How to Use mathematical in a Sentence

mathematical

adjective
  • The team has only a mathematical chance of making the play-offs.
  • They recorded the changes with mathematical precision.
  • So what do the mathematical odds look like?
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 12 June 2026
  • Curves are also just a first foothold on the mathematical world of shapes carved out by equations.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Cats had a mathematical though miniscule chance at a wild card spot before this; no more.
    — Greg Cote april 5, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
  • There are mathematical models that suggest that is a way to do that.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 26 May 2021
  • But the outcome felt as true to me as a mathematical equation.
    — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2022
  • At least, that’s the idea in the mathematical world of chaos theory.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 25 Jan. 2021
  • The new finding, by contrast, has the force of a mathematical proof.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2024
  • The first part is the bedrock deep beneath the tower, which is made of hard mathematical problems.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 25 July 2025
  • There’s no mathematical proof of that.
    — Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Among them was the mathematical great David Hilbert.
    — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The third, however, can be viewed through a mathematical lens.
    — quantamagazine.org, 26 Jan. 2021
  • The team wanted to home in on the mathematical rules that conjure the most common coral structures.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Because Havens is self-taught, there are big gaps in his mathematical knowledge.
    — Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Bits and pieces sprawling off the edge of a canvas lead to a mathematical asymmetry.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
  • What are the problems that stand in the way of training a mathematical AI?
    — Christoph Drösser, Scientific American, 8 June 2024
  • Then the software must store each part of the mathematical phrase as a separate variable that can be acted on.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2020
  • There is a very real mathematical reason to beat Paraguay.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 12 June 2026
  • To that point, the Aztecs still had a mathematical chance of winning the MW.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2021
  • In the mid-nineties, Wall Street was emerging as a place where mathematical minds could excel.
    — The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2021
  • But that’s a mathematical average, and the super-rich drive the number way up.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 20 Jan. 2026
  • And Nicole is so good about showing that in a mathematical, technical way.
    — Margy Rochlin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Their work joins a handful of other trigonometric proofs that were added to the mathematical archives over the years.
    — Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The process takes weeks and dozens of trials to perfect by tweaking the mathematical formula each time.
    — Alexander Freeling, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Buehler and his lab then developed mathematical tools to automate the process and further study the webs.
    — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
  • But these experiments were not the same as mathematical proof.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Some see it as an absurd conclusion that points to a flaw in the rules of mathematical reasoning that enable it.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Aug. 2021
  • To find out, Gore and his colleagues reached for one of the first mathematical models in ecology.
    — Gabriel Popkin, Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2025
  • Last May, Albrecht asked one agent to solve a tricky mathematical puzzle.
    — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023

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