Talk:Corollary

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This stub is important. i just found it. it should never be deleted or consumed into a larger article. I didn't write any of it but it's a really valid page about a mathematical concept. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Oxinabox (talk • contribs) 23:04, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This math article is NOT a stub, there is simply not more to say about this topic. It gives a valid and very helpful distinction between the most often confused terms. I think it is not a stub but simply concise and thus a very good example for a successfull entry in wikipedia. (Netzwerkerin (talk) 16:38, 28 August 2009 (UTC))[reply]

We don't delete articles for being stubs. We might delete, or merge, articles for there being little to say about the topic. Although I strongly suspect that in this case there are in fact more to say. Taemyr (talk) 06:35, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well something to add would be the non-mathematical use of the term. In colloquial use it doesn't mean exactly the same thing. 87.115.48.138 (talk) 13:59, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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English: that should be of lesser. Mathematics: it happens quite often that a corollary is an important result in its own right, perhaps a very famous one at that. The author wishes to point out that this important result now follows easily from the just-established theorem, and indicates it as a corollary to stress this. 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:6952:F0EE:E8A3:95CF (talk) 14:48, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Is it correct to refer to a result as a corollary if it predates the corresponding theorem?

The corollary may have been a theorem without its own name (if it were not well known or recognised until after the more general result), or a conjecture, or stated as if proved but this was later considered inadequate because of some deeper issue (or it may have been introduced without full mathematical rigour e.g. by a scientist).

A possible example is Einstein's (1914) version of the (1930s) Wiener-Khinchin theorem. Einstein's may rely on existence that Wiener and Khinchin strove not to require. 192.76.8.66 (talk) 13:05, 19 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]