Sunday, November 5, 2017

big list - Which one result in mathematics has surprised you the most?

A large part of my fascination in mathematics is because of some very surprising results that I have seen there.


I remember one I found very hard to swallow when I first encountered it, was what is known as the Banach Tarski Paradox. It states that you can separate a ball $x^2+y^2+z^2 \le 1$ into finitely many disjoint parts, rotate and translate them and rejoin (by taking disjoint union), and you end up with exactly two complete balls of the same radius!


So I ask you which are your most surprising moments in maths?


  • Chances are you will have more than one. May I request post multiple answers in that case, so the voting system will bring the ones most people think as surprising up. Thanks!


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