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Propositions
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- A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- —Attributed to both Alfréd Rényi and Paul Erdős
- Weak coffee is suitable "only for lemmas."[1]
- —Suggested by Paul Turán
A proposition is a generic term for a theorem of no particular importance. This term sometimes connotes a statement with a simple proof, while the term theorem is usually reserved for the most important results or those with long or difficult proofs.
See also
- {{Proposition}} OEIS Wiki utility template
Notes
- ↑ ... and corollaries?