Abstract: The uses and interpretation of reductio ad absurdum argument-ation in mathematical proof and dis-covery are examined, illustrated with elementary and progressively sophisti-cated examples, and explained. Against Arthur Schopenhauer’s ob-jections, reductio reasoning is defen-ded as a method of uncovering new mathematical truths, and not merely of confirming independently grasped ma-thematical intuitions. The application of reductio argument is contrasted with purely mechanical brute algo-rithmic inferences as an art requiring skill and intelligent intervention in the choice of hypotheses and attribution of contradictions deduced to a particular assumption in a contradiction’s deri-vation base within a reductio proof structure. Resu...
There is overwhelming evidence that students face serious challenges in learning mathematical proof....
Despite its central place in the mathematics curriculum the notion of mathematical proof has failed ...
Abstract: Used informally, the Reductio ad Absurdum (RAA) consists in reasoning appealing to the lo...
The uses and interpretation of reductio ad absurdum argumentation in mathematical proof and discover...
In proof by reductio ad absurdum, the impossibility of a mathematical object is drawn from the deduc...
AbstractThe article presents the reduction ad absurdum method of demonstration followed by some repr...
This paper aims at clarifying the procedure of proofs by reductio ad impossibile in Aristotle’s Prio...
The ontological status of evidence is reduced to reducing to absurdity. The problem is that in such ...
The study presented in this report is part of a wide research project concerning argumentation and p...
International audienceOne technique that future mathematicians should dominate is proof by reductio ...
In this paper, mathematical proofs are conceived as a form of (guided) intentional reasoning. In a p...
The formal acceptance of a mathematical proof is based on its logical correctness but, from a cognit...
Le texte est consacré aux aspects essentiels de la théorie des démonstrations en logique mathématiqu...
Whenever a subject is organized systematically for expository or foundational purposes (or both), on...
A proof is a successful demonstration that a conclusion necessarily follows by logical reasoning fro...
There is overwhelming evidence that students face serious challenges in learning mathematical proof....
Despite its central place in the mathematics curriculum the notion of mathematical proof has failed ...
Abstract: Used informally, the Reductio ad Absurdum (RAA) consists in reasoning appealing to the lo...
The uses and interpretation of reductio ad absurdum argumentation in mathematical proof and discover...
In proof by reductio ad absurdum, the impossibility of a mathematical object is drawn from the deduc...
AbstractThe article presents the reduction ad absurdum method of demonstration followed by some repr...
This paper aims at clarifying the procedure of proofs by reductio ad impossibile in Aristotle’s Prio...
The ontological status of evidence is reduced to reducing to absurdity. The problem is that in such ...
The study presented in this report is part of a wide research project concerning argumentation and p...
International audienceOne technique that future mathematicians should dominate is proof by reductio ...
In this paper, mathematical proofs are conceived as a form of (guided) intentional reasoning. In a p...
The formal acceptance of a mathematical proof is based on its logical correctness but, from a cognit...
Le texte est consacré aux aspects essentiels de la théorie des démonstrations en logique mathématiqu...
Whenever a subject is organized systematically for expository or foundational purposes (or both), on...
A proof is a successful demonstration that a conclusion necessarily follows by logical reasoning fro...
There is overwhelming evidence that students face serious challenges in learning mathematical proof....
Despite its central place in the mathematics curriculum the notion of mathematical proof has failed ...
Abstract: Used informally, the Reductio ad Absurdum (RAA) consists in reasoning appealing to the lo...