Mathematics poll
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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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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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Date: 2009-02-19 01:00 pm (UTC)I'm pretty sure one of the gas laws (Boyle's Law, etc) I knew at some point (that'd be the one that was easy...!) and a few other physics ones and several geometric ones and the like are among them. I definitely knew the conics ones.
Bah, must be getting old!