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This is a list of lemmas (i.e. minor theorems, or sometimes intermediate technical results factored out of proofs), by Wikipedia page. See also list of theorems and list of conjectures. In mathematics, a lemma is a proven proposition which is used as a stepping stone to a larger result rather than an independent statement, in and of itself. ... A theorem is a proposition that has been or is to be proved on the basis of explicit assumptions. ... This is a list of theorems, by Wikipedia page. ... This is a list of conjectures, by Wikipedia page. ...


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Burnside's lemma: Information from Answers.com (445 words)
Burnside's lemma, sometimes also called Burnside's counting theorem, the Cauchy-Frobenius lemma or the orbit-counting theorem, is a result in group theory which is often useful in taking account of symmetry when counting mathematical objects.
Thus the number of orbits (a natural number or infinity) is equal to the average number of points fixed by an element of G (which consequently is also a natural number or infinity).
William Burnside stated and proved this lemma (without attribution) in his 1897 about this formula, but mathematical historians have pointed out that he was not the first to discover it; Cauchy in 1845 and Frobenius in 1887 also knew of this formula.
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