Re: The seven step-Mathematical preliminaries

From: russell standish <lists.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:31:48 +1000

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:11:41AM -0400, Jesse Mazer wrote:
>
> The English term for this is "proof by contradiction":
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_contradiction
>

Funnily enough, we were taught to call this by the latin phrase
"reductio ad absurdum". I think my maths prof came from Cambridge :).

Cheers

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Received on Thu Jun 04 2009 - 09:31:48 PDT