(Answer only if you’ve ever derived a mathematical proof.) Have you ever “seen” a proof of a theorem in an intuitive flash of insight?
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And I said “you’d need boundary conditions for that, there wouldn’t be any stationary objects like that in Euclidean space”, mostly from just visualizing what you’d need to have a standing wave in a pool or something
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But I think where this applies it depends on how you discretize the differential equation & in the case where it’s definitely true it’s a direct consequence of Liouville’s theorem, so not that cool.
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