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


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A mistaken theorem can work its way into flawed financial, medical or engineering systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

A key foundation for understanding why time seems to move in one direction is Boltzmann's H theorem, a central principle in statistical mechanics tied to the second law of thermodynamics.

From Science Daily ● May 3, 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

The theorem that online anonymity breeds rude behavior was commonplace well before Black’s parents paid Ark Music Factory a few thousand dollars to craft a song and music video for their daughter to record.

From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2026

“Would his theorem be true there as well?”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

“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

Participants worked through undergraduate-level mathematical theorems with the assistance of an LLM and were asked to rate each individual LLM response for correctness and helpfulness.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024

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

There are many such systems used in tournaments, and they’re as complicated as abstract mathematical theorems.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady


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