Haiku Proof
by Mike
Image meta text: "After somewhere around 40 hours, there's no academic reason to go to the class. Only go for the hallucinations."
The Greek mathematician Euclid proved there are an infinite number of primes (though not through haiku). Basically, you start by assuming the opposite- that there are a finite number of primes. Multiply all of them together and add 1. Then you ask what are the factors of that new number. It's not divisible by any of the primes because it would yield a remainder of 1... so either there is a prime number you forgot that wasn't in your original set or this new number is prime. In either case, you just proved the set of primes can not be finite.
Also, there's no proof that after 48 hours of sleep deprivation math lectures get ANY more interesting.
December 25th, 2011
They don’t get more interesting, just utterly beyond comprehension. It got to the point where the prof had to reiterate an 8th-grade algebra principle to some dunce in the back row…and I was listening in and could not make head or tail of it.
December 29th, 2011
Note that Q.E.D. stands for the latin “quod erat demonstrandum” and commonly signifies the end of a mathematical proof.