Mathematical English Usage - a Glossary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

appeal

1
[see also: recourse] Recently proofs have been constructed which make no appeal to integration.

In the preceding proof, the appeal to the dominated convergence theorem may seem to be illegitimate since......  

2
[see also: invoke, refer] One of the appealing aspects of the spectral set γ is that it readily lends itself to explicit computation.

At this stage we appeal to Theorem 2 to deduce that......


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