• In decision theory, economics, and probability theory, the Dutch book arguments are a set of results showing that agents must satisfy the axioms of rational...
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  • expose you to certain loss through a Dutch book are called coherent. De Finetti is also noted for de Finetti's theorem on exchangeable sequences of random...
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    coin)? Bayesian probability Boy or girl paradox Doomsday argument Dutch book theorems Monty Hall problem Lewis, Peter J. (2007). "Quantum Sleeping Beauty"...
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  • cases of this behaviour can be considered rational. However, the Dutch book theorems show that this comes at a major cost of internal coherence, such...
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  • method in contrast to traditional epistemology is that its concepts and theorems can be defined with a high degree of precision. It is based on the idea...
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  • These axioms, apart from continuity, are often justified using the Dutch book theorems (whereas continuity is used to set aside lexicographic or infinitesimal...
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  • Gödel's incompleteness theorems are two theorems of mathematical logic that are concerned with the limits of provability in formal axiomatic theories...
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    Bayesians will often motivate the Kolmogorov axioms by invoking Cox's theorem or the Dutch book arguments instead. The assumptions as to setting up the axioms...
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  • recursion theorems are a pair of fundamental results about the application of computable functions to their own descriptions. The theorems were first...
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    exceptions involving parallel lines. Desargues's theorem is therefore one of the simplest geometric theorems whose natural home is in projective rather than...
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    increases without bound. These theorems require stronger hypotheses than the forms of the central limit theorem given above. Theorems of this type are often called...
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    ring with a Hecke algebra (now referred to as an R=T theorem) to prove modularity lifting theorems has been an influential development in algebraic number...
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  • Bolyai. Vol. 10. North-Holland, Amsterdam/London. pp. 323–332. Rödl, V. (1973). The dimension of a graph and generalized Ramsey theorems (Master's thesis)...
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  • pose; the constraints are justified by the Dutch book argument or by decision theory and de Finetti's theorem. The objective and subjective variants of...
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    L. E. J. Brouwer (category Pages with Dutch IPA)
    Mysticism (1905). Brouwer was born to Dutch Protestant parents. Early in his career, Brouwer proved a number of theorems in the emerging field of topology...
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    book, Euclides Danicus, simultaneously in Copenhagen and Amsterdam, in Danish and Dutch respectively. This book, proving the Mohr–Mascheroni theorem 125...
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  • Two other theorems of Helly and Radon are closely related to Carathéodory's theorem: the latter theorem can be used to prove the former theorems and vice...
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    most commonly used method for attractor reconstruction. Delay embedding theorems are simpler to state for discrete-time dynamical systems. The state space...
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    theorem could be considered a weaker version of his own theorem[failed verification] and other utility representation theorems like the VNM theorem,...
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  • the theorem for triangle-free graphs is known as Mantel's theorem; it was stated in 1907 by Willem Mantel, a Dutch mathematician. Turán's theorem states...
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    constructs. To establish theorems, mathematicians apply rules of inference to these axioms, aiming to demonstrate that the theorems are logical consequences...
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  • axiomatic basis, writing in a 1973 book that Bayes' theorem "is to the theory of probability what the Pythagorean theorem is to geometry". Stephen Stigler...
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    system of Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory. Gödel's incompleteness theorems are two theorems of mathematical logic that establish inherent limitations of all...
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  • Complex Analysis in Several Variables (3rd ed.), North Holland, ISBN 978-1-493-30273-4 "Hartogs theorem", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press, 2001 [1994]...
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    Mathematiker-Vereinigung, 19: 155–159 Thomas, Robin (1999), "Recent Excluded Minor Theorems for Graphs", in Lamb, John D.; Preece, D. A. (eds.), Surveys in combinatorics...
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  • theorem that is proved from true premises by means of a sequence of syllogisms (inference rules), the premises being either already proved theorems or...
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  • logic such as Gödel's incompleteness theorems and Tarski's indefinability theorem. In Bayesian statistics, Bayes' theorem provides a useful rule for updating...
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  • Consistency (redirect from Henkin's theorem)
    incompleteness theorems show that any sufficiently strong recursively enumerable theory of arithmetic cannot be both complete and consistent. Gödel's theorem applies...
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  • Deaths in 2025 (category Articles with Dutch-language sources (nl))
    (2004–2010). Gerard Soeteman, 88, Dutch screenwriter (The Assault, Turkish Delight, Soldier of Orange). Jan Terlouw, 93, Dutch politician, minister of economic...
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    theorem in 1929 as part of his dissertation to earn a doctorate at the University of Vienna, and the publication of Gödel's incompleteness theorems two...
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