Timeline for Theorem versus Proposition
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| Feb 25, 2013 at 2:13 | comment | added | ACL | If I remember correctly, in Atiyah's paper on division of distributions (ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=256156), Hironaka's Theorem is stated as a Lemma! | |
| Feb 5, 2012 at 4:44 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | @Mark: Yoneda once had that dream... | |
| Mar 18, 2010 at 10:03 | vote | accept | MRA | ||
| Mar 18, 2010 at 10:03 | vote | accept | MRA | ||
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| Mar 17, 2010 at 10:25 | comment | added | Philipp Lampe | See also Zeilberger's 82nd opinion "A Good Lemma is Worth a Thousand Theorems": math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion82.html | |
| Mar 16, 2010 at 17:04 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Kim Morrison | ||
| Mar 16, 2010 at 14:45 | comment | added | Mark Meckes | In fact I've heard it claimed that many mathematicians' fondest dream is to prove not a great theorem but one great lemma. | |
| Mar 16, 2010 at 13:56 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | A Lemma is a technical intermediate step which has no standing as an independent result. But sometimes they escape, as Zorn's or Fatou's lemmas did. | |
| Mar 16, 2010 at 10:55 | history | answered | user1688 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |