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In common mathematical parlance, a mathematical result is called folklore if it is an unpublished result with no clear originator, but which is well-circulated and believed to be true among the specialists.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.[1] Quite important at times for researchers are folk theorems, which are results known, at least to experts in a field, and are considered to have established status, though not published in complete form.[1] Sometimes, these are only alluded to in the public literature. An example is a book of exercises, described on the back cover: This book contains almost 350 exercises in the basics of ring theory. The problems form the "folklore" of ring theory, and the solutions are given in as much detail as possible.[2] Another distinc

Mathematical folklore - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Communally-attributed mathematical results For other uses of "folk theorem", see Folk theorem (disambiguation) . In common mathematical parlance, a mathematical result is called folklore if it is an unpublished result with no clear originator, but which is well-circulated and believed to be true among the specialists.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 hav

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