Mathematical English Usage - a Glossary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

purpose

[see also: aim, end, objective, intention]

Let us now take a quick look at the class N, with the purpose of determining how much of Theorems 1 and 2 is true here.

For this purpose, we first define......

The purpose of this paper is to provide simple exact upper bounds for the case where......

A detailed exposition, more suited to the purposes of the present article, is given in [9].

The motivation for the results of this section is the following result of John (paraphrased slightly to suit our purposes).


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