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Mathematical theorems

Can you recognize these 15 theorems every mathematician should know?
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Establishes a relationship between the sides of a right triangle.
Pythagoras' Theorem
Every proposition is either true or false in classical logic.
Law of Excluded Middle
Every non-constant polynomial with complex coefficients has at least one complex root.
Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
Every integer greater than one has a unique factorization into prime numbers, up to order.
Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic
More items than containers implies some container holds at least two items.
Pigeonhole Principle
Every nonempty set of natural numbers has a least element.
Well-Ordering Principle
Integration and differentiation are somewhat inverse processes.
Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
he absolute value of an inner product is bounded by the product of the norms.
Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality
Every continuous map from a compact convex set to itself has a fixed point.
Brouwer's Theorem
Relates a line integral around a simple curve to a double integral over the region it encloses.
Green's Theorem
Generalizes the previous theorem to an arbitrary number of dimensions.
Stokes' Theorem
Every simple closed curve in the plane divides the plane into exactly two regions.
Jordan Curve Theorem
Complete metric spaces cannot be countable unions of nowhere dense sets.
Baire Category Theorem
Any sufficiently expressive formal system cannot be both complete and consistent.
Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems
If a first-order theory has an infinite model, it has models of all infinite cardinalities.
Löwenheim-Skolem Theorem
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