- Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
- Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.
- Being finicky or fastidious, especially with language.
- (archaic) A teacher or schoolmaster.
- , vol. 1 ch. 24:
- I have in my youth oftentimes beene vexed to see a Pedant [tr. pedante] brought in, in most of Italian comedies, for a vice or sport-maker, and the nicke-name of Magister to be of no better signification amongst us.
- A person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary.
- (slang) A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
- Pedantic.
- (location) In, on, or at this place.
- 1849, Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H., VII,
- Dark house, by which once more I stand / Here in the long unlovely street,
- 2008, Omar Khadr, Affidavit of Omar Ahmed Khadr,
- The Canadian visitor stated, “I’m not here to help you. I’m not here to do anything for you. I’m just here to get information.”
Lemma 2.9 if $(X,d)$ is an ultrametric space, then any two open balls of radius $r>0$ are eithier equal or disjiont. In particular, if X is compact, then every open ball of radius r is clopen and the collection of all open balls of radius r forms a partition.
let $B_r(x) $ and $B'_r(y)$ be open ...
Suppose that X and Y are compact Hausdorff spaces and $p:C(X)\to C(Y)$ is a unital * homomorphism.
Prove that there exists a continuous function $h: Y \to X $ such that $p(f)=f\circ h $ for all f in $C(X) $
I have managed to prove the other 3 parts ( show the statement false if $p$ is not unital...
By Solovay's theorem, assuming the existence of an inaccessible cardinal, the axiom of choice is necessary to prove the existence of nonmeasurable sets. In the past, I've thought that one consequence of this theorem is that if I construct a set without using choice (or even merely using dependent...
The existence of subsets of the real line which are not Lebesgue measurable can be argued using the Axiom of Choice. For example, define an equivalence relation on $[0, 1]$ by
$a \thicksim b$ if and only if $a - b \in \mathbb{Q}$
and let $S \subset [0, 1]$ contain exactly one representative fro...
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You will forget to sleep the night before, and to eat the morning o...- (uncountable) Endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of a beginning, end or limits to size.
- (countable, mathematics) A number that has an infinite numerical value that cannot be counted.
- (countable, topology, mathematical analysis) An idealised point which is said to be approached by sequences of values whose magnitudes increase without bound.
- (uncountable) A number which is very large compared to some characteristic number. For example, in optics, an object which is much further away than the focal length of a lens is said to be "at infinity", as the distance of the image from the lens varies very little as the distance increases further.
- (uncountable) The symbol ∞.
- (chiefly theology) Relating to a person's acts or deeds; active, practical. [from 14th c.]
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, First Folio 1623, V.1:
- In this slumbry agitation, besides her walking, and other actuall performances, what (at any time) haue you heard her say?
- 1946, The American Ecclesiastical Review, vol. 114:
- Apparently, the holy Doctor was referring to actual, rather than original, sin; yet the basis of his argument for Mary's holiness, the divine maternity, would logically lead to the conclusion that she was free from original sin also.
