Mathematical English Usage - a Glossary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

know

[see also: realize, recognize, grasp, aware]

We do not know whether or not Q(R)=R in this situation.

The map f, which we know to be bounded, is also right-continuous.

Knowing this matrix is equivalent to knowing the multiplicities of the ki.

However, we know of no way of deriving one theory directly from the other.

All the Knaster continua are known to have......

The best known of these is the Knaster continuum.

The answer is not known to us.

Many of them were already known to Gauss.

It has long been known that......

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

So far it seems not to be known whether the geometric condition on X can be omitted.

The importance of these examples lay not only in lowering the dimension of known counterexamples, but also in...... [Note that the past tense of lie is lay, not “lied''.]


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