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

Mohamed Omar told us how to count symmetries using a clever lemma.

From Scientific American • Feb. 16, 2019

Dr. Tanton also talked about how Sperner’s lemma can be used to prove the hairy ball theorem, famous largely because of its colorful name.

From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2018

The explanation suggested in Dr. Whitley Stokes’s note is “helma=hen lemma, this in this place.”

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Jenner, Henry