Indirect Proofs

Friday September 26


It's common in mathematics to prove a statement true without ever actually arguing why it's true. This lecture explores two techniques for doing so - proof by contrapositive and proof by contradiction - and develops some of the mathematical machinery needed to do this effectively.

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