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theorem

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


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It may be hard to think of Nixon as a moral president or to reduce Reagan to such a simplistic theorem, but Mr. Westad’s point is vitally true in the sense that he means it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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

Known as the "infinite monkey theorem", the mathematical thought-experiment has long been used to explain the principles of probability and randomness.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2024

He and Qin found, however, that this is not correct because the theorem does not take into account, mathematically, that photon electric fields can rotate.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

When she looked, he pointed to a page with the Pythagorean theorem.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

"Drawing on mathematical theorems related to incompleteness and indefinability, we demonstrate that a fully consistent and complete description of reality cannot be achieved through computation alone," explains Dr. Faizal.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2025

“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

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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