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Introduction to Analysis · Lesson 09
This lesson mixes everything from the chapter without announcing which idea each question is testing. Deciding what a question is about is part of the work, and it is the part that transfers to reading mathematics written by other people.
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Complete Mathematical induction first.
This lesson mixes everything from the chapter without announcing which idea each question is testing. Deciding what a question is about is part of the work, and it is the part that transfers to reading mathematics written by other people.
Practising scales separately is not the same as playing a piece. Here the ideas arrive out of order, as they do in any argument you will meet outside a lesson built around them.
A statement carries exactly one truth value. Connectives build statements from statements, quantifiers turn open sentences into statements, and an implication fails in only one case. Three proof shapes follow from that: direct, contrapositive and contradiction.
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Which of these has no truth value as it stands?
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Let and . Is the statement true?
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Let . Is "every element of is negative" true?
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"If then " is true. Is its converse true?
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What is the negation of ?
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To disprove "every set with two elements contains ", which set works?
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Which opening belongs to a proof by contradiction of ?
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Over the whole numbers, which of these is false?
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A property is defined by . What is its denial?
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An inductive step that holds for every n proves the claim even without a base case.
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"A set is finite only if it is countable." Which implication is that?
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Using , what is ?
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For a function , which statement says that is constant?
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