lemma
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Showing that they do was the first part of proving the lemma, however.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 12, 2023
A false lemma is a false premise, or step in the reasoning process.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Dr. Tanton chose Sperner’s lemma, which is related to the Brouwer fixed-point theorem that both Francis Su and Holly Krieger talked about on their episodes of the podcast.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 29, 2018
You’ll have to listen to the episode to hear why this opulent meringue concoction is the perfect accompaniment to Sperner’s lemma.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 29, 2018
In the axil of each lemma, and usually concealed by it, is a smaller bract, the palea, and between the lemma and the palea is a single flower.
From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Henry Allan Gleason
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
The allusions to darkness blend in with lemmas about well-being and are celebrated in that indistinguishably supportive you-go-girl argot.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2020
These 800 lemmas are a lot more valuable than other words, simply because they're used far more often.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2018
Unfortunately, mathematicians have done a good job of smothering the beauty beneath formal definitions, theorems, lemmas, and corollaries that dot every ‘i’ but never tell you what they’re spelling out.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 6, 2012
The number of flowers in a spikelet is therefore normally equal to the number of lemmas.
From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Henry Allan Gleason
A fourth arrangement collected the glosses according to the first two letters of the lemmata, as in the Corpus Glossary and in the still earlier Cod.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
The third operation collected all the accessible glosses in alphabetical order, in the first instance according to the first letters of the lemmata.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
If they enclose Latin words, they indicate the lemmata of Anglo-Saxon words in glosses or glossaries etc., or the Latin equivalent of such words in the Latin texts from which they are translated.
From A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall
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