But beyond money and arguments,proofs are everywhere.

One reason is that they could allow you to win any argument. Abraham Lincoln, one of our nation's greatest leaders of all time used to keep a copy of Euclid's Elements on his bedside table to keep his mind in shape.Another reason is you can make a million dollars.You heard me.One million dollars.That's the price that the Clay Mathematics Institute in Massachusetts is willing to pay anyone who proves one of the many unproven theories that it calls he millenium problems.A couple of these have been solved in the 90s and 2000s.But beyond money and arguments,proofs are everywhere.They underly architecture, art, computer programming, and internet security.If no one understood or could generate a proof,we could not advance these essential parts of our world.Finally, we all know that the proof is in the pudding.And pudding is delicious.