mathematical statement

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Gödel’s “incompleteness theorem,” which he presented in 1930, when he was 24, upended his profession’s assumption that mathematics should be able to prove a mathematical statement that is true.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2021

Because once you prove a mathematical statement, it just is true forever, or so I thought.

From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2020

This is a mathematical statement of Henry’s law: The quantity of an ideal gas that dissolves in a definite volume of liquid is directly proportional to the pressure of the gas.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

This chapter has been created in an informal, intuitive fashion, but this is not always enough if we need to prove a mathematical statement involving limits.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

I did not understand the mathematical statement, but he put it in common-sense terms, which I apprehended perfectly, though I never could repeat them.

From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by Stillman, William James