Mathematical English Usage - a Dictionary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

allow

[sth; sth to be sth; sb to do sth; see also: enable, permit, possible

These theorems allow one to guess the Plancherel formula. [Or: allow us to guess; not: “allow to guess”]

As the space of Example 3 shows, complete regularity of X is not enough to allow us to do that.

This allows proving the representation formula without having to integrate over X.

This easily allows the cases c=1,2,4 to be solved.

By allowing f to have both positive and negative forms, we obtain......

It is therefore natural to allow (5) to fail when x is not a continuity point of F.

The limit always exists (we allow it to take the value ∞).

Lebesgue discovered that a satisfactory theory of integration results if the sets Ei are allowed to belong to a larger class of subsets of the line.

In [3] we only allowed weight functions that were C1.

Here we allow a=0.

We deliberately allow that a given B may reappear in many different branches of the tree.



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