How to Use theorem in a Sentence

theorem

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Her thinking had become choked — a mere testing of theorems.
    EW.com, 9 Oct. 2023
  • And at this point, Fermat’s last theorem was nothing new and his interest in it was a bit eccentric.
    Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Often, a theorem is not true for all real numbers but can be proved for all real numbers outside of a null set.
    Martin Goldstern, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2021
  • And, in fact, the conjecture is an extension of Fermat’s last theorem.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The circle of mathematical ideas around the Atiyah-Singer theorem grew in the ensuing years.
    Quanta Magazine, 4 Mar. 2021
  • In a pair of recent papers, the scientists attack a pillar of black hole theory called the no-hair theorem.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 20 Mar. 2018

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