Mathematical English Usage - a Glossary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

similar

[to sth; see also: like, resemble]

It is in all respects similar to matrix multiplication. [Not: “similar as'']

In the course of writing this paper we learned that P. Fox has simultaneously obtained results similar to ours in certain respects.

The proof is similar in spirit to that of [8].

Analysis similar to that in Section 2 shows that......

Similar arguments to those above show that......

A similar result holds for......

in a similar fashion

in an exactly similar way


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