Mathematical English Usage - a Dictionary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

namely

Here D0 and D1 are discs with the same centre, namely b.

The object of this paper is to obtain improvements in two cases, namely for forms of degree 7 and 11.

It has some basic properties in common with another most important class of functions, namely, the continuous ones.

There is another, entirely different, way to see that A=B. Namely, one can first show that......

[Note the difference between namely and that is: while namely introduces specific or extra information, that is (or i.e.) introduces another way of putting what has already been said.]



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