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

Which means that while mathematically true, the theorem is "misleading", they say.

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

And that is when I realize that Tiny Cooper cannot pick his nose, countering the second part of my dad's theorem.

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan