JordiGH
You know that trick they teach you to evaluate
\[
\int_{-\infty}^\infty e^{-x^2} dx
\]
Multiply it by itself and change to polar coordinates?
Turns out there's a theorem that this trick doesn't generalise at all! It works for this integral and this integral only! (Modulo some trivial multiplicative constants.)
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