Erect means build or upright. If you erect a house, you build it. If you stand erect, you hold your body as tall as possible.
A mathematical model is a description of a system using mathematical concepts and language.The process of building a mathematical model is termed mathematical modeling.Mathematical models are used in the natural sciences (such as physics, biology, earth science, meteorology) and engineering disciplines (e.g. computer science, artificial intelligence). mathematical model is a description of a system using mathematical concepts and language.
All told, computer graphics span a lot of mathematics because the holy grail of graphics is to simulate all of physical reality (light, fluids, collisions), as fast as possible (CS algorithms and data structures).