Spencer Heath's
Series
Spencer Heath Archive
Item 206
Verbatim notes by Spencer MacCallum from conversation with Heath
June 19, 1959
A theory or theorem is a kind of abstraction in that it is a description of one thing in terms which apply equally well to a large class of things — of which the one thing is a member.
A term is an algebraic expression which denotes quantity but no operation.
Metadata
| Title | Conversation - 206 - Definitions: Theory, Theorem, Term |
| Collection Name | Spencer Heath Archive |
| Series | Conversation |
| Box number | 2:117-223 |
| Document number | 206 |
| Date / Year | 1959-06-19 |
| Authors / Creators / Correspondents | |
| Description | Verbatim notes by Spencer MacCallum from conversation with Heath |
| Keywords | Science |