Mathematical English Usage - a Dictionary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

apart

[from sth; see also: besides, except

Apart from these two lemmas, we make no use of the results of [4].

That is---apart from the use of relaxed controls---precisely the stochastic Bellman equation.

Apart from being very involved, the proof requires the use of......

for no x apart from the unique solution of......

[Note the difference between besides, except and apart from: besides usually indicates “adding'' something, except “subtracts'', and apart from can be used in both senses; after no, nothing etc., all three can be used.]

Their centres are a distance at least N apart.

The m points x1,…,xm are regularly spaced t units apart.

What sets the case n=5 apart is the fact that homotopic embeddings in a 5-manifold need not be isotopic.



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