mathematicality
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mathematical + -ity.
Noun
[edit]mathematicality (uncountable) (rare)
- The state of being mathematical or involving mathematics.
- Synonyms: mathematicalness, mathematicity
- 2004, Harun Farocki, Harun Farocki: Working on the Sight-lines, Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, page 197:
- To conceive of a photographic image as a measuring device is to insist on the mathematicality, calculability, and finally the 'computability' of the image-world.
- 2007, Kevin Corrigan, John Douglas Turner, Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern, Brill Publishers, →ISBN, page 138:
- By way of analogy, it would in theory also be possible to postulate a concept of a science whose universality and mathematicality are relative only.
- Skill at mathematics; numeracy.
- 2006, Essays in Response to Bill Cosby's Comments about African American Failure, Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page VI:
- Many young Blacks suffer from numerophobia for cultural and historic reasons. The new world of the future is likely to require higher levels of mathematicality and a new numerophilia - a fascination with numbers.
- 2021 April 21, Jenna Weissman Joselit, “People of the Math Book”, in Tablet Magazine[1], archived from the original on 2022-12-15:
- Given what is often thought to be the "mathematicality" of the Jews, their collective capacity for numeracy, I suppose this makes me an outlier.