adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a legal/mathematical/marketing etc concept
▪ Democracy is a very important political concept.
a mathematical equation
▪ a set of mathematical equations
mathematical ability
▪ These students have a higher level of mathematical ability.
mathematical calculations
▪ pages of mathematical calculations
musical/comic/mathematical etc genius
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ability
▪ After all, musical talent is often considered highly linked to mathematical ability, except when discussing black performers.
▪ They have greater verbal and lesser spatial and mathematical ability, and less self-confidence and competitiveness.
▪ This choice indicates the general direction of their interests, but it must be backed by the appropriate mathematical ability.
analysis
▪ No amount of theologizing could be a substitute for mathematical analysis.
▪ With clarity and with mathematical analysis, he showed how such networks could work and what they could do.
▪ This experimental solution has since been confirmed by a purely mathematical analysis carried out by H. L. Cox.
▪ One the other hand abstract mathematical analysis and the experimental laboratory do not provide a direct channel to the subject studied.
▪ The mathematical analysis is somewhat complicated.
▪ Econometrics Econometrics is the science of mathematical analysis of economic phenomena.
calculation
▪ However, it may give rise to the necessity for a fairly sophisticated mathematical calculation if a conversion table is not published.
▪ The mathematical calculations are not easy, but the concepts are relatively familiar.
▪ By means of tapping his foot the horse could perform mathematical calculations, and solve problems of musical harmony.
▪ Computers are widely used because cost estimating may involve complex mathematical calculations and require advanced mathematical techniques.
▪ Needing to do something, anything, he rapidly tapped the spoon against the saucer as though preoccupied with a mathematical calculation.
certainty
▪ We can possess a mathematical certainty that two and two make four, but this rarely matters to us.
concept
▪ Imaginary time may sound like something out of science fiction, but it is a well-defined mathematical concept.
▪ We know that children develop mathematical concepts through manipulating objects and talking about what they are doing.
▪ Ideas leading towards mathematical concepts can be gained from all the toys and apparatus.
▪ Assessing the extent to which certain important mathematical concepts are not understood by the adult population and devising corrective measures.
▪ To begin with, geometry has more value than simply as a means of acquiring a grasp of mathematical concepts.
▪ Take, for example, the child who is able to deal with mathematical concepts at a very early age.
equation
▪ Solving all the necessary mathematical equations on paper is next to impossible.
▪ That world evolves in a clear and deterministic way, being governed by precisely formulated mathematical equations.
▪ Cowan set up a mathematical equation that represented the neural activity, and built lateral inhibition into it.
▪ He often walks through entire discussions performing mathematical equations without the aid of a calculator.
▪ You can use this function to accept and evaluate an expression, such as a mathematical equation, whilst the program is running.
▪ Another use would be in a graph plotting program to accept the mathematical equation you wished to plot.
▪ In arguing for pointillism, he quoted the scientific treatises consulted by Seurat and even printed mathematical equations.
▪ His mind reeling with the difficult mathematical equations, he suddenly heard a soft knocking at the door.
experience
▪ The mathematical experiences involved may be explored in talk with the teacher afterwards.
▪ Once again, the kind of play and the extent of mathematical experience which it includes will inevitably vary.
▪ Opportunity for mathematical experience and the development of mathematical thinking might seem unlikely to occur readily in the Home Corner.
▪ The provision of the equipment does not ensure the mathematical experience, but can create opportunity for it.
▪ Possible mathematical experiences are given for activities involving each item.
▪ But on many occasions children gain mathematical experience without any intervention by an adult.
form
▪ The skills pupils need are the strategies of problem solving; interpreting mathematical forms and statements; representing situations mathematically.
▪ For my own part, I am very happy to accept the original mathematical form of the Church-Turing Thesis.
▪ It has been simply expressed in a mathematical form.
formula
▪ As with index-linked rents, any mathematical formula should be carefully checked by calculator or computer.
▪ Luther met Predestination as revealed truth: Calvin treated it as a mathematical formula and deduced the results.
▪ But political arrangements can not correspond to some tidy mathematical formula.
▪ Rabin's method uses a stream of randomly generated characters that can be decoded with a mathematical formula.
▪ These assumptions and the mathematical formula used to calculate the volume have been described and validated by Everson and colleagues.
▪ Census takers then turn the difference into a mathematical formula and apply it to the city as a whole.
▪ We feed the figures into a mathematical formula and the formula then takes over and does the processing for us.
function
▪ A mathematical function grades how different these suggestions are from the misspelling, and the nearest few are suggested.
▪ Group survival through irrigation let to the development of higher mathematical functions and constructional techniques associated with the science of hydraulic engineering.
▪ Apart from playing around with shaped blocks or mathematical functions, synthesis tries to achieve something.
genius
▪ I decide that he is a latent mathematical genius.
▪ Many of the individuals in these groups have dazzling individual skills mathematical genius is often one.
▪ Stephen Wolfram, a mathematical genius who did pioneering work on the varieties of computer algorithms agrees.
idea
▪ Some of the mathematical ideas which can be experienced with the most general apparatus are suggested here.
▪ Moreover, the specific Newtonian scheme has given rise to a remarkable body of mathematical ideas known as classical mechanics.
▪ Many of the mathematical ideas connected with them are described in chapter 5 Water.
▪ The concept lay outside the normal mathematical ideas of the time.
▪ Often their comments or explanations involve mathematical ideas like height weight, shape or space.
▪ New mathematical ideas are set firmly in a known context.
▪ Our experience of electronic technology prepares us to accept the idea that unconscious machinery can behave as if it understands complex mathematical ideas.
▪ The discussion which follows may involve comparison and the use of various mathematical ideas.
knowledge
▪ Since the Antichrist would use mathematical knowledge in exercising malignant power, it was vital for the Church to be prepared.
▪ Effective use of Logo requires the development of mathematical knowledge such as angle, rotation and distance.
▪ Response to any task, then, may not provide a valid description of mathematical knowledge.
model
▪ The theory always came first, put forward from the desire to have an elegant and consistent mathematical model.
▪ An associated mathematical model { 81 } can reproduce the periodic but not the chaotic regime.
▪ One could accept the mathematical models of Copernican astronomy without even considering whether the earth really moves.
▪ This is a mathematical model designed to determine the optimal amount of inventory that a firm should carry.
▪ Of course, aircraft were flying long before the development of powerful mathematical models.
▪ The mathematical models of the glycolytic pathway take the form of ordinary nonlinear differential equations.
▪ Linear, additive models are easier to work with than more complex mathematical models.
▪ Fisher s intuition was fed into mathematical models and emerged intact.
modelling
▪ It has improved graphics features too, for abstract mathematical modelling, and new selectable fonts.
▪ Without mathematical modelling, the problem would not have been discovered until the complete antenna subsystem had been built and tested.
▪ No amount of mathematical modelling can produce the answers to these questions - even at a cost of £550 000.
▪ For many applications, mathematical modelling is actually proving preferable to physical experimentation.
▪ The creation of apparently real, solid objects by means of detailed mathematical modelling.
operation
▪ The test repeats a large number of operations that, as far as possible, do not involve any mathematical operations.
▪ You can sort these tables and even perform mathematical operations on them.
▪ Integer performance shows up in all software, whereas floating point performance is primarily reflected in specialized mathematical operations.
▪ It can be an intriguing puzzle for them to decide, of some mathematical operation, whether or not it is computable.
problem
▪ I started to find great relaxation in playing with mathematical problems and puzzles.
▪ In a similar way it is possible to phrase many other unsolved mathematical problems in terms of the Turing machine halting problem.
▪ It was a thriving concern when I took over, so it was a mathematical problem, really.
▪ They spend so much time thinking about mathematical problems that they do not notice what is happening around them.
proof
▪ A mathematical proof about some property of a triangle does not, Gassendi thinks, give demonstrative understanding of its cause.
▪ So many mathematical proofs are like that.
▪ In the absence of mathematical proofs of security, nothing builds confidence in a cryptosystem like sustained attempts to crack it.
skill
▪ We plan to establish ourselves as the national point of contact for industry to reach mathematical skills in these areas.
▪ The phenomenal success of his efforts owed much to his supreme mathematical skills and to his equally superb physical insights.
▪ It assumes no previous technical knowledge of computer communications or specialist mathematical skills.
▪ To what are such mathematical skills relevant?
▪ The Topic Criteria provide a comprehensive list of mathematical skills and processes.
▪ Whilst these articles may make slight demands upon your mathematical skills, be assured that your indulgence will bring its own reward.
▪ An historical, multicultural perspective, such as that employed by Hughes, may help children use and develop more versatile mathematical skills.
▪ Industrial development and economic progress increasingly depend upon computing and applied mathematical skills and expertise, and on today's information technology.
statement
▪ We must suppose that there is some alphabet of symbols in terms of which our mathematical statements are to be expressed.
structure
▪ Like many ancient languages, it has a highly logical, mathematical structure.
▪ Whichever mathematician or computer buff chooses to examine the set, approximations to the same fundamental mathematical structure will be found.
▪ First, the mathematical thinking that is prompted in an individual depends on context as well as underlying mathematical structure.
▪ Every new scientific demonstration of the precision of the mathematical structure needed to produce conscious life is evidence of design.
▪ We shall need to take a glimpse at the mathematical structure of a Hilbert space.
▪ The problems that his paradoxes raise concerning the mathematical structure of space and time are still being discussed today.
system
▪ Effective measurement requires detailed knowledge of the properties of phenomena which are to be reflected or mapped on to some mathematical system.
technique
▪ Quantifiable problems can be resolved by mathematical techniques, to produce a quantifiable decision.
▪ Computers are widely used because cost estimating may involve complex mathematical calculations and require advanced mathematical techniques.
▪ The details of the mathematical technique don't matter.
▪ Mackenzie is also looking at other mathematical techniques for analysing and synthesising waveforms.
▪ To answer this question required new mathematical techniques.
▪ But it should stimulate the further application of those mathematical techniques.
▪ The mathematical techniques of management science are used to ensure the efficient conduct of operations.
theory
▪ A mathematical theory of statistical predictors and how to assess their accuracy has been developed by the principal investigator and others.
▪ Von Neumann invented a mathematical theory of games.
▪ Within weeks he had decided that some crucial stress calculations were so complex that mathematical theory alone could not provide answers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ mathematical calculations
▪ a mathematical formula
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An associated mathematical model { 81 } can reproduce the periodic but not the chaotic regime.
▪ Consequently, this view is frequently referred to as mathematical Platonism.
▪ I believed their arguments on physical grounds, but I did not like the mathematical way in which they calculated the emission.
▪ Luther met Predestination as revealed truth: Calvin treated it as a mathematical formula and deduced the results.
▪ Many of the mathematical ideas connected with them are described in chapter 5 Water.
▪ Possibly not, but that is the rigorous mathematical answer to your question.
▪ The mathematical experiences involved may be explored in talk with the teacher afterwards.
▪ This is likely to result in over-simple mathematical descriptions with poor correlations.