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  2. Mathematical proof - Wikipedia

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    With the increase in computing power in the 1960s, significant work began to be done investigating mathematical objects beyond the proof-theorem framework, [27] in experimental mathematics. Early pioneers of these methods intended the work ultimately to be resolved into a classical proof-theorem framework, e.g. the early development of fractal ...

  3. Conjecture - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a conjecture is a conclusion or a proposition that is proffered on a tentative basis without proof. [1] [2] [3] Some conjectures, such as the Riemann hypothesis or Fermat's conjecture (now a theorem, proven in 1995 by Andrew Wiles), have shaped much of mathematical history as new areas of mathematics are developed in order to ...

  4. Theorem - Wikipedia

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    The Pythagorean theorem has at least 370 known proofs. [1]In mathematics and formal logic, a theorem is a statement that has been proven, or can be proven. [a] [2] [3] The proof of a theorem is a logical argument that uses the inference rules of a deductive system to establish that the theorem is a logical consequence of the axioms and previously proved theorems.

  5. List of conjectures - Wikipedia

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    As reformulated, it became the "paving conjecture" for Euclidean spaces, and then a question on random polynomials, in which latter form it was solved affirmatively. 2015: Jean Bourgain, Ciprian Demeter, and Larry Guth: Main conjecture in Vinogradov's mean-value theorem: analytic number theory: Bourgain–Demeter–Guth theorem, ⇐ decoupling ...

  6. List of incomplete proofs - Wikipedia

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    The theorem was popularized by Jet Wimp and Doron Zeilberger in 1985. [19] However, while the result is probably true, as of now (2021) Birkhoff and Trjitzinsky's proof is not generally accepted by experts, and the theorem is (acceptedly) proved only in special cases. [20] Jacobian conjecture.

  7. Bertrand's postulate - Wikipedia

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    His conjecture was completely proved by Chebyshev (1821–1894) in 1852 [3] and so the postulate is also called the Bertrand–Chebyshev theorem or Chebyshev's theorem. Chebyshev's theorem can also be stated as a relationship with π ( x ) {\displaystyle \pi (x)} , the prime-counting function (number of primes less than or equal to x ...

  8. Constructive proof - Wikipedia

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    First consider the theorem that there are an infinitude of prime numbers. Euclid's proof is constructive. But a common way of simplifying Euclid's proof postulates that, contrary to the assertion in the theorem, there are only a finite number of them, in which case there is a largest one, denoted n.

  9. Proof of Bertrand's postulate - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, Bertrand's postulate (now a theorem) states that, for each , there is a prime such that < <.First conjectured in 1845 by Joseph Bertrand, [1] it was first proven by Chebyshev, and a shorter but also advanced proof was given by Ramanujan.