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theorem

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB prove ▪ To help prove this theorem we shall need to call upon the following result, which is known as the Division Algorithm. ▪ I could prove theorem after theorem in linear algebra. ▪ That is, S is empty, and this proves ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from Middle French théorème (16c.) and directly from Late Latin theorema , from Greek theorema "spectacle, sight," in Euclid "proposition to be proved," literally "that which is looked at," from theorein "to look at, behold" (see theory ).

Usage examples of theorem.

So in the theorem of the Parallelogram of Velocities we have a strictly geometrical theorem, whose content is in the narrowest sense kinematic.

Kepler-Newton case on the very lines of our treatment of the two parallelogram theorems.

In this assertion we encounter a misconception exactly like the one in the statement that the theorem of the parallelogram of forces follows by logical necessity from the theorem of the parallelogram of velocities.

The Tycho and Dov Danladi, Soli too-they struggled all their lives to prove the Great Theorem.

The same sort of computer program that plays checkers can also be made to solve theorems on inequalities such as that pictured here, where one is asked to prove that the angle ACE is less than ABE.

Any such argument claims to provide a counterexample to their general theorem, and if one such counterexample is true the general theorem must be false.

The edicts of the Mull therefore rest not so much upon exigencies of the moment as upon fundamental theorems.

Our device will verify some of the most important theorems of our, and your, mathematics, simply by a direct inspection of cases, all the way to infinity.

In dock areas I found the packing houses, seeking to investigate perspectives pure as theorems, the self-mastery of these concrete structures, invulnerable to melancholy.

And yet, Holmes went on to explain, this same man was immune to suspicion, a respected mathematics professor in fact, and the celebrated author of a brilliant treatise on the binomial theorem as well as of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book of rarefied scientific scholarship much ahead of its time.

He kept the name as a convenience and, under it, published two treatises, on the binomial theorem and small planetary bodies, which drew on future knowledge.

I want him to yadder childishly to me about the binomial theorem after breakfast.

Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is perfect, save it be a mathematical theorem.

All I did was take advantage of a cautionary theorem in Advanced Symbolic Logic: The apparency of an answer can be mistaken for the answer.

He was the first to prove geometric theorems of the sort codified by Euclid three centuries later - for example, the proposition that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal.