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Give me your most powerful mathematical theorem. The first time you read it you were bedazzled; it can't be true! The statement was just too grand! But no it was true.

I think overwhelming majority of mathematical theorems are idiotic, too simple, pointless, uneconomic, nonproductive, obvious, discuss some meaningless concept like philosophy or infinity.

But here are few I actually find very useful:
1. Pythagorean theorem
2. General rule of derivation
3. Four color theorem
4. Taylor's theorem
5. Binomial theorem
6. Fourier series
7. Dirac delta function
8. Brouwer fixed point theorem
9. Arrows impossibility theorem

>> No.9396305

>>9396299
Noether's theorem.

>> No.9396308

>>9396305
Yeah this one is nice too

>> No.9396310

Absolute value lemma blew my mind and load.

Like wow. |x| < y <=> -y < x < y. That's just beautiful. I always shed a tear.

>> No.9396317

>>9396310
All right but this is obvious to anyone with a brain

It says that you have two lines X and Y. X is shorter than Y.

>> No.9396332

>>9396317

No shit, it's a meme """lemma""" to teach brainlets how to prove triangle ineq in baby analysis. It's just the definition of AV written in such a way that even brainlets can see the connection.

>> No.9396341

>>9396299
[math]\exists y\forall x, p(y)\implies p(x)[/math]
it was formally proven in a logic class,
kinda like that there is a formal proof that we can prove something for an arbitrary y and then infer that it holds for all x.

>> No.9396344

that one about conditionally convergent series

>> No.9396352

>>9396299
[math] \int _{\partial \Omega} \omega = \int _{\Omega} d\omega[/math]

>> No.9396356

>>9396352
meanignless unless you defined what the fuck those 4 symbols mean

just like
abcd = fg

>> No.9396360

>>9396356
Yeah but everyone here knows what it means.

>> No.9396364

>>9396360
Explain to a chemistry brainlet?

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>>9396299
I am a mathematician myself but nothing I've learnt has come close to the Noether theorem. It is so simple but when you start reading QFT you realise just how important symmetry is. I think it should be at least mentioned in schools.

I also remember being excited by the Gleason theorem (on density operators) and the Frobenius theorem (on R/C/H algebras) in uni. More recently, I can finally appreciate the beauty of the Atiyah–Singer theorem on analytical/topological indices.

>> No.9396386

>Noether's theorem
>Noether
>No ether

Fucking anti-ether fags still trying. Ether will prevail.

>> No.9396418

>>9396364
It's stoke's theorem, look it up. lots of applications

>> No.9396425
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9396425

>Gödel's completeness theorem
Huh, thats really interesting I guess
>Gödel's incomplentess theorem
OVER THE LINE

>> No.9396428

>>9396299
>the inverse function theorem and the chain rule
hands down, those are the two theorems making any theory involving differentiable manifolds possible

>> No.9396429

1+2+3+4+5+.... = -1/12

>> No.9396430

>>9396299
The well-ordering theorem. This transfinite stuff still looks a bit mathemagic to me.

>> No.9396436

cantor's diagonal

>> No.9396450

>>9396428
>inverse function theorem
>not Implicit function theorem which has the inverse function theorem as a corollary

>> No.9396459

The pigeon hole theorem.

If you have N holes... And N+1 pigeons...

...you cannot give own hole to each pigeon...

MIND = BLOWN

>> No.9396541
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>> No.9396562

OP posts bait thread.
But nobody falls for it.
I'm sorry OP.

>> No.9396565 [DELETED] 

>>9396562
fuck i thought i had seven syllables. wtf!

>> No.9396568 [DELETED] 

>>9396562
>>9396565
oh wait I did nobody is 3

>> No.9396588

Gij, j=0

>> No.9396602

>>9396450
they are completely equivalent. you can prove implicit f.t. from inverse f.t. easily

>> No.9396619

>>9396299
>Dold-Kan Correspondence
>Brown's representability theorem
Literally jaw dropping

>> No.9396691

>>9396356
>doesn't understand standard notation
>"muh meaningless!"

>> No.9396727

Cauchy's residue theorem is pretty neat, I guess.

>> No.9396734

>>9396299
Cij= (-1)^i+j * Mij

>> No.9397170

1+1/2+1/4+1/8+.... =/= infinity

>> No.9397206

>>9396429
that's wrong though

>> No.9397225 [DELETED] 

>>9396299
Nullstellensatz for obvious reasons

Also these >>9396619 , or moreover the Stable Dold-Kan which essentially includes both

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>>9396727

>residues

Complex analysis was a mistake

>> No.9397239

Not a theorem, but a principle from Linear Algebra. Shakes me to my core every time.

Every invertible linear transformation is just a change of basis matrix.

>> No.9397266

>>9397239
if you're studying math or physics, wait till you get to differential geometry, principal bundles stuff. shit's gonna blow your mind.

>> No.9397271

von neumann ergodic theorem

>> No.9397272

>>9397266
Doubtful. Those both read as weak. The linear thing really changed how I see physics and the universe. Principal bundles are... just things. Nothing follows, it's a definition.

>> No.9397346

>>9397272
There are interesting theorems for principle bundles.

For instance G-bundles w/ flat connection (over a space X) are in bijection with homomorphisms from the fundamental group of X to G.

I'm sure you can pick some physical significance out of that, considering gauge fields are connections on principle bundles.

>> No.9397359

>>9397346
>I'm sure you can pick some physical significance out of that
>I'm sure

meaning you haven't yet
meaning its a little bit less meaningful

>> No.9397363

>>9397359
I'm not a physicist, I know that what a physicist calls a gauge field is a connection on a principle bundle. But I don't know anything about the physics of gauge fields.

>> No.9397372

>>9397228
You can use them to calculate crazy integrals that you normally can't

>> No.9397378

>>9397372
That shit is beautiful. I came in the back of some chicks head in class when we went over it.

>> No.9397381

>>9397363
That's my point. You don't need to know anything about physics to understand the meaning of what I said. Knowing and understanding the math is the important part. Any linear transformation, ANY LINEAR TRANSFORMATION is just a change of basis matrix. Think about it. Push a car across a road? It never even moved. We just changed some perspective.

>> No.9397391

>>9397381
you're a dumbass. you don't realize the person you're speaking to knows and understands much more about all this than you'll ever do. you're saying meaningless shit.

>> No.9397440

>>9396299
Nullstellensatz

Kodaira Embedding

GAGA

>> No.9397467

>>9397391
t. highschool brainlet who browses this board thinking it makes him look smart

>> No.9397499

>>9397381
>Any linear transformation, ANY LINEAR TRANSFORMATION is just a change of basis matrix. Think about it. Push a car across a road? It never even moved. We just changed some perspective.
this logic is kind of misleading

>> No.9397506

>>9397499
brought me back to the old futurama episode where the ship moves the universe

>> No.9397530

>>9397381
>>9397506
DUDE, I bet you watch Rick and Morty, am I right?

>> No.9397542

>>9397506
a transformation and a change of coordinates are two very different things. just because they coincide in the very special case of R^n, it doesn't mean that they can be considered the same concept.

>> No.9397553

Ito's lemma
spectral theorem
Feynman-Kac formula

>> No.9397590

>>9397542
No, they aren't. So long as it's linear, and so long as it's invertible. Which I'll grant is pretty limiting, but hey. It's what OP was asking for.

>> No.9397597

>only having read one approach

>> No.9397651

Yoneda Lemma
Donaldson's Theorem

>>9397440
>>9396619
Patricians

>> No.9397664

>>9396356
Look at me I don't know what a manifold is, this is meaningless

>> No.9397740

>>9396386
kek

>> No.9397839

>>9397206
thats not wrong. just dont put that in your math or calculus test.

>> No.9397840

>>9396352
HNNNNNNNNG

>> No.9397854

One of my favourites is Weierstrass Factorization Theorem for Entire Functions.

My man Euler just assumed it's true cause it is too natural not to be.

>> No.9397858

>>9396459
Actually has some really cool applications if you take the time to read a combinatorics book

>> No.9398059

>>9396299
Euclid's Division Lemma

>> No.9398086

>>9396299
Godel's proof restored my faith in math

>> No.9398092

>>9396299
Brainlet

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>>9396541
>the CLiT theorem

>> No.9398098

>>9396374
I like this painting. Who's the artist?

>> No.9398392

Rao-Cramer bound, Stein's paradox.

>> No.9398832

>>9396356
same can be said of any theorem