Mathematical English Usage - a Glossary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

enable

[sth; sb to do sth; see also: allow, permit, possible]

Repeated application of Lemma 2 enables us to write...... [ Or: enables one to write; not: “enables to write”]

Also, wherever possible, we work with integer coefficients, enabling us to obtain information about torsion.

In fact, there is a trick which enables one to reduce the time dependent case on Rn to the time independent case on Rn+1.

This enables discontinuous derivations to be built.


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