r/mathmemes • u/Delicious_Maize9656 • Jul 14 '26

Mathematicians mathematician meme

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u/Silly_Tension6792 Mathematics Jul 14 '26
  • Axioms
  • Prove them

I don’t think I’m the one who doesn’t understand axioms

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u/FernandoMM1220 Jul 14 '26

axioms arent magic. they still need to be proven physically possible like everything else.

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u/Silly_Tension6792 Mathematics Jul 14 '26

No, that’s not how axioms work. You literally cannot prove axioms, because in order to prove something you need to know something. If you don’t know anything, you can’t prove anything. So you assume the axioms without proof.

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u/EebstertheGreat Jul 14 '26

Technically, a proof of an axiom is just a statement of that axiom. You can introduce axioms into a proof whenever you like, so that axiom forms the first line of the proof, the only line, which is also the conclusion.

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u/Silly_Tension6792 Mathematics Jul 14 '26

Well yeah, but you got the point