Mathematical English Usage - a Glossary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

approach

1
[see also: method, technique, procedure, way, line] We take the same approach as in [3].

We could have adopted an approach to proving Theorem 2 along a line of reasoning which bears greater resemblance to the treatment of the analogous result in Section 1.

The case a=1 requires a different approach.

The novelty of our approach lies in using......

It is important to notice some of the weaknesses inherent in the above approach.

It seems that the relations between these concepts emerge most clearly when the setting is quite abstract, and this (rather than a desire for mere generality) motivates our approach to the subject.

We sketch below one possible approach to obtaining such refinements.  

2
[see also: converge, tend] In the study of infinite series ∑ an it is of significance whether the an approach zero rapidly.


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