How to Use theorem in a Sentence

theorem

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• Use these measurements to find the length of the sloped sides of the A-frame with the Pythagorean theorem (a² + b² = c²).
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Aug. 2023
• The linebacker corps alone bends the mind like the Pythagorean theorem.
  — Larry Holder, NOLA.com, 23 May 2017
• Someone proved the theorem for lengths of 1 and 2, then someone else proved it for 3.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2020
• If the conjecture could be proved true, so would the famed theorem.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
• Here, the polygon angle sum theorem is a good place to start.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Nov. 2020
• This was enough to prove the four color theorem, but getting there was not easy.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2017
• The theorem makes no claims as to which assumption is wrong.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2020
• The Blazers forced two turnovers, giving up none, but were unable to solve the Jayden Daniels theorem in a 41-10 loss to No.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 20 Nov. 2022
• Museum staffers counted the number of glow sticks on each side of the building to prove that the skyscraper conformed to the theorem.
  — Joshua A. Krisch, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2013
• For the past four decades, scientists have tested the boundaries of Bell’s theorem.
  — David Kaiser, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2017
• This idea is known as the no-cloning theorem, and the multiple outsiders seem to violate it.
  — Edgar Shaghoulian, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2022
• Then Ijjas found a bounce mechanism that evades the no-go theorem.
  — Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2018
• The exception came to be known as Fermat’s last theorem.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
• In our case, Bayes’s theorem suggests that a poll should shift our priors more the more plausible that poll’s result is.
  — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2023
• The four-color theorem is now widely accepted as a fact, but still a yearning lingers over it.
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 24 July 2023
• Researchers have used a 350-year-old theorem to better understand the strange nature of light.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
• In 1986 Andrew Wiles withdrew to his study for seven years to prove Fermat’s theorem.
  — Christoph Drösser, Scientific American, 8 June 2024
• Thankfully the Cold War ended without this theorem being tested and I, for one, would like to keep it that way.
  — Philip Bobbitt, Time, 20 Sep. 2017
• So the theorem can be stated: If more than two islands have an odd number of bridges, then the bridges problem has no solution.
  — Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2019
• No matter how obscure the theorem, Chachu can explain it.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• The economics of night trains, in Europe and elsewhere, rest on two basic theorems.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
• But while the theorem was found after Fermat's death, nobody ever found the proof and the problem went unsolved for centuries.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2017
• Pierre de Fermat has his name on one of the most famous theorems in mathematics.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• Check your measurements based on the Pythagorean theorem formula above and cut two angled 2x4 pieces for each front and back of the doghouse.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Aug. 2023
• Any theorem centered on the behavior of mass should have pretty much nothing to do with light, as light is massless.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
• But who was Pythagoras, the person behind the famous and useful theorem?
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2022
• This led him to a crucial result about the geometry of black holes, known as Hawking’s area theorem.
  — James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
• In a series of two papers in the 1990s, Ruzsa re-proved Freiman’s theorem with an elegant new argument.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
• Today Bayes’s theorem is used to test vaccines, map the cosmos and train machine-learning algorithms.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 16 July 2024
• The theorem was not about any particular theory of physics.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024