Timeline for Nontrivial theorems with trivial proofs

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Dec 9, 2015 at 5:27	comment	added	Selene Routley		@Arrow Thanks. I can recall being a little bothered by the proof of a topological group's being generated by any neighborhood when I first saw it in Sagle and Wade "Introduction to Lie Groups and Lie Algebras" many years ago. It was so unexpected simple and clear that I mistrusted it! (understanding something at depth at very first reading doesn't happen all that often to me). It was only some years later - maybe ten or so - that I suddenly realized that the "cloning" of local structure that happens by dent of translation is what makes things so "rigid" and a topological group so specialized.
Dec 8, 2015 at 14:14	comment	added	Arrow		Wonderful answer.
Jun 26, 2013 at 19:04	history	edited	Fred Daniel Kline	CC BY-SA 3.0	put braces around subscripts
Jun 17, 2011 at 0:19	history	edited	Selene Routley	CC BY-SA 3.0	Fixed error in equation
May 27, 2011 at 5:14	history	edited	Selene Routley	CC BY-SA 3.0	Changed X to G at end of topological group proof
May 27, 2011 at 2:59	history	edited	Selene Routley	CC BY-SA 3.0	fixed formatting
May 27, 2011 at 2:52	history	answered	Selene Routley	CC BY-SA 3.0