Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Jan. 2009
The term corollary it can be used in various contexts. On the one hand it serves us and is widely used for speak or give an account of the consequence of some question. For example and in this sense, the term in question, in the context of a chronicle journalism that refers to the war action that is taking place in a region particular of the planet earth serves to give an idea to the reader why such an action finally took place. To be more graphic, in that review, surely, the journalist uses the corollary term for want give an idea of then, that is, after an incessant amount of violent events and confrontations, the corollary or the final result of these was the aforementioned military action that took place.
And on the other hand, in a mathematical context for example, a corollary is a proposition that does not need to be proven, but is very easily deduced from what was previously shown. It is generally a statement that immediately follows a theorem.
A concrete example is the best way to understand this second reference to the term. From the theorem that states that the sum of the measures of the interior angles associated with a
triangle is 180 °, it follows as corollary number one that the sum of its acute angles is 90 ° and as second Corollary it follows that a triangle cannot have more than one right angle nor more than one obtuse. Themes in Corollary