lemma

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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

Dr. Tanton paired Sperner’s lemma with his Aussie roots in the dessert pavlova.

From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2018

Once a lemma frequency dictionary was in place for each drug, this information was fed into Wordle to generate the detailed visualizations for each part of speech.

From Scientific American • Nov. 26, 2012

When no manuscripts are specified for the lemma in an entry, the lemma is the reading for those manuscripts not otherwise specified.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear