mathematization

math·e·ma·tize

 (măth′ə-mə-tīz′)
tr.v. math·e·ma·tized, math·e·ma·tiz·ing, math·e·ma·tiz·es
To treat or regard mathematically.

math′e·ma·ti·za′tion (-tĭ-zā′shən) n.
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mathematization

(ˌmæθɪmətaɪˈzeɪʃən) or

mathematisation

n
(Mathematics) the act of interpreting or expressing mathematically, or the state of being considered or explained mathematically
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Allowing key historical questions to be seen from a plurality of angles might offer an alternative to the stranglehold of academic factionalism; and keeping the human, lay element in the equation might soothe the spirits of historians concerned with the loss of the "humanistic" spirit in the throng of mathematization and the further detachment of academia from the concerns of the broader society.
We shall focus on those arguments and disregard other aspects of the mathematization of economics.
(23) For considerations concerning the benefits and costs of mathematization with regard to Austrian economics see Hudik (2014).
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With each subsequent series of technical cutting edge, the logic has gone through major alterations in swiftness and extent (Popescu, 2016a, b; 2015), with an additional stress on mechanisms of abstraction, formalization, and mathematization that empower and recompense independent digital network systems.
flexible, relationship dimension, flexible, flexible and model of flexible degree, the existence of, can describe the relationship between the unity of opposites and contradictions of transformation, provides mathematization of dialectical logic symbolic.
The Language of Nature: Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century
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