mathematize
verb (used with object)
to reduce to a mathematical formula or problem; regard in purely mathematical terms.
mathematization
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a word derived from
mathematize.
Example Sentences
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The theme repeats throughout the history of science; Fleming mulling over unexplained bacterial genocide, Shannon obsessed with the mathematization of information transfer, Purcell investigating the behavior of atoms in magnetic fields.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 12, 2013
I prefer the phrase ‘the mathematization of the world’ rather than ‘of nature’ because ‘nature’ seems to me to imply that biology is involved, rather than just physics.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The full mathematization of perspective is combined with a hint of the impossibility of a purely mathematical world.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The mathematization of the sublunary world begins not with Galileo but with Alberti, not in the seventeenth century but in the fifteenth.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
My argument so far is that the seventeenth-century mathematization of the world was long in preparation.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
