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Etymology

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FromMiddle Frenchthéorème, fromLate Latintheōrēma, fromAncient Greekθεώρημα(theṓrēma,“speculation, proposition to be proved”) (Euclid), fromθεωρέω(theōréō,“I look at, view, consider, examine”), fromθεωρός(theōrós,“spectator”), fromθέα(théa,“a view”) +ὁράω(horáō,“I see, look”). See alsotheory, andtheater.

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theorem (pluraltheorems)

  1. (mathematics) Amathematicalstatement of someimportance that has beenproven to betrue. Minor theorems are often calledpropositions. Theorems which are not very interesting in themselves but are anessential part of a bigger theorem'sproof are calledlemmas.
  2. (mathematics, colloquial, nonstandard) Amathematicalstatement that isexpected to betrue.
    Fermat's LastTheorem was known thus long before it was proved in the 1990s.
  3. (logic) Asyntactically correctexpression that isdeducible from the givenaxioms of adeductivesystem.

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proved mathematical statement
mathematical statement that is expected to be true
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Verb

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theorem (third-person singular simple presenttheorems,present participletheoreming,simple past and past participletheoremed)

  1. (transitive) To formulate into a theorem.

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