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How do we do proofs? (Part I)
Definitions, proofs and examples
English - November 16, 2011 09:21 - 29 minutes - 57.8 MB Video - ★★★ - 8 ratingsCourses Education set inclusions set equalities sum union difference cartesian products set differences bounded sets unbounded sets open set Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This is the first of two sessions on how to do proofs. See also Dr Feinstein's blog at http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com/
The aim of these sessions on how we do proofs is to help students with some of the relatively routine aspects of doing proofs. In particular, we focus on how to start proofs, and how and when to use definitions and known results. With practice, students should become fluent in these routine aspects of writing proofs, and this will allow them to focus instead on the more cr