Did You Know?
The book Principia Mathematica, written by Bertrand Russell and Alfred Whitehead, takes about 360 pages to prove the seemingly obvious statement that 1+1=2. While this pursuit may sound frivolous, the goal of Principia Mathematica was to formulate a number of mathematical concepts from a purely logical base, taking extremely tiny logical steps and starting from only the most basic of propositions to prove definitively wide aspects of math as we know it.