Word: theorem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Jan. 17] the Pons Asinorum is the proposition stating the sum of the squares on the sides of a right triangle equals the square of the hypotenuse. This is the Pathagerean Theorem. The Pons Asinorum states that if two sides of a triangle are equal the angles opposite these sides are equal. Pons refers to the figure used to prove the proposition...
...report, that the best way to learn facts is to listen to a statement of them while one is asleep. It is given as proof that a Terre Haute mechanic with only the most rudimentary education has, by clamping radio phones to his ears, learned the binomial theorem, select passages from American history, some irregular French verbs, and yards upon yards of poetry all while he was fast asleep...
...Miller's direct imputation to the contrary, intelligence can never be sure of itself, both because it can never delve to the bottom of its facts, and because, being a human attribute, it is subject to the intermittent rule of human fallibility. To proceed on the unproved theorem that intelligence can consciously change the world is so great risk that it is justified in proceeding with the caution which Mr. Miller deplores. Until someone discovers a genuine criterion of truth, intelligence must become accustomed to what Mr. Miller calls the "infamous waste and cruel suffering that its miscarriage is constantly...
...speaker for the evening will be Professor William Fogg Osgood '86, who will present a paper entitled "Wierstrass" Second Theorem on implicit functions...
Prof. Bernoulli, of the Univ. of Basle−The Bernoulli Theorem, basis of much modern hydraulics...