Syllogistic Logic and Mathematical Proof chronicles and analyzes a debate centered on the following question: does syllogistic logic have the resources to capture mathematical proofs? The history of the attempts to answer this question, the rationales for the different positions, their far-reaching ...
MATHEMATICAL LANGUAGE AND INFORMAL LOGIC 1.1. A few typographical conventions. Certain kinds of mathematical objects are most often represented by certain kinds of letters. For instance, mathematicians often represent a point by “x” and a function by “f,” and very seldom the other way around...
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This fundamental and straightforward text addresses a weakness observed among present-day students, namely a lack of familiarity with formal proof. Beginning with the idea of mathematical proof and the need for it, associated technical and logical skills are developed with care and then brought to ...
In ordinary mathematical logic, and I will say what ‘ordinary’ means later in Section 4, we have symbols (letters) for variables: x, y, z, . . . and letters for predicates or properties, such as M and D above. We also have letters for relations and functions. For example, L(x)...
OK, so what about letters for variables? For those to be invented, I think something like our modern notation for numbers had to be invented. And that didn’t happen for a while. There are a few hints of Hindu-Arabic notation in the mid-first-millennium AD. But it didn’t get real...
significant pathways to truth and are a central concern of this book. Our choice of the title To Truth Through Proof is motivated by the consideration that while in most realms one needs more than logic to achieve an under- standing of what is true, in mathematics the primary and ultimate ...
And now we have enough information to solve the problem. All we need to do is determine how many of each set we can assign to the 26 letters of our alphabet. We can compute the cost in terms of symbols in each of the tiers P2 through P7. We know exactly how many of those symbols...
Proof Letx* be an optimal solution ofP, thenx*∈X⊆X~andc~(x*)≤c(x*)=z*. Sincex*∈X~, we havez~≤c~(x*). Proposition 2 LetxRP*be an optimal solution ofRP. IfxRP*is feasible forP(xRP*∈X)andc~(xRP*)=c(xRP*), thenxRP*is also optimal forP. ...
Logic was already influential in the study and development of mathematics since the time of the ancient Greeks. One of the main issues was already known by Aristotle, namely that for a logical/mathematical propositionΦ, • given a purported proof of Φ, it is not hard to check whether ...