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  • Proofreading (redirect from Text-proofing)
    "Copy holding" or "copy reading" employs two readers per proof. The first reads the text aloud literally as it appears, usually at a comparatively fast...
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    formula. The tableau method can also determine the satisfiability of finite sets of formulas of various logics. It is the most popular proof procedure for modal...
    77 KB (12,513 words) - 22:44, 21 July 2024
  • a constructive proof is a method of proof that demonstrates the existence of a mathematical object by creating or providing a method for creating the...
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  • Thumbnail for Mathematical induction
    extant proof of the sum formula for integral cubes. In India, early implicit proofs by mathematical induction appear in Bhaskara's "cyclic method". None...
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  • In statistics, the delta method is a method of deriving the asymptotic distribution of a random variable. It is applicable when the random variable being...
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  • \vdots {\mbox{ see proof of method 3}}\\R&=10^{n}*((c_{n}{\text{ div }}2)-1)+10^{n-1}*((9-c_{n})+(c_{n-1}{\text{ div }}2)+{\text{ if}}(c_{n}{\bmod...
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  • Thumbnail for Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
    Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is a proof by British mathematician Andrew Wiles of a special case of the modularity theorem for elliptic curves...
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    any accompanying explanatory text. Such proofs can be considered more elegant than formal or mathematically rigorous proofs due to their self-evident nature...
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  • Thumbnail for Socratic method
    The Socratic method (also known as method of Elenchus or Socratic debate) is a form of argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and...
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  • Thumbnail for Proof that 22/7 exceeds π
    142857. But it takes much less work to show that π < ⁠22/7⁠ by the method used in this proof than to show that π is approximately 3.14159. ⁠22/7⁠ is a widely...
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  • there is no general method which tells whether a given formula U is provable in K [Principia Mathematica]". Turing followed this proof with two others. The...
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  • Thumbnail for Textual criticism
    then established methods of textual criticism can be used to seek to reconstruct the original text as closely as possible. The same methods can be used to...
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  • A conditional proof is a proof that takes the form of asserting a conditional, and proving that the antecedent of the conditional necessarily leads to...
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  • Thumbnail for Pythagorean theorem
    different methods – possibly the most for any mathematical theorem. The proofs are diverse, including both geometric proofs and algebraic proofs, with some...
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  • Thumbnail for Newton's method
    secant method whose convergence is slower than that of Newton's method. It is important to review the proof of quadratic convergence of Newton's method before...
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  • the construction of mathematical proofs, and heuristic show that the mathematical method and the scientific method differ in detail, while nevertheless...
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  • axioms, he established the truth of other propositions by proofs, hence the axiomatic method. Many axiomatic systems were developed in the nineteenth century...
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    The Italian mathematician Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576) stated without proof that the accuracies of empirical statistics tend to improve with the number...
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  • Theorem took over three centuries to prove. A method guaranteed to find a proof if a "reasonable" size proof exists, would essentially end this struggle...
    63 KB (7,812 words) - 08:29, 26 July 2024
  • {\frac {1}{1-p^{-s}}}\cdots } This sketch of a proof makes use of simple algebra only. This was the method by which Euler originally discovered the formula...
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