Proofs in University Maths be like... [ Math Joke Video ] [ Best of invalid proof techniques ] Part1

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  • @quocanhhbui8271
    @quocanhhbui8271 Před 5 lety +9933

    Proof by necessity: Since the statement is on the exam and it asks us to prove it’s true then it must be true.

    • @YounesLayachi
      @YounesLayachi Před 5 lety +337

      OMFG 😂

    • @romasromas73
      @romasromas73 Před 5 lety +839

      In an exam we were asked to prove that a statement is true, while it was clearly false. Turns out the guy who made the exam made a mistake LOL

    • @cern1999sb
      @cern1999sb Před 5 lety +416

      Not necessarily. I've had exam questions where the lecturer intentionally asked us to prove incorrect statements, and to get the marks, we need to realise that it was not provable and say why

    • @SimonClarkstone
      @SimonClarkstone Před 5 lety +345

      "Prove or disprove 2 of the following 3 statements."
      (One is provable in half a page, one disprovable with a small counterexample, and the remaining one is equivalent to the Riemann Hypothesis.)

    • @alephnull4044
      @alephnull4044 Před 4 lety +7

      LOL

  • @johnredberg
    @johnredberg Před 5 lety +2679

    You forgot everyone's favorite: Proof by leaving it as an exercise to the reader. (Usually solved by "well I guess it must be true then".)

    • @mennoltvanalten7260
      @mennoltvanalten7260 Před 4 lety +25

      *calculus seperate vector reader flashback*
      (our calculus course uses a terrible reader made by a professor to teach vector stuff, but it doesn't tell you how anything works, it just gives you a few examples for common exercise types and then exercises to practice)

    • @QuettaHertz
      @QuettaHertz Před 4 lety +12

      Spivak Calculus Bruh.
      Are proffs are trivial and is homework for students

    • @patternwhisperer4048
      @patternwhisperer4048 Před 4 lety +38

      Paid 69 bucks for a book on data base theory. Half the proofs are left to the reader. I mean yo what am I paying you for :(

    • @chaossspy6723
      @chaossspy6723 Před 4 lety +3

      Give this man an award

    • @word6344
      @word6344 Před rokem +1

      @@patternwhisperer4048 only good justification for that price is the fact that it's 69

  • @m3131m
    @m3131m Před 5 lety +5611

    2+2=4
    2*2=4
    2^2=4
    Therefore x+x=x*x=x^x
    Proof by example 😇

    • @thelightningwave
      @thelightningwave Před 5 lety +417

      You forgot tetration. 2 tetrated 2 =4

    • @rafciopranks3570
      @rafciopranks3570 Před 5 lety +215

      Now we've got serious problem
      What's the secound answer for x^x=x+x

    • @gamma_dablam
      @gamma_dablam Před 5 lety +61

      Rafcio Pranks as per Desmos it appears to be irrational. You could use Newton’s method to approximate this value though if you can differentiate x^x (not too hard, just has a novel first step)

    • @karolakkolo123
      @karolakkolo123 Před 5 lety +44

      @@rafciopranks3570 you can solve it using the lambert W function, and get an exact answer. In fact you can develop an exact answer for all expressions of the type a^x + bx = c, where a and b are
      either constant or x's, and c is a constant.
      Edit: c *and* a actually have to be constants, cannot be x. So actually x^x=x+x specifically is not possible to get with the Lambert W. But there has to be at least one more value besides 2 for which it holds, you will have to find it numerically :)

    • @rafciopranks3570
      @rafciopranks3570 Před 5 lety +8

      I tried to use a Labert W fuction but it didn't help. Also Wolfram Alpha couldn't give me an exact answer. Is it possible though?

  • @hasnakhan2436
    @hasnakhan2436 Před 5 lety +2675

    “Why don’t they just write a python script and check a lot of numbers”
    ~ every scientist ever

    • @panc4kes276
      @panc4kes276 Před 4 lety +111

      Lol I did that for my homework

    • @whetfaartz6685
      @whetfaartz6685 Před 4 lety +8

      @@panc4kes276 same lol

    • @pravinrao3669
      @pravinrao3669 Před 4 lety +41

      I did it with java when i did not know calculus to get formula for electric potential from electric force.

    • @__jan
      @__jan Před 4 lety +36

      i just did that for the "you can sum any two primes to form any even integer" problem and it's kind of weird how there's no even integers missing until 1832

    • @dragonsdream4236
      @dragonsdream4236 Před 4 lety +59

      @@__jan then you made a mistake or you are a legend who just disproved the goldbach conjecture

  • @isaacstamper7798
    @isaacstamper7798 Před 5 lety +2672

    Integration by prayer

  • @t.e.fcastle1069
    @t.e.fcastle1069 Před 5 lety +3312

    You totally missed proof by axiomatization, if you can't prove it then it should be an axiom

  • @joshuaz7434
    @joshuaz7434 Před 4 lety +565

    Proof by engineering: if it's close enough, it's proven.

    • @asificare7985
      @asificare7985 Před 3 lety +10

      Why be right when you can just approximate?

    • @kosmasfostinis8017
      @kosmasfostinis8017 Před 2 lety +1

      Not for German speaking engineers 😅

    • @hpsmash77
      @hpsmash77 Před 2 lety +1

      please define close enough 😅

    • @hpsmash77
      @hpsmash77 Před 2 lety

      @@kosmasfostinis8017 😂😅

    • @ano_nym
      @ano_nym Před rokem +3

      @@hpsmash77 it doesn't break, good enough.

  • @AndrewDotsonvideos
    @AndrewDotsonvideos Před 5 lety +2230

    I can't help but feel like some of these were referencing me but I can't put my finger on it.

    • @PriXXifiaction
      @PriXXifiaction Před 5 lety +265

      I guess your assumption then can't be proven by intuition tho, bruh

    • @PriXXifiaction
      @PriXXifiaction Před 5 lety +62

      Love the contents of you two!
      Greetings from a swiss nanophysics student :D

    • @xriccardo1831
      @xriccardo1831 Před 5 lety +116

      "Hey mr Dotson", "Yes Andrew?"

    • @edwardlucas7037
      @edwardlucas7037 Před 5 lety +7

      😂😂😂

    • @silentinferno2382
      @silentinferno2382 Před 5 lety +57

      No he was talking about Mr Andrew Nostod and Dr Werdna Dotson

  • @redvel5042
    @redvel5042 Před 5 lety +1766

    "epsilon less than or equal to zero"
    I truly am intimidated.

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 Před 4 lety +106

      They took epsilon so small that epsilon^2 was negative. With that epsilon they proved the Riemann hypothesis.

    • @sals4659
      @sals4659 Před 4 lety +3

      @@u.v.s.5583 Wait how?

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 Před 4 lety +26

      @@sals4659 They even made a documentary movie about it, called The Proof.

    • @sals4659
      @sals4659 Před 4 lety

      @@u.v.s.5583 I'll check it out, thanks!

    • @loturzelrestaurant
      @loturzelrestaurant Před 3 lety +1

      Top Information Channel:
      VICE.
      Just sayin'!

  • @duailyp5142
    @duailyp5142 Před 5 lety +2053

    wtf he solved the p=np

    • @orjhyu3v2ehv3h
      @orjhyu3v2ehv3h Před 5 lety +303

      And the Reimann Hypothesis too.

    • @rorycannon7295
      @rorycannon7295 Před 4 lety +130

      *wait, thats illegal*

    • @Dezomm
      @Dezomm Před 4 lety +119

      someone call Clay Mathematics Institute they owe this man a million dollars

    • @rafaelplugge3214
      @rafaelplugge3214 Před 4 lety +61

      @@Pi-bz1dn shutup Andrew we are done here!

    • @alexzanderroberts995
      @alexzanderroberts995 Před 4 lety +45

      @@rafaelplugge3214 proof of intimidation:

  • @contrail52
    @contrail52 Před 5 lety +850

    Proof by "I couldn't fit the proof in the margin of my book so just trust me dude"

  • @TheKahiron
    @TheKahiron Před 5 lety +257

    I tend to prefer the "the proof for this is quite lengthy, so you'll just have to trust me on this" and "the proof is left as an exercise to the student".

  • @ryanalving3785
    @ryanalving3785 Před 4 lety +366

    I was reading my Chemistry textbook and there was a rather funny part where they described the process for synthesizing I think Aluminum electrochemically. It was basically "if you set up a system like this, unknown reactions will result in Aluminum collecting at the bottom, which we can siphon off to use industrially."
    Or in layman's terms "then a miracle occurs"

    • @WralthChardiceVideo
      @WralthChardiceVideo Před rokem +21

      I mean thats kinda how physics explains being able to look through glass even though there is no real coherent structure to the crystal

    • @jameson1239
      @jameson1239 Před rokem +1

      Can you tell me the textbook please I kind of want to show that to a friend of mine

    • @ryanalving3785
      @ryanalving3785 Před rokem

      @jameson1239
      Unfortunately I forget the name of the textbook, as it's been several years

    • @jameson1239
      @jameson1239 Před rokem

      @@ryanalving3785 fair

  • @nathandaniel5451
    @nathandaniel5451 Před 4 lety +202

    The "proof by picture" triggered me because at uni we had to solve some really basic algebra problems and I did all the working out and showed concise proof, the professor accepted a hand-drawn graph as a justification of other students' answers.

    • @hpsmash77
      @hpsmash77 Před 2 lety +5

      I mean its still valid

    • @ano_nym
      @ano_nym Před rokem +4

      It was probably a good exercise though.
      Reminds me a bit when we wrote a report after a project. Two friends wrote like 20 pages, sitting up to early morning the last night. Me and another friend wrote 4... All of us passed.

  • @ElColombre27360
    @ElColombre27360 Před 5 lety +3159

    You forgot the most common ones:
    -- The proof is trivial.
    -- The proof is perfectly analogous to the previous one (except it is not, LOL).
    -- The proof is left for the careful student to exercise.
    Edit: suck(0).

    • @ivanlazaro7444
      @ivanlazaro7444 Před 5 lety +117

      Or "The author of this notes does not have a proof on the statement yet"

    • @mikhailmikhailov8781
      @mikhailmikhailov8781 Před 5 lety +104

      @@ivanlazaro7444 Is that method called proof by honesty?

    • @ElColombre27360
      @ElColombre27360 Před 5 lety +158

      @@ivanlazaro7444 "The author does not have enough space here to write the proof, but it's not difficult"... does it sound familiar? 😂😂😂

    • @kingplunger6033
      @kingplunger6033 Před 5 lety +25

      Those 3 give me nightmares

    • @Assault_Butter_Knife
      @Assault_Butter_Knife Před 5 lety +89

      Another good one is proof by inaccessible literature

  • @sleepplease9021
    @sleepplease9021 Před 5 lety +801

    I like how Andrew is every character

  • @kwirny
    @kwirny Před 5 lety +995

    Proof by intuition is what i always use, really powerfull.

    • @livedandletdie
      @livedandletdie Před 5 lety +86

      I prefer proof by intimidation... After all, nothing dares defy me when I take off my shoes after a hard days work...

    • @Tonatsi
      @Tonatsi Před 5 lety +8

      Flammable Maths I use proof by God

  • @jaakethedude7971
    @jaakethedude7971 Před 4 lety +338

    How come has no one made the timestamp?
    0:18 Direct Proof
    1:03 Proof by Contradiction
    1:54 Proof by Approximation
    2:29 Proof by Intimidation
    3:57 Proof by Voting
    4:49 Proof by Example
    5:31 Proof by Intuition
    5:59 Proof by Higher Authority
    6:46 Proof by Resignation
    7:00 Proof by Picture
    7:48 Proof by Mutual Reference
    9:09 Proof by Accumulated Evidence

  • @attila3028
    @attila3028 Před 5 lety +178

    my high school math teacher proved that lim sinx/x is 1 when x->0 by plotting the graph with computer.

  • @luchisevera1808
    @luchisevera1808 Před 5 lety +431

    1. Small comment. The rest is followed by InDuCtIoN.
    2. Paper sets out to prove theorem in 200 pages. The actual proof is somewhere on page 69 and the rest is proving theorems related or even unrelated to the proof.
    3. This proof is trivial, so it can be assigned as classwork. Don't be confused if it keeps getting referenced throughout the course.
    4. Is that an s or a 5? Is that a c or a C, v or V, p or P, k or K...?
    5. What is this used for and why are we doing this?
    6. If unsure about the proof, reference these gucci antique monolith stones that predate the modern era.
    7. The notation is different in this paper than every other paper in history.
    8. [Famous mathematician] said it, so why question it?
    9. Circular argument... -> contradiction!

  • @turkergoktas777
    @turkergoktas777 Před 5 lety +1029

    Engineering proof:
    Are we in 20 percent margin?
    Then its true lul.

    • @bahadrozturk2086
      @bahadrozturk2086 Před 5 lety +4

      Ne kadar kırıcı bir davranış

    • @jackyoung8354
      @jackyoung8354 Před 5 lety +2

      Bahadır Öztürk ne diyon olm sjkdkdldjd

    • @aasyjepale5210
      @aasyjepale5210 Před 4 lety +20

      Ah yes the margin of 2048 orders of magnitude
      Once I was calculating when two neutrons that are on the opposite edges of the observable universe collide, I accidentally slipped in the mass of the milky way and instead of the gravitational constant I used the inverse of planck time, also as radius I decided to use your dads pp length (which is pretty small even if I say so myself). I was happy that my answer was within the accepted margin, barely but still

  • @forklift1712
    @forklift1712 Před 4 lety +53

    "Prove the value of pi to five decimals."
    Proof by calculator: It says 3.1415926536, so I just round to get 3.14159. QED.

  • @EddieLF
    @EddieLF Před 5 lety +320

    You forgot "Proof by 'this proof is outside the scope of this paper'" :^)

  • @phscience797
    @phscience797 Před 5 lety +314

    I also know some:
    1. In my classes, proof by intimidation is done differently:
    -Andrew: “I didn’t quite get why this proves our theorem...”
    -Prof: “If you didn’t even understand that, you’re probably in the wrong course!”
    2. Proof by axiom: “This property seems so nice, let’s consider it as a prerequisite to doing maths.”
    3. indirect proof without contradiction: assume a statement is true and conclude that it must be true.
    4. My favourite one: => ◾️.

    • @angelmendez-rivera351
      @angelmendez-rivera351 Před 5 lety +31

      "indirect proof by contradiction" *It's possible that this conjecture is true. Therefore, it must be true. Therefore, it is true. Q.E.D.*

    • @angelmendez-rivera351
      @angelmendez-rivera351 Před 5 lety +6

      Finian Blackett I know. I've studied them. The only serious argument that does this, though, is the ontological argument, but I find that argument to be so flawed it does not deserve the name "argument".

    • @BygoneT
      @BygoneT Před 5 lety +25

      @@angelmendez-rivera351 It is possible for me to have the perfect bank account with enough money to be the richest person on earth, and not break the economy.
      If the bank account didn't exist, it would not be perfect which by definition it must be.
      Therefore the bank account exists.

    • @angelmendez-rivera351
      @angelmendez-rivera351 Před 5 lety +15

      Marvelous Quasar Pork Man DAMN, U right. I've been defeated. I will now submit to our Lord and Savior the Perfect Bank Account.
      Wait, how do I even offer sacrifices to this bank account lol

    • @eklhaft4531
      @eklhaft4531 Před 4 lety +1

      Proof by looking and seeing.

  • @zacharyahearn4069
    @zacharyahearn4069 Před 3 lety +44

    My favorite proof that I saw in a math book “The proof by induction over n is quite straightforward, but also quite tedious and thus omitted, an illustration for case n = 3 is given in the figure below.”

  • @istvanszennai5209
    @istvanszennai5209 Před 4 lety +62

    one of my teachers at the university:
    “[...] and so this is the axiom we are going to work with. Now let’s prove the axiom first.” And he proved the axiom...

    • @istvanszennai5209
      @istvanszennai5209 Před 4 lety +6

      yea well, the subject he was teaching was also boring and completely useless (some kind of formalized programming theory, but had nothing to do with maths or programming). He also didn’t provide any supporting material. Some of the students took photos of his slides so we could at least prepare for the exam somehow...
      I was of course sleeping 😄 On the exam I had the formulae printed on a cheat sheet in ASCII, so I had no idea what they meant and how to write them down to begin with 🤣 I still passed tho, probably because deep down he felt that he was teaching BS to us and my ‘ASCII art’ reflected on that.

  • @Games-mw1wd
    @Games-mw1wd Před 5 lety +22

    We have
    e^(Pi * i) = -1
    Squaring both sides gives
    e^(2 * Pi * i) = 1
    Simplify i*i
    e^(-2 * P) = 1
    Take the natural log of both sides
    -2 * P = 0
    Therefore
    P = 0
    So for all N, we have
    P = NP
    QED

  • @kamehamehey22615
    @kamehamehey22615 Před 5 lety +83

    In graph theory, there were proofs by picture, one of which was also a proof by finger pointing. It make sense since graph theory is so visual and hard to represent abstractly/generally. A common frustration with a graph theory student trying to prove something (myself included) is "... but I can't draw it!" It can really mess with your brain.

    • @bohanxu6125
      @bohanxu6125 Před rokem +6

      You can claim you proved it by visualizing it in 13 dimensions in your brain, but it's too hard to draw it out.

  • @alephnull6965
    @alephnull6965 Před 5 lety +79

    Proof by "I don't need to know the proof I just need to be able to apply it"

  • @mrbobtehbuildah
    @mrbobtehbuildah Před 5 lety +762

    You forgot the other trivial case of P=0.
    Please educate yourself on trivialites.

    • @jessicawang6558
      @jessicawang6558 Před 5 lety +80

      Last time I checked, Alan Turing himself disproved that P=0 in his essay referencing the Entscheidungsproblem, since it is trivial that the time it takes for Andrew to become a genius is Polynomial.

    • @mrbobtehbuildah
      @mrbobtehbuildah Před 5 lety +16

      @@jessicawang6558 top banter

    • @gregoriousmaths266
      @gregoriousmaths266 Před 4 lety +3

      Lmao

  • @aryamanmishra154
    @aryamanmishra154 Před 5 lety +146

    Our genius papa flammy will win 1 million for P vs NP.

  • @gregoryfenn1462
    @gregoryfenn1462 Před 5 lety +287

    Let N = 1, therefore P = NP
    Computer scientists be like “you missed the point”
    Mathematicians be like “whoosh”

    • @I_like_pi_
      @I_like_pi_ Před 5 lety +48

      Don't forget P=0.

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 Před 4 lety +34

      Ok. Let N=1. = 1.0000. There you have your POINT. Satisfied now?

    • @ramdamdam1402
      @ramdamdam1402 Před 4 lety +2

      Pinnacle of comedy

  • @chlo_z7566
    @chlo_z7566 Před 4 lety +45

    Proof by re-writing: The statement proves itself in the exam question thus re-writing the question proves the statement.

  • @BraighGaming
    @BraighGaming Před 5 lety +805

    Papa I think you got your proof by contradiction wrong. The negation of "you momma fat & geh" is "you momma not fat OR not geh". That's just basic logic mate, smh

    • @SirZafiro
      @SirZafiro Před 5 lety +317

      He didn't say "not fat and not gay", which would be wrong, he said "not (fat and gay)", which is indeed the negation

    • @EpicMathTime
      @EpicMathTime Před 5 lety +75

      negation of thing is always not-thing.

    • @unflexian
      @unflexian Před 5 lety +19

      Demorgan delight.
      Also now I gotta delete my comment that says the same thing that I wrote before I read this one
      uwu

    • @BraighGaming
      @BraighGaming Před 5 lety +12

      @@SirZafiro Thanks for your input, appreciate ya

    • @dppid083wk7
      @dppid083wk7 Před 5 lety +19

      modus pornens

  • @tomasblovsky5871
    @tomasblovsky5871 Před 5 lety +102

    Riemann hypothesis - the proof is trivial.

  • @donati880
    @donati880 Před 5 lety +62

    All my professors: "hope no one notices i don't know what i'm doing"
    hahahahahaha love these videos, never stop making them!

  • @deusvult5738
    @deusvult5738 Před 5 lety +155

    Some epsilon less than or equals to zero.
    Mathemathicians: *reèeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

  • @parjitkhakh6970
    @parjitkhakh6970 Před 4 lety +27

    "If you add smaller and smaller parts together, for sure it's not going to infinity."
    Harmonic Series: *am I a joke to you?*

    • @tomtlrech1392
      @tomtlrech1392 Před 3 lety +2

      "How about we make it flippy-floppy?"
      "Why would that affect convergence, it makes no..."
      "..."
      "Yeah okay"

    • @mineantoine1248
      @mineantoine1248 Před rokem

      ln

  • @user-vp7in7bk7z
    @user-vp7in7bk7z Před 4 lety +27

    It's funny because when you are trying to prove something on an exam you immediatly lose half of your iq points

  • @twistedsector
    @twistedsector Před 5 lety +152

    Only big bois noticed the Wii music in the background

  • @TheNinjaDwarfBiker
    @TheNinjaDwarfBiker Před 5 lety +64

    I hope a random student came in around 4:25 to see the big dong theorem on the board

    • @dexter2392
      @dexter2392 Před 5 lety +22

      The dong is smooth along the bruh-axis

  • @taylormcfarland3623
    @taylormcfarland3623 Před 4 lety +12

    My man walks in to see if his friend wants coffee and he’s got a piece of chalk in his hand. Math people are wild.

  • @ErkaaJ
    @ErkaaJ Před 5 lety +24

    Proof by Exercise: Claim it is a trivial exercise and let someone else prove it.

    • @user-vp7in7bk7z
      @user-vp7in7bk7z Před 4 lety

      Since the proof is trivial is left as an exercice for the teacher.

  • @enoua5222
    @enoua5222 Před 3 lety +10

    As a CS student, the "proof by accumulated evidence" called me out so hard

  • @enochsadventures
    @enochsadventures Před 5 lety +82

    I have evidence the earf iz flat:
    for small values of y=sqrt(1-x^2) is equal to y=1 a flat noncurved line, check mate atheists.
    circle = line (proof by desmos graphs). QED

    • @enochsadventures
      @enochsadventures Před 5 lety +7

      @FAT cat implying globes even exist what a noob.
      you can't have gravity without spheroids and there is no proof they exist DUH ;)

  • @HolyMith
    @HolyMith Před 4 lety +128

    Proof by existence of proof: Everything must have a proof, even if no one is smart enough to find it. QED.

    • @thetrickster42
      @thetrickster42 Před 4 lety +6

      HolyMith bizarrely man, your comment doesn’t belong here
      math.stackexchange.com/questions/1642225/proving-the-existence-of-a-proof-without-actually-giving-a-proof

    • @funkfusiontale
      @funkfusiontale Před rokem +1

      Actually the right statement was proven that some true statements (in a consistent system of axioms, for example arithmetic) cannot be proven. I refer to Gödel's incompleteness theorems

  • @Mejayy
    @Mejayy Před rokem +6

    3:24 I love that the implicit funct theorem:
    Starts with eps

  • @jiaming5269
    @jiaming5269 Před 5 lety +131

    succ(0)st

  • @z01t4n
    @z01t4n Před 5 lety +56

    Proof by Wolfram Alpha; they say it's unsolvable, so it is!

  • @hekatenone3234
    @hekatenone3234 Před 4 lety +26

    Another important technique is the 'proof by spy' where you access last year's (or another student's) solution where they say that the statement holds.

  • @kuzuma4523
    @kuzuma4523 Před 5 lety +25

    Did you just dare to say my harmonic series converges exactly on the day I had my analysis 2 final?
    Nvm we all deeply know that the epsilon equal or less than zero was worst and probably some kids died just because of that

  • @jonahmann
    @jonahmann Před 4 lety +4

    Proof by collusion
    In exam: Hey bro. How do you prove number 3?

  • @MathematicsOptimization
    @MathematicsOptimization Před 5 lety +70

    Proof by continuously dabbing in a livestream for 30 minutes straight

  • @KidNamedVashin
    @KidNamedVashin Před 5 lety +213

    Bruh, you don't write QED after your proofs? Bro, that's kinda cringe...

  • @peterbrough2461
    @peterbrough2461 Před 5 lety +51

    Proof by Exhaustion
    "... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..." und so weiter

  • @danielalfonso-travieso3582

    For the statement being proved at 1:02 , the negation of "Your momma is fat and gay" would be "Your momma is not fat or not gay", which would then divulge into cases, both being trivial as it's obvious that that both cases are false.

  • @giovanidl9695
    @giovanidl9695 Před 5 lety +62

    3:11 engineers be like "1 hour later"

    • @matron9936
      @matron9936 Před 4 lety

      Giovani DL proof by approximation

    • @lilliaplayer9439
      @lilliaplayer9439 Před 2 lety

      I'm studying engineering and I literally said in my head "that's kinda one hour later" XD

  • @kingceiri
    @kingceiri Před 4 lety +11

    i really like the theorem at 6:57. It is very straight forward if you understand numbers. It is also a good mental exercise for someone who has never thought of something like it.

  • @Fujibayashi50
    @Fujibayashi50 Před 5 lety +66

    "Jaja, mach ruhig, alles gut"
    glugg glugg gluCC

    • @allmycircuits8850
      @allmycircuits8850 Před 5 lety +8

      If one exchanges all epsilons and deltas in Calculus book (deltas instead of epsilons and vice-versa), all the definitions and proofs would still be correct, but most of mathematicians would have VERY HARD time trying to read it :)

    • @angelmendez-rivera351
      @angelmendez-rivera351 Před 5 lety +4

      AllMyCircuits Holy crap that is hilarious to think about. Someone should actually do this.

  • @jonathanlevy9635
    @jonathanlevy9635 Před 5 lety +80

    P=NP
    Assume N=1
    LOL🤣🤣🤣

  • @VijayRana-qg2gz
    @VijayRana-qg2gz Před 5 lety +25

    6:57 every one trying to prove Goldbach conjecture with highschool math 3 in the morning

  • @dylanparker130
    @dylanparker130 Před 4 lety +10

    one of my favourite profs taught mathematical physics - his approach was to outline his proof on the blackboard before turning to the class & nodding his head very quickly!
    PS proof by higher authority made me think of the reimann hypothesis xD

  • @mueezadam8438
    @mueezadam8438 Před 4 lety +9

    Proof by apathy: It’s probably true, therefore it’s true.
    Boom. Suddenly you prove: The Riemann Hypothesis, Goldbach Conjecture, and whatever you want- all in one stroke!

  • @Entropize1
    @Entropize1 Před 4 lety +2

    Proof by large, strangely shaped commuting diagrams, and proof by example if the example is sufficiently general (usually after a small lecture on how proof by example doesn't work, but it will suffice in this case).

  • @andreaiacco18
    @andreaiacco18 Před 3 lety +4

    Proof by tautology: let's assume the statement is true, then it's true. QED.

  • @WestonMurdock
    @WestonMurdock Před 3 lety +7

    We just covered the Implicit Function Theorem in my analysis class and I feel that part so hard now lmaoooooo

    • @PapaFlammy69
      @PapaFlammy69  Před 3 lety +3

      :'D

    • @tomtlrech1392
      @tomtlrech1392 Před 3 lety +1

      Always a pleasure to meet a fellow homestuck sucked into the joyous world of mathematics

  • @EpicMathTime
    @EpicMathTime Před 5 lety +7

    Proof by intimidation works well when you're absolutely shredded.

  • @juliangalindo3440
    @juliangalindo3440 Před 5 lety +3

    Proof by
    esthetic: It seems so beautiful and simple that it has to be true.

  • @An_Amazing_Login5036
    @An_Amazing_Login5036 Před 5 lety +19

    I usually use the proof by beauty.
    It has worked for phycisists and philosophers before, why not math?
    Bonus:
    You can disprove the Riemann-conjecture by simple use of Murphys law.
    The proof is left as an exercise for the student.

  • @dragonflyerstern156
    @dragonflyerstern156 Před 4 lety +4

    You missed:" that is homwork and you can proof it by yourself and it is so easy and we have no time for this" every Student:"Yeah sure we have no Hobbys except math"

  • @intellectualize6354
    @intellectualize6354 Před 5 lety +6

    8:44 how to be the first mathematician to ever prove a false theorem in their PhD thesis

  • @mathosopher119
    @mathosopher119 Před 5 lety +2

    You have advanced the mathematical methods by at least a thousand years

  • @arnavrawat9864
    @arnavrawat9864 Před rokem +4

    Proof by acts of divinity
    "It was revealed to me in a dream"

  • @hoodedR
    @hoodedR Před 5 lety +2

    I love these skits Papa, loved you dropping greatest the unproved problems in math and just destroying them

  • @Hyparbeem526
    @Hyparbeem526 Před 5 lety +3

    On a number theory exam, I once proved that the number of partitions of n into odd parts was the same as the number of partitions of n into distinct parts by drawing Ferrers diagrams. I didn't get full credit, but I got most of it. So there's an example of proof by pictures (somewhat, I did have to write some shit).

  • @spacetimemalleable7718
    @spacetimemalleable7718 Před 4 lety +1

    You forgot: This is so obvious and clear, I leave it up to you. Next Question!

  • @bjhhar1233
    @bjhhar1233 Před 5 lety +3

    "Why don't I make a python script and check a bunch of numbers"
    so relatable hah

  • @alikhalid4677
    @alikhalid4677 Před 5 lety +2

    3:36 That was a fucking clever way of giving a shout out to andrew dostson

  • @luck3949
    @luck3949 Před 4 lety +4

    Proof without help of the lecturer:
    "If you don't know how to prove this, you can come to me after the lecture, and I will help you to withdraw your documents from this university".
    Happened on calculus 2 in my uni, lol.

  • @sjpbrooklyn7699
    @sjpbrooklyn7699 Před rokem

    This riddle was popular at MIT many years ago. Q. How do you tell a mathematician from a physicist from an engineer? A. Ask them to prove that all odd numbers are prime. The mathematician says “1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, and the rest follows by induction.” The physicist says, “1, 3, 5, and 7 are prime, 9 is experimental error, 11 and 13 are prime, and the rest follows by induction.” The engineer says, “1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime, and the rest follows by induction.” Probably less amusing for engineers.

  • @sionae1967
    @sionae1967 Před 5 lety +3

    2:30 you say "today's a.n.a.l. class"? I didn't see you like that papa, my whole childhood is destroyed :'(

  • @Dr.1.
    @Dr.1. Před 2 lety +1

    I'm not even joking I asked why matrix multiplication is associative but the teacher he just yelled at me to see the examples and try them and prove this. In my mind I was screaming, "oops am I in the science class"

  • @Arcanefungus
    @Arcanefungus Před 4 lety +4

    Proof by imitation: Just copy whatever a person who seems to know what theyre doing is writing

  • @Einhamer
    @Einhamer Před 4 lety +2

    I've never had a good time making proofs, because i've never need them (I study systems engineering), but now a teacher leave me as homework to prove 9 (simple) vectorial analisis problems, things like "prove that these vectors coincide at some point" and things like that.... buts i just CAN'T make it!... And suddenly, this video apears and shows me that not even mathematicians are always good at proofs.

  • @hey4067
    @hey4067 Před 5 lety +17

    6:35 that's how we do here in france

  • @chemicalfiend101
    @chemicalfiend101 Před 5 lety +12

    The background music is from the Wii Mii creation tool right? Nostalgia...

  • @diegotejada55
    @diegotejada55 Před 5 lety +3

    You know, if I hadn't taken my first proofs classes this year, I would've probably thought the first one was an exaggeration

  • @SambarAbbayi
    @SambarAbbayi Před 5 lety +2

    I love your videos! The way you present math is really charismatic. I look forward to learning more with you. :)

  • @gdsfish3214
    @gdsfish3214 Před 5 lety +5

    Yeah these proofs by intuition definetly screwed me over...
    There's a reason why something is called just differientiable and not always continuously differientiable

  • @drskk4652
    @drskk4652 Před 4 lety +4

    7:07 Ahh the classic theorem of engineering: Sin(x)=x.

  • @piercingspear2922
    @piercingspear2922 Před 4 lety +3

    I am a physics major and even though it was physics, the math is very hardcore. One of our assignments was to proof why is
    -(-1)=1....

  • @1234Daan4321
    @1234Daan4321 Před 4 lety

    Proof by Complication:
    Theorem: 1+1=2
    Proof:
    ln(sqrt(lim n-> infinity (1+2/n)^n)) + sin^2(x) +cos^2(x) = integral from t=0 to pi: sin(t)dt
    Note that lim n-> infinity (1+2/n)^n = e^2. So ln(sqrt(e^2)) = 1.
    sin^2(x) + cos^2(x) = 1
    And the integral from 0 to pi of sin(t)dt = 2
    Therefore 1+1=2, q.e.d.

  • @tomaszgruszka3845
    @tomaszgruszka3845 Před 4 lety +4

    3:50 I actually say "Q. E. F***ING. D" every time I finish a homework proof

  • @xDanKaix
    @xDanKaix Před rokem +1

    Lmao when he starts with epsilon greater than or equal to 0 and somehow gets to random conditional probabilities. I was truly intimidated.

  • @Noah-di3iu
    @Noah-di3iu Před 4 lety +4

    Me at the start: this should be funny
    Me 1 minute in: on shit he’s actually teaching useful things

    • @314epsilon
      @314epsilon Před 4 lety +1

      @@PapaFlammy69 but my momma still phat and geh, tho

  • @user_2793
    @user_2793 Před 5 lety +2

    I love how professor Dotson gives the Goldbach conjencture as a small excersise.

  • @fdk9246
    @fdk9246 Před 5 lety +15

    hahahhah andrew is not an element of the smart people. shots fired

  • @AntoninaKhramova
    @AntoninaKhramova Před 4 lety +1

    The only type of proof that is better than mutual reference is non-mutual reference, when you find a paper that uses the same lemma and says it's evident, but once you refer there it's not your problem anymore :D

  • @cesaraguilar5405
    @cesaraguilar5405 Před 5 lety +3

    When i first watched this I was so cringed, and thought this wasn't funny at all...
    Here I am, 2 weeks after starting to do proofs. Shit this is hilariously genious!

  • @chetan5848
    @chetan5848 Před 4 lety +1

    3:30, Proof By Intimidation: Starts with Implicit Function Theorem, and fills the board with conditional probability and ends with complex numbers. Huge success. ROFLMAO!