mathematical

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That shift represents a major mathematical advance for visualization science.

From Science Daily • Jun. 7, 2026

The mathematical model they built to explain this behaviour wasn't new; it was the same one used to describe the spread of a forest fire or the propagation of an electrical signal through heart tissue.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

His approach relied on tensors, mathematical objects commonly used to describe quantities such as stress and deformation.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

In the mathematical study of symmetry, or group theory, one such number—important in string theory—is fittingly named “the monster group”: 808,017,424,794,512,875,886,459,904,961,710,757,005,754,368,000,000,000.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

They are simply mathematical constructs that make the mathematical operations in string theory work in the manner that they have to.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife