10 sentences with 'mathematical'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mathematical and other words derived from it.
• « A well-known example of this was in Greek architecture, with the use of a mathematical concept known as the 'golden ratio' (also known as the 'golden number') which, when applied to construction, creates forms that the Greeks, and many others later, believed were inherently pleasing to the eye. »
• « Six years after the book "The Dialogue" was put on the Index of banned books, Galileo published another work, Two New Sciences of Motion and Mechanics, which provided a theory and mathematical formulae of inertia and aspects of gravity. »
• « The whole system of physics was mapped out and described in precise and exact mathematical formulae in Newton's Mathematical Principles. »
• « Descartes followed a series of logical "proofs" of this existence, with thought being the "proof" that God himself existed, as the original source of thought. This was a philosophical application not only of the new mechanical and mathematical perspective, but of deductive reasoning. »
• « In 1970, researchers made the first detailed mathematical calculations of flock aerodynamics; they estimated that a bird can fly up to 70 per cent further if it joins a V-formation and is positioned in the updrafts generated by the wings of its neighbours. »
• « In the computer game, the movements were governed by a set of mathematical rules, and the bird researcher began to wonder if the same was true of flocks. »
• « Ulf Grenander, a specialist in applied mathematics, translated these principles into mathematical rules. With the resulting equations, a computer program was written. »
• « -The quantity you speak of is not correct," he said, objecting to one of Professor Hoyle's mathematical calculations. »