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  2. Mathematical proof - Wikipedia

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    The definition of a formal proof is intended to capture the concept of proofs as written in the practice of mathematics. The soundness of this definition amounts to the belief that a published proof can, in principle, be converted into a formal proof. However, outside the field of automated proof assistants, this is rarely done in practice.

  3. Self-verifying theories - Wikipedia

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    Here, one cannot prove the sentence expressing totality of multiplication: (,) (,,). where is the three-place predicate which stands for / =. When the operations are expressed in this way, provability of a given sentence can be encoded as an arithmetic sentence describing termination of an analytic tableau .

  4. Multiplication theorem - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the multiplication theorem is a certain type of identity obeyed by many special functions related to the gamma function.For the explicit case of the gamma function, the identity is a product of values; thus the name.

  5. Proof theory - Wikipedia

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    Reverse mathematics is a program in mathematical logic that seeks to determine which axioms are required to prove theorems of mathematics. [5] The field was founded by Harvey Friedman . Its defining method can be described as "going backwards from the theorems to the axioms ", in contrast to the ordinary mathematical practice of deriving ...

  6. Reverse mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Reverse mathematics is a program in mathematical logic that seeks to determine which axioms are required to prove theorems of mathematics. Its defining method can briefly be described as "going backwards from the theorems to the axioms ", in contrast to the ordinary mathematical practice of deriving theorems from axioms.

  7. Foundations of mathematics - Wikipedia

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    These problems were also studied by mathematicians, and this led to establish mathematical logic as a new area of mathematics, consisting of providing mathematical definitions to logics (sets of inference rules), mathematical and logical theories, theorems, and proofs, and of using mathematical methods to prove theorems about these concepts.

  8. List of incomplete proofs - Wikipedia

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    In 1961, Jan-Erik Roos published an incorrect theorem about the vanishing of the first derived functor of the inverse limit functor under certain general conditions. [14] However, in 2002, Amnon Neeman constructed a counterexample. [15] Roos showed in 2006 that the theorem holds if one adds the assumption that the category has a set of ...

  9. Principia Mathematica - Wikipedia

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    The notion, and notation, of "a class" (set): In the first edition PM asserts that no new primitive ideas are necessary to define what is meant by "a class", and only two new "primitive propositions" called the axioms of reducibility for classes and relations respectively (PM 1962:25). [27]