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Origin of mathematical logic

First recorded in 1855–60

Words nearby mathematical logic

mat grass, math, mathematical, mathematical expectation, mathematical induction, mathematical logic, mathematical probability, mathematician, mathematics, mathematize, Mather

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How to use mathematical logic in a sentence

In the 1970s, he produced Fagin’s theorem, which characterized the class NP in terms of mathematical logic.
The 50-year-old problem that eludes theoretical computer science|Siobhan Roberts|October 27, 2021|MIT Technology Review
I had these amorphous ideas like wanting to investigate the way the mind works using mathematical logic.
A Prodigy Who Cracked Open the Cosmos|Claudia Dreifus|January 12, 2021|Quanta Magazine
Their logic: the sea-creature would come alive and drink up any remaining alcohol.
History's Craziest Hangover Cures|Justin Jones|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The birds will seek us out and they will use no logic we know.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Kim Novak's heavy legs were concealed and all logic left on the cutting room floor.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This came across in the Showtime Omit the Logic documentary—in which you were a commentator—and it comes across here.
How Richard Pryor Beat Bill Cosby and Transformed America|David Yaffe, Scott Saul|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It takes Sharp four hours to get into character: “I take joy in the mathematical, symmetrical precision and perfectness of Bach.”
The Brit Who Stormed Broadway|Tim Teeman|December 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A second main division of our schooling was mathematical instruction of a sort.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
You may say, in the case of Sikes and the peer, that the logic of the Determinist is sound, but ineffective: nothing comes of it.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
This truth is as old as Homer, and its proofs are as capable of demonstration as a mathematical axiom.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
Upon reflection, it is surprising how few subjects are capable of a mathematical demonstration.
Gospel Philosophy|J. H. Ward
There is not a mathematical line—length without breadth—in all the universe.
Gospel Philosophy|J. H. Ward

British Dictionary definitions for mathematical logic

mathematical logic

noun

symbolic logic, esp that branch concerned with the foundations of mathematics

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