theorem
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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
He or his disciples discovered the Pythagorean theorem: the sum of the squares of the shorter sides of a right triangle equals the square of the longer side.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
"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
The halting problem is a direct application of mathematician Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, which state that not all mathematical statements can be proved.
From Scientific American ● May 23, 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
And what did it mean that number 2 pencils, conjugations without context, Pythagorean theorems, handshakes, and head nods were the difference between life and death, were the curtains drawing down between the world and me?
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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