known as proofs of impossibility, negative proofs, or negative results. Impossibility theorems often resolve decades or centuries of work spent looking...
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Impossibility theorem could refer to: Proof of impossibility, a negative proof of a theory Arrow's impossibility theorem in welfare economics This disambiguation...
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No-go theorem (section Proof of impossibility)
is the concept of proof of impossibility referring to problems impossible to solve. The difference between this impossibility and that of the no-go theorems...
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A proof of impossibility or an evidence of absence argument are typical methods to fulfill the burden of proof for a negative claim. Burden of proof is...
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Proving a negative (redirect from Negative proof)
Evidence of absence in general, such as evidence that there is no milk in a certain bowl Modus tollens, a logical proof Proof of impossibility, mathematics...
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its original proof Mathematical induction and a proof Proof that 0.999... equals 1 Proof that 22/7 exceeds π Proof that e is irrational Proof that π is irrational...
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Doubling the cube (redirect from Duplication of the cube)
"The Algebra of Geometric Impossibility: Descartes and Montucla on the Impossibility of the Duplication of the Cube and the Trisection of the Angle". Centaurus...
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Look up impossibility in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Impossibility may refer to: Epistemic impossibility, in modal logic a statement that cannot...
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drawing. The method of proof is proof by contradiction. That is, we proceed as if a solution exists and discover some properties of all solutions. These...
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Angle trisection (redirect from Trisection of an angle)
proof of the impossibility of classically trisecting an arbitrary angle in 1837. Wantzel's proof, restated in modern terminology, uses the concept of...
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Arrow's impossibility theorem is a key result in social choice theory, showing that no ranking-based decision rule can satisfy the requirements of rational...
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Three cups problem (section Proof of impossibility)
changes W {\displaystyle W} by the sum of two odd numbers, which is even, completing the proof. Another way of looking is that, at the start, 2 cups are...
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Proof theory is a major branch of mathematical logic and theoretical computer science within which proofs are treated as formal mathematical objects,...
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element of the universe (or sometimes, by convention, a restricted subset such as propositions) to form an infinite set of inference rules. A proof system...
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every proof can, in principle, be constructed using only certain basic or original assumptions known as axioms, along with the accepted rules of inference...
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In logic, proof by contradiction is a form of proof that establishes the truth or the validity of a proposition by showing that assuming the proposition...
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Fermat's Last Theorem (redirect from First case of Fermat's Last Theorem)
proof was released five years after the episode originally aired. Mathematics portal Euler's sum of powers conjecture Proof of impossibility Sums of powers...
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Mathematical induction (redirect from Proof of mathematical induction)
next one (the step). — Concrete Mathematics, page 3 margins. A proof by induction consists of two cases. The first, the base case, proves the statement for...
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In mathematics, a proof by infinite descent, also known as Fermat's method of descent, is a particular kind of proof by contradiction used to show that...
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of positive or negative content in the claim. A negative claim may or may not exist as a counterpoint to a previous claim. A proof of impossibility or...
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Uncountable set (section Without the axiom of choice)
diagonalization proof technique can also be used to show that several other sets are uncountable, such as the set of all infinite sequences of natural numbers...
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a formal proof or derivation is a finite sequence of sentences (known as well-formed formulas when relating to formal language), each of which is an...
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principle that for every system the correctness of a property follows from the impossibility of the impossibility of this property" (Brouwer, ibid, p. 335). This...
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Automated theorem proving (redirect from Automatic proof system)
mathematical proof was a major motivating factor for the development of computer science. While the roots of formalized logic go back to Aristotle, the end of the...
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mathematics, the range of a function may refer to either of two closely related concepts: the codomain of the function, or the image of the function. In some...
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Formal Knowledge in the Formation of the Proof Image: A Case Study in the Context of Infinite Sets". Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education...
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Higher-order logic (redirect from Semantics of higher-order logic)
sound, and complete proof calculus. The model-theoretic properties of HOL with standard semantics are also more complex than those of first-order logic...
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Proof by exhaustion, also known as proof by cases, proof by case analysis, complete induction or the brute force method, is a method of mathematical proof...
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Existential quantification (section Rules of inference)
n=25} . The mathematical proof of an existential statement about "some" object may be achieved either by a constructive proof, which exhibits an object...
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family of functions whose learnability in EMX is undecidable in standard set theory. Decidability (logic) Entscheidungsproblem Proof of impossibility Unknowability...
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