lemma
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In Schwartz’s solution to the Halpern-Weaver conjecture, the T-pattern lemma is a critical component.
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
We will first construct a subsidiary lemma that is very general and concerns any suboptimality due to misinformation.
From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Thomas Colignatus
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
If you learn only 800 of the most frequently-used lemmas in English, you'll be able to understand 75% of the language as it is spoken in normal life.
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
Above the glumes are two or more other bracts, the lemmas.
From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Henry Allan Gleason
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
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
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
