• In number theory, Grimm's conjecture (named after Carl Albert Grimm, 1 April 1926 – 2 January 2018) states that to each element of a set of consecutive...
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  • conjecture Kelvin's conjecture Kouchnirenko's conjecture Mertens conjecture Pólya conjecture, 1919 (1958) Ragsdale conjecture Schoenflies conjecture (disproved...
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  • Grimm's conjecture: each element of a set of consecutive composite numbers can be assigned a distinct prime number that divides it. Hall's conjecture:...
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    etymology. Even though the Grimm brothers were aware of it, Jacob Grimm seemingly endorsed a different etymology (§ Grimm's alternate etymology), though...
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    Economic Perspectives. 22: 3–24. doi:10.1257/jep.22.1.3. hdl:10419/60598. Grimm, Bruce T.; Moulton, Brent R.; Wasshausen, David B. (2002). "Information...
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  • study of the Fujita conjecture. The name is in honour of the Indian mathematician C. S. Seshadri. It is known that Nagata's conjecture on algebraic curves...
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    manuscripts is apparently in bad shape, and in the editions it is more or less conjecture". In the Prose Edda, Himinbjörg is mentioned twice, both times in the...
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    elevate it to the status of a remnant of pagan antiquity, scoffed at by Grimm's entry in his Deutsches Wörterbuch. An etymology suggested by James Skene...
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    See full quote with opposite translation, below. Grimm & Stallybrass tr. (1888), 4: 1414. Grimm's annotation to his Deutsche Mythologie. He states the...
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    fictional wolf appearing in several cautionary tales, including some of Grimms' Fairy Tales. Versions of this character have appeared in numerous works...
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    realize them using circles in three-dimensional space, but it has been conjectured that they may be realized by copies of any non-circular simple closed...
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  • Professor of History at the University of York 2 November 2006 The Poincaré conjecture June Barrow-Green, Lecturer in the History of Mathematics at the Open...
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  • increasingly violent towards the rest of the Babylon 5 population. Dr. Trent conjectures that the artifact is a Jumpgate that takes one neither to normal space...
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    edition, 1908) had upheld Grimm's etymology. However, by around the same time in Germany, the alternate etymology not endorsed by Grimm (kob/kof "house, chamber"...
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    connection with Marzanna, the name of a demon/goddess of winter has been conjectured. It could be a soul of a person (alive or dead) such as a sinful woman...
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    (2004) as a shock jock, and in The Big Bang Theory episode "The Jiminy Conjecture" (2009) as Professor Crawley, an entomologist. He also released his autobiography...
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    company more pleasing to him than any mortal's could be; and what made this conjecture seem the more reasonable was, that if he were left ever so dirty, the...
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  • reagent and Grignard reaction Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, German folklorists, storytellers and linguist – Grimm's law, Grimmification Henri Grob, Swiss chess...
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    definitively with "no doubt whatever that it is of German origin" and relates a conjecture associating the central character with "a certain Reinard of Lorraine...
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  • Society, the Vril Society and the Nazi leadership, but this is based on conjecture and pseudo-facts. In the 1990s, the legend of the "Vril Society" was further...
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  • viewers—though the series did develop a cult following. Entertainment Weekly conjectures that despite its ratings decline, Fringe survived for five seasons in...
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    Lully, Saint-Georges was the obvious choice. But, according to Baron von Grimm's Correspondence litteraire, philosophique et critique, three of the Opéra's...
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    three series in a chain shift (e.g. with bh b p becoming b p f (known as Grimm's law in Germanic)). Among the other notable changes affecting consonants...
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    banners may have been constructed in a similar manner. Scholars[who?] conjecture that the raven flag was a symbol of Odin, who was often depicted accompanied...
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    Eva M. Cybulska goes further and says that Schubert's syphilis is a conjecture. His multi-system signs and symptoms, she says, could point at a number...
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    the scribe; the substitution of sterro "star" is a conjecture. scein is emendated from stein. Grimm (1812) excises dar uuarun auh as a spurious addition...
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    word origin. The Grimms' dictionary had listed the forms klabatermann, klabotermann, klaboltermann, and kabautermännchen and conjectured the word to derive...
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    Meiger [de]) is wolterken[s]. Grimm also lists English "elflocks" alongside alpzopf, drutenzopf, mahrenlocke and even conjectures it may be called *bilweichszopf...
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    historians Frédéric Dubois de Montpéreux and N. Murzakevich made the conjecture that Vladimir the Great was baptized in this basilica. After that, all...
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    ashore transformed into "little hornless cows". One stymied investigator conjectured this claim to be an extrapolation on Kennedy's statement that sea-cows...
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