Mathematical English Usage - a Dictionary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

application

[see also: means, use, via

Repeated application of (4) shows that......

As an example of the application of Theorem 5, suppose......

Even in the case n=2, the application of Theorem 6 gives essentially nothing better than the inequality......

Specifically, one might hope that a clever application of something like Choquet's theorem would yield the desired conclusion.

As an application, consider the Dirichlet problem Lf=0.

We then show how this leads to stronger results in applications.

[Do not use “application'' when you mean “map'': a map f:X→ Y ( not: “an application f'').]



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