Mathematical English Usage - a Glossary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

attempt

1
[at sth; at doing sth; to do sth; see also: trial] This work was intended as an attempt to motivate <at motivating>......

Among the attempts made in this direction, the most notable ones were due to Jordan and Borel.

This attempt is doomed because the homogeneity condition fails. [= the attempt is certain to fail]  

2
[sth; to do sth; see also: try] In 1988, while attempting to generalize this result, the second author noticed that......

Since most of the results presented are quite classical (the novelty lies in the arrangement, and some of the proofs are new), I have not attempted to document the source of every item.

Thus it is reasonable to attempt using this homeomorphism to gain an understanding of the structure of M.


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