mathematical
Some of his conclusions are mathematically impossible.
Sam's solution was mathematically correct, but it didn't make sense as a real-life solution.
He has an engineering degree and tends to think mathematically, not emotionally.

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biomathematics
calculus
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catastrophe theory
derivative
differentiate
differentiation
Euclidean
game theory
geometric
maths
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mathematically
Since this form of dissipation is special mathematically (forming a group), we argue it must be special physically too.
While mathematically appealing, the uniqueness of solutions in this approach is still an open question.
Many theories have been formulated mathematically in fields which were earlier thought to be outside the scope of mathematical reasoning.
In a game theory model, the outcome of the model can be represented as a set of mathematically specified equilibria.
The same approach evidently applies to mathematically equivalent problems of flows through porous media.
The model assumes that, initially, both aphids and natural enemies coexist at low densities (mathematically, at a stable equilibrium).
In other words, the result concerning the eectiveness of the relevance feedback process can be mathematically proven.
It is worth pointing out that our results even apply to such mathematically unwieldy structures as term models for full-scale programming languages.
A household-farm model is used as a way to mathematically represent the agents who are both producers and consumers of agricultural goods.
One is then obliged to assume "constitutive factors" instead of "residual factors" and accordingly to proceed to the application of procedures that are mathematically different.
Although this is a mathematically convenient assumption, the way humans look at the world does not always conform to it.
Mathematically, our limit o results were based on methods and techniques from the theory of state-dependent queuing networks.
The other approach is reductionist, isolating the component structures of a deformed body in such a way that they can be idealized and modelled mathematically.
The spikes are, mathematically speaking, identical to a set of ordered latent classes with fixed relative locations and size.
Each technique is placed within a classification and is justified and explained mathematically.
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