Tenenbaum's research aims to define and describe these cognitive tools, and build mathematical models to imitate them.

FORBES: The Human Computer

The statisticians and analysts who build mathematical models based on multiple polls and other data absolutely nailed this election.

FORBES: The Election is Over, and the Math Geeks Won.

We can build mathematical models to render a simplified description of, say, liquid in a vessel, but to completely describe it with mathematics would require an infinite number of variables.

FORBES: Computing Desire