

Victor Puiseux (based on a discovery of Isaac Newton of 1671) The Undecidability of the Continuum HypothesisĪrithmetic Mean/Geometric Mean (Proof by Backward Induction) Primes that Equal to the Sum of Two Squares (Genus theorem)


Theorem and the Construction of Trancendental Numbers Insolvability of General Higher Degree Equations Bernhard Riemann collectivelyĮuler’s Summation of 1 + (1/2)^2 + (1/3)^2 + … (the Basel Problem). Karl Frederich Gauss, Janos Bolyai, Nikolai Lobachevsky, G.F. Generalization of Fermat’s Little Theorem Yourself with the list itself and the biographies of the principals. Include links to the proofs of them all for now, you'll have to content Theorems here are all certainly worthy results.

The list is of course as arbitrary as the movie and book list, but the Mathematicians were not immune, and at a mathematics conference in July, 1999, Paul and Jack Abad presented their list of "The Hundred Greatest Theorems." Their ranking is based on the following criteria: "the place the theorem holds in the literature, the quality of the proof, and the unexpectedness of the result." The millenium seemed to spur a lot of people to compile "Top 100" or "Best 100" lists of many things, including movies (by the American Film Institute) and books (by the Modern Library). The Top 100 Theorems The Hundred Greatest Theorems
