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maths proofs!

http://personal.stevens.edu/~nkahl/Top100Theorems.html

i think i'm going to go to bed now...

EDIT: i would also like to point out that pythagoras believed that the no.1 proof could not be true and so killed the student who proved it.

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Nerd.

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I'm glad to see Godel's Incompleteness Theorem in the top ten at #6. Proving that there are true propositions which can not be proved just blows my mind. Go Go Godel!

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Originally posted by genius
maths proofs!

http://personal.stevens.edu/~nkahl/Top100Theorems.html

i think i'm going to go to bed now...

EDIT: i would also like to point out that pythagoras believed that the no.1 proof could not be true and so killed the student who proved it.
sad stuff. Regardless of my love of my work, I was always fascinated with maths. Sadly, never had enough time to read, thus I cannot understand such things. 😠

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What about the RHP theorem,

the probability of having intimate relations with someone of the opposite sex without paying for it varies in inverse propotion to the square of ones rating at internet correspondence chess

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Back in High School, I had a Plane and Solid Geometry instructor who invented a proof for validating the proofs of a triangle when you didn't have enough information to solve them. You remember ASA which was "angle side angle". And SSS which was "side side side". and SAS which was "side angle side".

My instructor invented ISS which stood for "I said so". He would use it when he got hung up and didn't know how to solve it on the spot. So one day on an exam there was a problem that I was stuck on, so I just said ISS in my proof and turned it in. After the exams were graded he calls me up and congratulates me on my ingenuity, shows me that he gave me credit, he tells me I had guts to pull that stunt, then tells me if I ever did it again he would fail me. Of course I never did it again, but I always remembered beating the system once anyway.

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Originally posted by shortcircuit
Back in High School, I had a Plane and Solid Geometry instructor who invented a proof for validating the proofs of a triangle when you didn't have enough information to solve them. You remember ASA which was "angle side angle". And SSS which was "side side side". and SAS which was "side angle side".

My instructor invented ISS which stood for "I said ...[text shortened]... f course I never did it again, but I always remembered beating the system once anyway.
i remember once being stuck in an exam-it must have been a prelim 'cause it was quite important but we got it back. anyway, it was one of the "show that such-and-such equal f", where f was a massive big formula. and i ended up with this thing that was kinda similar to f but wasn't it. and i just couldn't manipulate what i had to get it to be f. i also couldn't see any problems in my working. so i just said, "we can now obviously see that this equals f". and i got the marks! 5 marks, in the bag!

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Originally posted by Doctor Rat
I'm glad to see Godel's Incompleteness Theorem in the top ten at #6. Proving that there are true propositions which can not be proved just blows my mind. Go Go Godel!

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looking at the top 10, there are a lot from number theory. i thought no. 15 could have been higher too...

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Originally posted by genius
looking at the top 10, there are a lot from number theory. i thought no. 15 could have been higher too...
Number theory is the mostbeautiful theory in math. IMO
Number 3 rocks my socks! I even know it by heart!
Number 5 was stateed by Gauss, the math god, when he was still a teenager and it took something like 150 yrs for someone to finally prove it.
Number 14 is a good one too. Try to get a hold on Euler's proof.
Number 74 gives us a pretty useful result!
NAd fir number 2. Gauss proved it in 4 different ways during his life time. The first while he was on his early 20's. That proof had evaded most of the greatest mathematicians during something like a century and the come this guy and he proves it in four different ways. WOW

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