mathematical

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Using mathematical analysis, they tracked how the influence of each layer moves through the circuit.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

Based on projected earnings for the year ahead, the S&P 500’s P/E is 20, which, in a mathematical coincidence, is about 20% higher than the 20-year average—a premium, but not an excessive one.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Alongside the experimental work, the researchers developed mathematical models to better understand how different factors influence frying.

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2026

To make the journey work without the audiences seeing each other, Broucke used a mathematical application called a Caesar cipher, created by the Roman general to send encrypted messages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

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.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton