Mathematical English Usage - a Glossary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

question

[see also: problem, issue, matter, subject, topic, point]

An obvious question to ask is whether Theorem 1 continues to hold for......

A natural question is how sharp the bounds given in Theorem 6 are.

The question of whether B is ever strictly larger than A remains open. [Or: The question whether]

The question as to how often we should expect the class number to be divisible by p is also of some interest.

The question we shall be concerned with is whether or not f is......

The question arises whether......

The lemma raises an interesting question:......

It is generally a highly nontrivial question whether......

This suggests a question: under what conditions is it true that...... ?

Put this way, the question is not precise enough.

This question was answered negatively in [5]. However, on the positive side, Davies [5] proved that......

When A is commutative, the answer to both questions is “yes''.

The two questions listed below remain unanswered.

The continuum in question is then called arc-like.


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