theorem
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A mistaken theorem can work its way into flawed financial, medical or engineering systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
A key foundation for understanding why time seems to move in one direction is Boltzmann's H theorem, a central principle in statistical mechanics tied to the second law of thermodynamics.
From Science Daily ● May 3, 2026
AI can’t sit with a student after class and talk through a complex theorem until the child finally gets it.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 9, 2026
The theorem that online anonymity breeds rude behavior was commonplace well before Black’s parents paid Ark Music Factory a few thousand dollars to craft a song and music video for their daughter to record.
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2026
That learning about the Pythagorean theorem and arpeggios and dissecting worms is the only thing that could keep her mind off it.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
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“He was a war hero and a Renaissance man that did math theorems while he was in Congress and who could recite Homer from memory,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
Participants worked through undergraduate-level mathematical theorems with the assistance of an LLM and were asked to rate each individual LLM response for correctness and helpfulness.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024
The halting problem is a direct application of mathematician Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, which state that not all mathematical statements can be proved.
From Scientific American ● May 23, 2023
Rambling conversations on aliens and math theorems, time travel and TED talks, contribute to an atmosphere in which everything feels unstable, not least the men’s sanity.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
However, what the singularity theorems really indicate is that the gravitational field becomes so strong that quantum gravitational effects become important: classical theory is no longer a good description of the universe.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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