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Definitions, proofs and examples
These sessions are intended to reinforce material from lectures, while also providing more opportunities for students to hone their skills in a number of areas, including the following: working with formal definitions; making deductions from information given; writing relatively routine proofs; investigating the properties of examples; thinking up examples with specified combinations of properties. Dr Joel Feinstein is an Associate Professor in Pure Mathematics at the University of Nottingham. After reading mathematics at Cambridge, he carried out research for his doctorate at Leeds. He...
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Ratings & Reviews
2.9 stars from 8 ratings
Why do we do proofs
Clearly explained with interesting and enlightening examples.
dra_red via Apple Podcasts · Australia · 12/20/11
It's good
Good although some explanations are hard to understand
Awinspiering via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 11/20/11
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An easy proof by contradiction concerning sets absorbing sequences; a proof that various statements about convergence of sequences in a non-empty set are equivalent to the set having exactly one point; various examples relating to (non) sequential compactness and divergence of subsequences. Dr...
Published 12/02/11
A close look at sequences of real numbers which tend to plus or minus infinity, and connections with the (non)-existence of bounded subsequences and/or convergent subsequences. Dr Feinstein's blog may be viewed at: http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com Dr Joel Feinstein is an Associate Professor...
Published 11/21/11
How do we do proofs? (Part II)
Published 11/16/11
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