When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Turing's proof - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing's_proof

    Nowhere within the "code" of M will the numerical "figures" (symbols) 1 and 0 ever appear. If M wants U to print a symbol from the collection blank, 0, 1 then it uses one of the following codes to tell U to print them. To make things more confusing, Turing calls these symbols S0, S1, and S2, i.e. blank = S0 = D 0 = S1 = DC 1 = S2 = DCC

  3. Counterexample - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterexample

    In logic a counterexample disproves the generalization, and does so rigorously in the fields of mathematics and philosophy. [1] For example, the fact that "student John Smith is not lazy" is a counterexample to the generalization "students are lazy", and both a counterexample to, and disproof of, the universal quantification "all students are ...

  4. Direct proof - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_proof

    In mathematics and logic, a direct proof is a way of showing the truth or falsehood of a given statement by a straightforward combination of established facts, usually axioms, existing lemmas and theorems, without making any further assumptions. [1] In order to directly prove a conditional statement of the form "If p, then q", it suffices to ...

  5. Mathematical proof - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_proof

    For example, we can prove by induction that all positive integers of the form 2n − 1 are odd. Let P(n) represent "2n − 1 is odd": (i) For n = 1, 2n − 1 = 2(1) − 1 = 1, and 1 is odd, since it leaves a remainder of 1 when divided by 2. Thus P(1) is true.

  6. Proof by exhaustion - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_exhaustion

    Proof by exhaustion can be used to prove that if an integer is a perfect cube, then it must be either a multiple of 9, 1 more than a multiple of 9, or 1 less than a multiple of 9. [3] Proof: Each perfect cube is the cube of some integer n, where n is either a multiple of 3, 1 more than a multiple of 3, or 1 less than a multiple of 3. So these ...

  7. Principia Mathematica - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica

    The ramified type (τ 1,...,τ m |σ 1,...,σ n) can be modeled as the product of the type (τ 1,...,τ m,σ 1,...,σ n) with the set of sequences of n quantifiers (∀ or ∃) indicating which quantifier should be applied to each variable σ i. (One can vary this slightly by allowing the σs to be quantified in any order, or allowing them to ...

  8. Convergence proof techniques - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_proof_techniques

    Convergence proof techniques are canonical patterns of mathematical proofs that sequences or functions converge to a finite limit when the argument tends to infinity.. There are many types of sequences and modes of convergence, and different proof techniques may be more appropriate than others for proving each type of convergence of each type of sequence.

  9. List of mathematical proofs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_proofs

    convergence of the geometric series with first term 1 and ratio 1/2; Integer partition; Irrational number. irrationality of log 2 3; irrationality of the square root of 2; Mathematical induction. sum identity; Power rule. differential of x n; Product and Quotient Rules; Derivation of Product and Quotient rules for differentiating. Prime number