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lemma (lĕm`ə): see theorem theorem, in mathematics and logic, statement in words or symbols that can be established by means of deductive logic; it differs from an axiom in that a proof is required for its acceptance. ..... Click the link for more information. . lemma [′lem·ə] (botany) Either of the pair of bracts that are borne above the glumes and enclose the flower of a grass spikelet. (mathematics) A mathematical fact germane to the proof of some theorem.
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In the thirteenth century it influenced Aquinas, who had parts of Proclus' long commentary, along with the apposite lemmata, translated into Latin for him by the Dominican William of Moerbeke; and in the fifteenth, it molded the Platonism both of Cusanus, for whom it was quickly and sloppily translated by George of Trebizond (a rabid Aristotelian), and of Bessarion. |
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