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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
