Word: theorems
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Anne-Marie Oreskovich '99 spoke about her research in knot theory and the Unique Prime Decomposition of Knots Theorem, which states, "No matter how ugly a knot is, provided that it's tame, [it] can be decomposed into a product of prime knots...
Three of the cleanest-shaven men in the world are beaming. For 27 years the third blade, like Darwin's missing link or Fermat's last theorem, had eluded them. The idea of three blades dancing on the head of a razor was so preposterous that Saturday Night Live used it as a commercial parody in 1975. To the engineers at Gillette, that joke was a cruel mockery, a searing reminder of their limitations...
This play trades in esoterica. The prologue featured fake French in a thin-historicism that was quickly evaporated by the sight of black maskers exhibiting a proof of the Pythagorean theorem, to a chorus of ringing phones...
...real world were as simple and elegant as the content of the Coase Theorem suggests--that is, if private parties could bargain over resources without cost and therefore solve the problem of externalities on their own--then Central Square defender Jon Bekken would be busy bargaining with the Holmes Trust at this moment rather than complaining about Holmes' proposed development, as he did in The Crimson, in a March...
Bott's most famous contribution to mathematics is the Bott Periodicity Theorem, which he discovered in 1956. It was the first, and in a sense the only explanation of the homotopy groups of an important space, in this case, of all-invertiable matrices. He also found a periodic structure in these homotopy groups...