mathematical

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None of this endangers the mathematical theory of relativity or the empirical science that confirms it.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

By defining these perceptual attributes more rigorously, the researchers have supplied a missing piece in Schrödinger's long standing vision for a closed mathematical model of color.

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

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

Indeed, the Pythagoreans had tried to squelch another troublesome mathematical concept—the irrational.

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