lemma
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A false lemma is a false premise, or step in the reasoning process.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
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
Sperner’s lemma is sort of a discrete version of that continuous theorem.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 29, 2018
Dr. Tanton explained how you can see the lemma for yourself.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 29, 2018
Archimedes says further that the theorem that spheres are in the triplicate ratio of their diameters was proved by means of the same lemma.
From Archimedes Men of Science by Thomas Little Heath
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
Obviously, we should have here, neither a simple nor pure science, but only a compilation of natural-philosophical and economic lemmas.
From Principles Of Political Economy by John J. (John Joseph) Lalor
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
