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Proof most often refers to:Proof (truth), argument or sufficient evidence for the truth of a proposition Alcohol proof, a measure of an alcoholic drink's strength Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ProofA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: LY3437943, a novel triple glucagon, GIP, and GLP-1 receptor agonist for glycemic control and weight loss: From discovery to clinical proof of conceptInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Meditationes de prima philosophiaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Proof and Measurement of Association between Two ThingsCited 6,737 times
- Go sideways: Proof (truth)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: ChaosA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
Noun The degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments which induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.
Noun The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.
Noun Experience of something.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Proof and Measurement of Association between Two Things
Simple Proof of Security of the BB84 Quantum Key Distribution Protocol
A Proof for the Queuing Formula: L = λ W
Supplementation with Akkermansia muciniphila in overweight and obese human volunteers: a proof-of-concept exploratory study
The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof Systems
Proof that ∂ E ∂ n i = ε in density-functional theory
A Direct Empirical Proof of the Existence of Dark Matter
Catheter-based renal sympathetic denervation for resistant hypertension: a multicentre safety and proof-of-principle cohort study
🆕 Influential since 2022
LY3437943, a novel triple glucagon, GIP, and GLP-1 receptor agonist for glycemic control and weight loss: From discovery to clinical proof of concept
Flame-retardant and leakage-proof phase change composites based on MXene/polyimide aerogels toward solar thermal energy harvesting
Lecanemab in patients with early Alzheimer’s disease: detailed results on biomarker, cognitive, and clinical effects from the randomized and open-label extension of the phase 2 proof-of-concept study
Guselkumab plus golimumab combination therapy versus guselkumab or golimumab monotherapy in patients with ulcerative colitis (VEGA): a randomised, double-blind, controlled, phase 2, proof-of-concept trial
Leakage Proof, Flame-Retardant, and Electromagnetic Shield Wood Morphology Genetic Composite Phase Change Materials for Solar Thermal Energy Harvesting
📚 Books worth reading
Meditationes de prima philosophiaRené Descartes · 1642
The God DelusionRichard Dawkins · 2001
Fermat's Last TheoremSimon Singh · 1997
The Weight of the EvidenceJ. I. M. Stewart · 1943
The Case for a Creator; a Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward GodLee Strobel · 2004
Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of GodStephen Charnock, William Symington · 1835
God and philosophyÉtienne Gilson · 1941
My Heart's in the HighlandsWilliam Saroyan · 1939
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