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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/pure-mathematics/events/grad-student-colloquium-9
SUMMARY:Grad Student Colloquium
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DESCRIPTION:NICOLAS BANKS\, UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO\n\nNon-Trivial Theorems 
 with Trivial Proofs\n\nOne of the most fruitful things we can do as mathem
 aticians is to\nthink deeply about simple things. As students and research
 ers\, perhaps\nwe come across results with simple proofs and believe that 
 not much\ncan be learned from them. In this talk\, I will challenge this\n
 misconception by diving into three important\, non-trivial theorems\nwith 
 seemingly trivial proofs - Desargue's Theorem of planar geometry\,\nthe fi
 nite intersection property of compact sets\, and Lagrange's\nTheorem from 
 group theory. These will demonstrate three reasons that a\nprofound truth 
 need not be complicated.\n\nMC 5501\n\n(snacks at 17:00)
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