Why should we rely on mathematical abstractions to understand the world?

But did the mathematical abstraction come from the word for fist, or, as some linguists have proposed, was it the other way around?

Nevertheless, they are useful as mathematical abstractions for defining color spaces.

It is the material source for the mathematical abstraction of a "random variable".

It was a mathematical abstraction, and held for me then as much interest as such an item should.

Now I had lost myself in mathematical abstractions and had to backtrack.

She much preferred talking about real data, not more mathematical abstractions.

Under this was a long column of mathematical abstractions.

They were almost like mathematical abstractions of the human body, with no two of them quite alike.

You will need a strong desire to use research to solve real problems rather than unrealistic mathematical abstractions.