theorem
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A fundamental and powerful concept in probability is Bayes’s theorem, developed by the 18th-century statistician Thomas Bayes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 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
Proclus credits Pythagoras, for example, with discovering the theorem we now call Pythagoras’s theorem, and Menelaus the theorem that is the mathematical foundation for Ptolemaic astronomy.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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