The Hundred Greatest Theorems
May 16th, 2007A compilation of the hundred greatest theorems the world has seen. This list was presented at a mathematics conference in July, 1999. Of course, there is no sane method of ranking these theorems around each other, so list preparers Paul and Jack Abad followed the following criteria: “the place the theorem holds in the literature, the quality of the proof, and the unexpectedness of the result.”
The list, however, is constrained only to theses developed circa 17th century Europe and later. Mathematical treatises authored between 1000 BC and 1000 AD in India would probably merit their own class of lists.
