Noun
proof of a mathematical theorem
Source: WordNetA mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things. Bonnie Jo Campbell
Science has always tried to understand nature by breaking things into their parts. Now it is overwhelmingly clear that wholes cannot he understood by analysis. This is one of those logical boomerangs, like the mathematical proof that no mathematical system can be truly coherent in itself. Marilyn Ferguson