mathematical

• He laughed at science and never had a good word for a mathematical or science master, but there was nothing spiteful or malignant in anything he said against them; or indeed against anybody The romances that impressed him most when at school were Disraeli's novels. —  Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
• When he afterwards called her cold and mathematical, and over-pious, and so forth, it was when public opinion had gone against him, and when he had discovered that her fidelity and mercy, her silence and magnanimity, might be relied on, so that he was at full liberty to make his part good, as far as she was concerned. —  Lady Byron Vindicated
• His plans were mathematical, his soul sublime and his purpose eternal victory! —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Shakspere, by Colonel John A. Joyce
• His considerations were almost entirely mathematical, his only invasion into physics being in defence of the “moving earth” against the stock objection that if the earth moved, loose objects would fly off, and towers fall. —  Kepler
• His gifts were arithmetical and mathematical, and whenever he had a quarter of an hour to spare he was sure to take a piece of paper and cover it all over with figures. —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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