lemma

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When he resumed investigating the problem, he noticed a mistake in a “lemma”—an intermediate result—involving a “T-pattern” in his previous paper.

From Scientific American

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

Yoneda began explaining the lemma on the platform and continued it on the train before it departed the station.

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Many in eastern India take pride in the beauty of the winglike extensions of the sterile lemma in Moynatundi and Ramigali rice.

From Scientific American

Dr. Tanton also talked about how Sperner’s lemma can be used to prove the hairy ball theorem, famous largely because of its colorful name.

From Scientific American