, is either some truth advanced, and shewn to be such by demonstration; or some operation proposed, and its solution shewn. In short, it is something proposed either to be demonstrated, or to be done or performed. The former is a theorem, and the latter is a problem.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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