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[thee-er-uhm, theer-uhm] / ˈθi ər əm, ˈθɪər əm /


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These included the most precise test of general relativity to date and confirmation of Stephen Hawking's black hole area theorem.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026

A fundamental and powerful concept in probability is Bayes’s theorem, developed by the 18th-century statistician Thomas Bayes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

AI can’t sit with a student after class and talk through a complex theorem until the child finally gets it.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 9, 2026

The Bell theorem refers to how entangled electrons are predicted by quantum mechanics, making them non-local — often referred to as “spooky action at a distance.”

From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2024

Here the theorem provides the theoretical support for the fact that the measurements of any quantity tend to follow a normal bell-shaped “error curve” centered on the true value of the quantity being measured.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

“He was a war hero and a Renaissance man that did math theorems while he was in Congress and who could recite Homer from memory,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

Participants worked through undergraduate-level mathematical theorems with the assistance of an LLM and were asked to rate each individual LLM response for correctness and helpfulness.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024

As a result, mathematicians tended to keep their discoveries to themselves, deploying their theorems, corollaries and lemmas only to win intellectual battles.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 24, 2023

Rambling conversations on aliens and math theorems, time travel and TED talks, contribute to an atmosphere in which everything feels unstable, not least the men’s sanity.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

I think about the theorems and the equations I will never have to do.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King


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