This is a collection of succinct but wonderfully satisfying theorems. Leave a comment if you have a good one!
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Liouville’s theorem
A bounded complex differentiable function is constant. -
Jordan normal form
A matrix is similar to an upper triangular matrix. -
Cauchy’s integral theorem
The integral of a holomorphic function around a loop vanishes identically. -
Riemann Mapping Theorem
Strict subsets of \(ℂ\) which are nonempty, open, and simply connected are related by a conformal mapping. -
A complete ordered field is the real line.
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Every field is a subfield of the surreal numbers.
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Cayley’s theorem
All groups are permutation groups. -
Lagrange’s theorem
The order of a finite group is divisible by the orders of its subgroups. -
Fundamental theorem of finite Abelian groups
A finite Abelian group is a direct sum of prime-order cyclic groups. -
The \(ℤ\)-modules are exactly the Abelian groups.
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Cayley–Hamilton theorem
A square matrix satisfies its own characteristic polynomial. -
Green–Tao theorem
There are arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of primes. -
Dirichlet’s Theorem
Every proper arithmetic sequence contains infinitely many primes. -
Two random infinite graphs are isomorphic with probability one.