MATHEMATICAL PROOF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mathematical proof mean? 

• MATHEMATICAL PROOF (noun)
  The noun MATHEMATICAL PROOF has 1 sense:

1. proof of a mathematical theorem

  Familiarity information: MATHEMATICAL PROOF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATHEMATICAL PROOF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Proof of a mathematical theorem

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("mathematical proof" is a kind of...):

proof (a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it)

 Context examples 

Remarkably, these engineering researchers developed this first mathematical proof, which shows that the elegant shape folded from concentrically pleated squares is invariantly a hyperbolic paraboloid, said Nakhiah Goulbourne, NSF program director for Mechanics of Materials and Structures.

(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)