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Aside, it's a shape that hypothesis in math (axiom) is the opposite of hypothesis in science (claim to test)
by lonelappde 7y ago
Aside, it's a shape that hypothesis in math (axiom) is the opposite of hypothesis in science (claim to test)
- thaumasiotes 7y agoNot really. The words are used in closely analogous ways. But the "hypothesis" in "continuum hypothesis" is part of the name of the continuum hypothesis, carried over from a time when we didn't know the answer. Names are just names. Euclid's Algorithm is an algorithm. The Division Algorithm is a theorem.