Free Market is Efficient
Arrow's Theorem / Gibbard Satterthwaite Theorem
Central Limit Theorem, also Chebyshev Inequality
Market Portfolio is optimal (CAPM)
Taylor Series Expansion can approximate an arbitrary function to arbitrary accuracy
Fourier Transform is invertible, and can be calculated rapidly
Geometric Series converges, and can be calculated in closed form
Nash Equilibrium exists
Satisfiability is NP-complete (Cook, Karp)
Turing Machine is in general undecidable (Rice's Theorem)
Godel's Incompleteness Theorem
Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (complex numbers suffice)
Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
This list is biased toward economic theorems because they probably have the greatest real-world impact.
Each theorem seems surprising, which is what makes it great.
They also seem to state a grand truth about the world.
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