The Hundred Greatest Theorems


	The Hundred Greatest Theorems

dkCreAtto

9-10-2007 5:49 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fa739fed-3251-494a-ba78-e7cb585b5c0b/2CF42E28-70E0-43EE-862A-34183D93410A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://personal.stevens.edu/~nkahl/Top100Theorems.html" href="http://personal.stevens.edu/~nkahl/Top100Theorems.html" style="font-size: 11px;">personal.stevens.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://personal.stevens.edu/~nkahl/Top100Theorems.html"><H1>The Hundred Greatest Theorems</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://personal.stevens.edu/~nkahl/Top100Theorems.html"><P>
The millenium seemed to spur a lot of people to compile "Top 100" or
"Best 100" lists of many things, including <A href="http://www.afionline.org/100movies" linkindex="0">movies</A> (by the American Film
Institute) and <A href="http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100best/novels.html" linkindex="1">books</A> 
(by the Modern Library). Mathematicians were not
immune, and at a mathematics conference in July, 1999, Paul and Jack Abad
presented their list of "The Hundred Greatest Theorems."  Their ranking 
is based on the following criteria:  "the place the theorem holds in
the literature, the quality of the proof, and the unexpectedness of the 
result."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://personal.stevens.edu/~nkahl/Top100Theorems.html"><P>
The list is of course as arbitrary as the movie and book list, but the
theorems here are all certainly worthy results.  I hope to over time
include links to the proofs of them all; for now, you'll have to content
yourself with the list itself and the biographies of the principals.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://personal.stevens.edu/~nkahl/Top100Theorems.html"><P>1</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://personal.stevens.edu/~nkahl/Top100Theorems.html"><P><A href="http://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/math/q1.html" linkindex="2" set="yes">The
	Irrationality of the Square Root of 2</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://personal.stevens.edu/~nkahl/Top100Theorems.html"><P><A href="http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html" linkindex="3" set="yes">Pythagoras</A> and his school</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://personal.stevens.edu/~nkahl/Top100Theorems.html"><P>500 B.C.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://personal.stevens.edu/~nkahl/Top100Theorems.html"><P>2</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://personal.stevens.edu/~nkahl/Top100Theorems.html"><P><A href="http://www.cut-the-knot.com/do_you_know/fundamental2.shtml" linkindex="4" set="yes">Fundamental
	Theorem of Algebra</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://personal.stevens.edu/~nkahl/Top100Theorems.html"><P><A href="http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Gauss.html" linkindex="5" set="yes">Karl Frederich Gauss</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://personal.stevens.edu/~nkahl/Top100Theorems.html"><P>1799</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://personal.stevens.edu/~nkahl/Top100Theorems.html"><P>3</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://personal.stevens.edu/~nkahl/Top100Theorems.html"><P><A href="http://www.shu.edu/html/teaching/math/reals/infinity/index.html" linkindex="6" set="yes">The
Denumerability of the Rational Numbers</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://personal.stevens.edu/~nkahl/Top100Theorems.html"><P><A href="http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Cantor.html" linkindex="7" set="yes">Georg Cantor</A></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2CF42E28-70E0-43EE-862A-34183D93410A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>