mathematize
Americanverb (used with object)
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But these arguments tend to mathematize humans, overlooking our potential as problem-solving primates.
From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2022
It proved that one could mathematize language so that computer programs could combine words in ways that the Eureka never could.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2017
And maybe the ISU could further refine and mathematize the scoring system to edit out ultra-subjective and intangible components like “poise” and “energy” and “waving pluckily to the crowd while skating backward” altogether.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2014
Our confirming observations, carefully mathematized, did not worry me.
From Nature ● Mar. 7, 2017
“Ah. Of course. The point about mathematizing hypotheses was made by Kant. It is one of the programs of the Vienna Circle logical positivists.”
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
Nevertheless, the increasing mathematizing of science, including his own branch of it, gave him great concern, for he could not regard it as helpful in the true progress of man's understanding of nature.
From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst
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