Mathematical folklore
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title:
Mathematical folklore
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In common mathematical parlance, a mathematical result is called folklore if it is an unpublished result with no clear originator, but which is well-circulated and believed to be true among the specialists. More specifically, folk mathematics, or mathematical folklore, is the body of theorems, definitions, proofs, facts or techniques that circulate among mathematicians by word of mouth, but have not yet appeared in print, either in books or in scholarly journals. Quite important at times for res
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Communally-attributed mathematical results
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_folklore
date created:
2003-01-14T05:53:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T21:52:52Z
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