Mathematics poll

[ciphergoth]

Inspired by a similar poll in palmer1984's journal.

About the "proof" question below: examples of the kind of proof I mean would be a proof that there are infinitely many primes, or that the square root of two is irrational, or of Pythagoras's Theorem. A proof in computer science counts too. By "know a proof off by heart" I mean that you'd be able to convince someone of it at a party, if they had the background to follow the proof.

If you know lots of proofs, feel free to choose one you particularly like in the last question...

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Comments

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

Yes, this - including the dyscalculia. Still if someone asks me a very simple sum I freeze up, stutter, stammer, feel three inches high and extremely stupid and run away.

[elsmi.livejournal.com]

For whatever it's worth, that's also roughly the reaction of most mathematics grad students I've known.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

BTW your example theorem was the same as mine, I think!