Sentence examples for correct proof from inspiring English sources

For the first correct proof, a $1 million prize will be awarded by the Clay Mathematics Institute.

Ruffini's effort was not wholly successful, but in 1824 the Norwegian mathematician Niels Abel gave a correct proof.

"My reasoning was: if I made an error and someone used my work to construct a correct proof I would be pleased," he said.

According to "Einstein's Mistakes" by Hans Ohanian, the great physicist's derivation of the famous equation E=mc2 contained several errors; it wasn't until 1911 that another scientist, Max von Laue, developed a full and correct proof.

The first person to submit a correct proof of Goldbach's conjecture -- a well-known mathematical poser that has resisted solution for more than 250 years -- before March 15 , 2002 will receive a check for $1 million.

So here we give its correct proof.

When I visited him one day in early December, he was correcting the page proofs of "The Passage of Power" the way Proust used to correct proofs: scratching out, writing in between the lines, pasting in additional sheets of inserts.

However, Gilbert died before he could correct proofs for that edition, and so it reprinted the 1871 text, correcting only a few spelling mistakes.

He was deeply wounded, however, by the discovery in 1764 that Le Breton had secretly removed compromising material from the corrected proof sheets of about 10 folio volumes.

We give here a corrected proof.

Here we give a detailed analysis and the corrected proof.