Sentence examples for notion of limit from inspiring English sources

Having defined the notion of limit in this context, it is straightforward to define continuity of a function.

Moreover, the notion of limit was then explained quite rigorously, in answer to such thinkers as Zeno and Berkeley.

It is now understood that Zeno was trying to come to grips with the notion of limit, which was not formally explained until the 19th century, although a start in that direction had been made by the French encyclopaedist Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717 83).

Since only what is "in" the world can be described, anything that is "higher" is excluded, including the notion of limit and the limit points themselves.

In [1], by using the notion of limit relative category, Marino and Saccon developed a 'limit' version of the ∇-theorems and found multiple solutions for some noncooperative elliptic systems where the nonlinearity satisfies the global ((AR)) condition.

This notion of limit is of course useful in determining physiological limits of variation of a parameter but it is probably not the best method of event detection.

"We're very far removed from any notion of limiting speech".

It says something of our familiarity with the notion of limited-edition produce that although this amuses, it doesn't particularly surprise.

The entire Republican field united around the notion of limiting Mr. Obama to a single term, but differed in proposing solutions to the ailing economy.

Ms. Chaux, the executive vice president of the First Residential Mortgage Services Corporation in Englewood Cliffs, said she supported the notion of limiting the amount of time a lender can take deciding whether to approve a short sale.

In particular, Fréchet devised a method of applying the notion of limits from calculus to the treatment of functions as elements of a vector space and a way of measuring lengths and distances among the functions to produce a metric space, which led to the profoundly fruitful subject now known as functional analysis.