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an idea or statement that can be proved from other ideas or statements
Her theorem was based on years studying the laws of physics.
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Turing’s proof of the theorem is scrawled over two sheets.
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IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2025
So somebody might try to construct a mathematical theorem and then hundreds or even thousands of years later, somebody else finishes it off.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 5 Mar. 2025
Pythagoras' theorem is famously brief and everybody can understand it.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
Delilah was in effect an application of a bandwidth theorem that today is known as the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2025
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IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2025
So somebody might try to construct a mathematical theorem and then hundreds or even thousands of years later, somebody else finishes it off.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 5 Mar. 2025
Pythagoras' theorem is famously brief and everybody can understand it.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
Delilah was in effect an application of a bandwidth theorem that today is known as the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2025
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“Theorem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/theorem. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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