Math Facts

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Steps to Solving a Math Problem:

1. Reread the problem statement, taking care not to miss any important adjectives which may make proving your statement easier.

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Theorem: If a,b,c are the side lengths of a triangle, then

π = a^2 + 3ab + 3bc + b^2 + c^2 + a^4 + π - b^2 - c^2 - a^2 - 3ab - a^4 - 2bc - bc.

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Ancient Greeks often used the fraction 22/7 as an approximation of π, whereas modern mathematicians typically use π/1.

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π was originally discovered by the ancient Greeks, who were searching for a symbol to describe the area of a circle with radius 1.

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MathOverflow is a forum where one can receive answers to some of the complicated questions in mathematics by prestigious scholars such as CAT_IN_THE_HAT.

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Of the 151,221 subgroups of S_8, exactly 3 of them are "normal."

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In the definition of a field, the additive identity element 0 is defined to be distinct from the multipllicative identity element 1. Therefore, the field with one element does not exist. QED

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Game Theory is the study of creating mathematical solutions to games that no person would actually want to play.

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The symbol d/dx is called the impartial derivative.

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Functional Analysis is a subject created to punish linear algebra students for asking too many questions about infinite dimensional vector spaces.

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The Sylow theorems were originally proven so that Sylow would have good test questions for the abstract algebra class he was teaching.

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273 > 270

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ifff = if and only if and if

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The One Color Theorem is a result which completely classifies the skin color of people who believe that the police do not treat black people differently.