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standing by you. – ARTHENBOT v

Chapter 3: 9 · MATHEMATICS

standing by you. – ARTHENBOT v . Introduction In this Chapter, we shall discuss about some basic ideas of Mathematical Reasoning. All of us know that human beings evolved from the lower species over many millennia. The main asset that made humans “ superior ” to other species was the ability to reason. How well this ability can be used depends on each person’s power of reasoning. How to develop this power? Here, we shall discuss the process of reasoning especially in the context of mathematics. In mathematical language, there are two kinds of reasoning – inductive and deductive. We have already discussed the inductive reasoning in the context of mathematical induction. In this Chapter, we shall discuss some fundamentals of deductive reasoning. . Statements The basic unit involved in mathematical reasoning is a mathematical statement . Let us start with two sentences: In , the president of India was a woman. An elephant weighs more than a human being.

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