The Pleasure of Proof
A mathematician explains the joy of proving a theorem by comparing it to proving a lemma, which is no help to anyone.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-03-19-the-pleasure-of-proof/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A: "What's it like to prove a new theorem?" B: "You know the feeling you get when you prove a new lemma?" A: "Um… no?" B: "It's like that, only more so!"