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Anonymous Sat 31 Aug 20:20:02 2019 No.10933469 View Reply Original Report

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What's your favorite argument in a proof?

Mine is Cantor's diagonal argument. It is simple, and makes you shit a brick when you see how versatile and powerful it is.

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Anonymous Sat 31 Aug 2019 20:27:38 No.10933489 Report

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Gotta be Mochizuki's proof of the abc conjecture. It seems like such a daunting proof but when you finally understand the crux of it its so simple and elegant that you want slap yourself in the face. I seriously couldn't believe I hadn't thought of it myself when I first read through it, then I realized I never could have; sometimes it takes a true genius to recognize that a universal and intuitive truth was lying right below our noses his whole time.

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Anonymous Sat 31 Aug 2019 20:34:11 No.10933500 Report

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>Mine is Cantor's diagonal argument. It is simple, and makes you shit a brick when you see how versatile and powerful it is.

+1 for Cantor's diagonal argument. It's essentially the same argument that is used to prove the undecidability of the halting problem and Gödel first incompleteness theorem.

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