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From: zwicky@osu-eddie.UUCP (Elizabeth D. Zwicky)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: list of proof methodologies
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Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 17:27:01 EST
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In article <21@Cascade.ARPA> marks@Cascade.ARPA writes:
>I'm looking for a list of humorous proofs I once saw.  It included such
>proofs as:
>
>    Proof by lack of counterexamples:
>	"I looked for a long time for counterexamples, and I couldn't
>	find any, so it must be true."
>Stuart
>-- 
>Stuart Marks, Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University

	Try the book _A Random Walk through Science_, which
also contains many other gems, including a stress analysis
of a strapless evening gown, and how mathematicians catch lions.

The Quantum Physiscist's method:

Place a cage in the middle of the desert. At any moment there is a
finite probability that there is a lion in the cage. Wait.

	-Elizabeth D. Zwicky