2011-04-04
Original: 2011-04-04 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
A hand-drawn line graph.
Y-axis label: DIFFICULTY OF PROVING A MATHEMATICAL FACT
X-axis label: OBVIOUSNESS OF THAT FACT
A red curve starts low and nearly flat along the bottom, then sweeps sharply upward toward the top-right corner.
An arrow points to the very top of the curve, with the label: "Prove that a set of elements contains the elements it contains."
Votey:
A boxed list:
HARD: PROVE 1+1=2
REALLY HARD: PROOF STUFF CAN EQUAL OTHER STUFF
Y-axis label: DIFFICULTY OF PROVING A MATHEMATICAL FACT
X-axis label: OBVIOUSNESS OF THAT FACT
A red curve starts low and nearly flat along the bottom, then sweeps sharply upward toward the top-right corner.
An arrow points to the very top of the curve, with the label: "Prove that a set of elements contains the elements it contains."
Votey:
A boxed list:
HARD: PROVE 1+1=2
REALLY HARD: PROOF STUFF CAN EQUAL OTHER STUFF
Alt text
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "DIFFICULTY OF PROVING A MATHEMATICAL FACT" and the horizontal axis is labeled "OBVIOUSNESS OF THAT FACT." A red curve stays low and flat for most of the graph, then shoots steeply upward at the far right. An arrow points to the peak of the curve with the note: "Prove that a set of elements contains the elements it contains." The joke: the more obvious a mathematical fact is, the harder it is to formally prove. The votey is a small boxed list reinforcing this: "HARD: PROVE 1+1=2" and "REALLY HARD: PROOF STUFF CAN EQUAL OTHER STUFF."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.