MLC Board Meeting 45/17/03: - University of Oregon

Each discipline has its own ideas and standards about what constitutes a proof. Math proofs are designed to answer, once and for all, the correctness or incorrectness of a “mathematical” assertion. Suppose, for example, that I am exploring the sum of three consecutive integers. I see that 6 + 7 + 8 = 21, and 11 + 12 + 13 = 26. ................
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