This is a collection of succinct but wonderfully satisfying theorems. Leave a comment if you have a good one!
The punchlines are hidden; try to guess the blanks or toggle “spoilers”.
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(Liouville’s theorem)
A bounded complex differentiable function is constant. -
(Cauchy’s integral theorem)
The integral of a holomorphic function around a loop vanishes identically. -
A complete ordered field is the real line.
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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.