axioms

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But the math professor who’s now working for a math startup did share one of his own axioms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Their mathematics and geometry, built on logical proofs from axioms, remain eternal.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2025

One of the key axioms of politics in our, and any other, era is that nothing lasts forever.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2025

“One of the axioms of the system of international relations is that such a system is intrinsically anarchic.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2023

The new science often presented itself as a system of axioms and demonstrations, in Galileo’s Two New Sciences for example, or Newton’s Principia, but it was always grounded in facts and, less surely, in analogies.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton