English-Dutch translations for theorem

• stelling
  Dit is de stelling van president Chirac waarmee hij als het ware zijn ambtsperiode afsluit. This is Chirac's Theorem, as it were, to mark the end of his term of office.
  Nu blijft het bij de stelling van Blair, naast de bekende stelling van Pythagoras. Moreover, we now have Blair’s theorem, which has taken its place alongside that of Pythagoras.
• theorema
  Dat is het theorema dat op het frontispies van het pakket economisch bestuur zou moeten staan. This is the theorem that should appear on the frontispiece of the 'governance' package.

Definition of theorem

• A mathematical statement of some importance that has been proven to be true. Minor theorems are often called ''propositions''. Theorems which are not very interesting in themselves but are an essential part of a bigger theorem's proof are called ''lemmas''
• A syntactically correct expression that is deducible from the given axioms of a deductive system
• To formulate into a theorem

Examples

• Fermats Last Theorem was known thus long before it was proved in the 1990s

Related words

• fundamental theorem
• Bolzano's theorem
• binomial theorem
• Pythagorean theorem
• intermediate value theorem
• divergence theorem
• the divergence theorem
• spectral theorem
• prime number theorem