was first posed by Leo Moser, a Canadian mathematician, in the early 1960s.
— Anna Kramer, Quanta Magazine, 19 July 2023 -
At one point, the mathematician John von Neumann arrived at the lab bearing a long set of complex problems.
— David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023 -
It was called the Poincaré conjecture, after the French mathematician Henri Poincaré, who’d posed it in 1904.
— Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2021 -
The jokes about this mathematician’s name would never cease.
— Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022 -
The first calculation of pi was done by Archimedes, a legendary mathematician of the ancient world, in the centuries leading up to the common era.
— Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2024 -
For as much artistry as Jokic is said to incorporate to the game of basketball, his shot-making in Game 5 felt more like the work of a mathematician.
— Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 15 May 2024 -
Hastings even fired mathematician Neil Hunt, who was at Netflix from the very start, a close friend and one of the brains behind the company’s algorithms.
— Peter Biskind, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2023 -
Greg the engineer, and Bill the mathematician, came across Sallie Mead’s story in 2022.
— Erica Huang, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024 -
But no—not good enough for these fancy-pants mathematicians who need their own set of characters just to feel special.
— Eli Burnstein, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2023 -
As a result, mathematicians often turn to the complex numbers, which can be thought of as pairs of real numbers.
— Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023 -
For years, an Australian mathematician has been studying a 3,700-year-old tablet from the era of the ancient Babylonians.
— Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2021 -
But as a mathematician, Ullman knows better than most that numbers don’t always add up to truth.
— Adam Rogers, Wired, 22 June 2021 -
The mathematician, now 72 years old, has followed a similar approach to his own life.
— Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024 -
But what exactly is the algorithm — and what have ancient Babylon and Greek mathematicians got to do with it?
— Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2024 -
One of four children, his mother was a mathematician and his father a salesman.
— Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024 -
Silver is also careful to note that Google DeepMind won’t be putting human mathematicians out of jobs.
— Will Knight, WIRED, 25 July 2024 -
Artists, mathematicians, and architects alike have aspired to this perfect ratio for thousands of years.
— Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
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