31 July 2006

Problem Proof 0 (1.2.1, 2)

``There must be something wrong with the following proof. What is it?

Theorem. Let a be any positive number. For all positive integers
n we have an-1 = 1. Proof. If n=1, an-1=a1-1=a0=1.
And by induction, assuming that the theorem is true for 1, 2, ..., n, we have



so the theorem is true for n+1 as well."

Continued

3 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

How about you link to all of this from your mathmeth.com page? Why didn't you tell about about this before?

Now I will enjoy the reading!

6:47 AM  
Blogger Eric said...

How the hell did you even find about this page?

1:46 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Hahahaha.

My eye sees all!

(Actually, mathmeth.com gets a lot of hits from this address. I saw it on the logs and followed the link.)

5:29 AM  

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