Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kirk Therom

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The result was delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 02:24, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kirk Therom[edit]

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I originally prodded this thinking it had something to do with William Arthur Kirk, but the author removed the tag because it apparently does not. I've searched "Kirk theorem" consecutive but nothing relevant came up. It's a very obvious property of numbers (the average would be the middle number, duh) that I don't know if it even has a name. ... discospinster _talk 02:41, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Change name to Kirk's Theorem and make it a redirect to Caristi fixed point theorem. This does seem to be an alternative name, along with Caristi-Kirk theorem. It has no connection to the current content. Dingo1729 (talk) 04:27, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

On second thoughts, perhaps I am confused. The biographical article on William Arthur Kirk refers to both the Caristi-Kirk theorem and the redlinked Kirk Theorem. Does anyone know whether these are essentially distinct? Dingo1729 (talk) 04:35, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as an algebraic triviality which can have nothing to do with William Arthur Kirk. The result here was certainly known, for example, to Gauss. Sergeant Cribb (talk) 16:24, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Entirely trivial. Certainly not an eponymous theorem. Nageh (talk) 09:08, 29 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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