Mathematical vs Mathematizable - What's the difference?
mathematical | mathematizable |
Of, or relating to mathematics
*
* 1897 , (Thomas Hardy), (The Well-Beloved)
*
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=
, title= Possible but highly improbable
(chiefly, philosophy, and, science) Capable of being analyzed or described using mathematical concepts or notation.
* 1979 , Charles C. Lemert, “Language, Structure, and Measurement: Structuralist Semiotics and Sociology,” The American Journal of Sociology , vol. 84, no. 4, p. 944:
* 2009 , Helen Longino, “Perilous thoughts: comment on van Fraassen,” Philosophical Studies , vol. 143, no. 1, pages 25-32:?
As adjectives the difference between mathematical and mathematizable
is that mathematical is of, or relating to mathematics while mathematizable is (chiefly|philosophy|and|science) capable of being analyzed or described using mathematical concepts or notation.mathematical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Smaller and smaller she waned up the rigid mathematical road, still gazing at the soldier aloft, as Pierston gazed at her.
- Although Galileo had designed a pendulum clock, he never actually constructed one. The first pendulum clock was constructed by the Dutch physicist Christian Huygens (1629–1695) in 1657. He also developed the mathematical theory of the pendulum. Newton also studied the motion of a pendulum and experimented with pendulums made of different materials and of different lengths.
Sarah Glaz
Ode to Prime Numbers, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical' concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from ' mathematical patterns involving primes.}}
mathematizable
English
Alternative forms
* mathematisableAdjective
(en adjective)- Formalism seeks to correct this deficiency by translating verbal texts into formal, mathematizable lexicons which are then manipulated into general propositions.
- This gap was a challenge to develop mechanical, mathematizable , models of the particles and their interactions.