theorem
noun
a theoretical proposition, statement, or formula embodying something to be proved from other propositions or formulas.
theorems
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pluralof theorem.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"Drawing on mathematical theorems related to incompleteness and indefinability, we demonstrate that a fully consistent and complete description of reality cannot be achieved through computation alone," explains Dr. Faizal.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2025
“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
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
But, as indicated above, the real importance of the singularity theorems was that they showed that the gravitational field must become so strong that quantum gravitational effects could not be ignored.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
