Let ε < 0.

02.12.09

Little known results

Filed under: Bad proofs, Discontinuous humor — Travis @

Grabel’s Law: 2 is not equal to 3. Not even for very large values of 2.

The Fundamental Theorem of Analysis: Any theorem of analysis can be proven on an arbitrarily small piece of paper provided the author is sufficiently vague.

The Golden Rule of Teaching Mathematics: You must tell the truth, and nothing but the truth, but not the whole truth.

The Golden Rule of Deriving: Never trust any result that was proved after 11 pm.

The law of conservation of difficulties: There is no easy way to prove a deep result.

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