[vladislav]

Indeed such a good one when you really think about it, but it's above most readers heads.

[hanche]

So the analogy with the Krein–Milman theorem would be this: Any proof is (approximately, at least) a combination of the extreme proofs of the same result?

Now I have to go read the paper referred to.

[vladislav]

I don't think it was meant so literally. just an interesting way of calling someone a unique mathematician