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theorem

[thee-er-uhm, theer-uhm] / ˈθi ər əm, ˈθɪər əm /


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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

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

By applying advanced mathematical principles, including Gödel's incompleteness theorem, they proved that any consistent and complete model of existence requires what they call "non-algorithmic understanding."

From Science Daily Nov. 10, 2025

The Bell theorem refers to how entangled electrons are predicted by quantum mechanics, making them non-local — often referred to as “spooky action at a distance.”

From Salon Nov. 13, 2024

However, one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

“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

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

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

Even the 2,500-year-old Greek idea of an axiomatic geometry—a few self-evident axioms being assumed, and from them the theorems being derived by logic alone—is not being effectively taught in secondary school.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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