Mathematical English Usage - a Glossary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

true

[see also: hold, valid]

The conjecture (now known not to be true in general) was that......

In other algorithms, this may not be true.

This is not true of F. [Or: for F]

This works regardless of [= irrespective of] whether B is true or false.

Let us now take a quick look at the class N, with the purpose of determining how much of Theorems 1 and 2 is true here.

This suggests a question: under what conditions is it true that......?

Only in exceptional circumstances is it true that f(x+y)=f(x)+f(y). [Note the inversion.]


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