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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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Recent Examples of theorems
This is the real content of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems.
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Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2026
Your proof rests on two famous sets of premises—Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, which found that every mathematical system will have statements that can never be proven, and Turing’s undecidability result for the halting problem, which found that some problems are inherently unsolvable.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2026
This large-scale appropriation of the resources that knowledge workers use to make a living – skills, styles, theorems, jokes, recipes – has a historical parallel.
—Will Glovinsky, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
In just the past few months, the best publicly available models have begun generating valid proofs for minor theorems of actual use for working mathematicians.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2026
In fact, the Logic Theorist proved 38 of the first 52 theorems in a famous mathematical text, Alfred Whitehead and Bertrand Russell’s Principia Mathematica.
—Big Think, 4 Nov. 2025
Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2026
Your proof rests on two famous sets of premises—Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, which found that every mathematical system will have statements that can never be proven, and Turing’s undecidability result for the halting problem, which found that some problems are inherently unsolvable.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2026
This large-scale appropriation of the resources that knowledge workers use to make a living – skills, styles, theorems, jokes, recipes – has a historical parallel.
—Will Glovinsky, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
In just the past few months, the best publicly available models have begun generating valid proofs for minor theorems of actual use for working mathematicians.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2026
In fact, the Logic Theorist proved 38 of the first 52 theorems in a famous mathematical text, Alfred Whitehead and Bertrand Russell’s Principia Mathematica.
—Big Think, 4 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for theorems
Noun
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There are a lot of theories about Machado’s struggles.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2026
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Both theories are plausible, Cooper agreed.—
Sneha Dhandapani,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
Noun
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There are three primary hypotheses for how birds might sense Earth’s geomagnetic field.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 May 2026
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If more evidence shows GLP-1 drugs are found to reduce the chance of cancer progressing, the researchers also want to figure out why and have many possible hypotheses at the moment, including the drug changing the immune system, acting directly on tumor cells and reducing inflammation.—
Victoria Forster,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026
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“Theorems.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/theorems. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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