Making sense of proof by contradiction

There are certain topics in mathematics where ‘philosophy’ (in the broadest sense) is likely to intrude. Introducing negative or complex numbers is one: is mathematics discovered or invented? Another one is proof by contradiction (or contrapositive, see Kinnear & Sangwin, 2018, for a discussion...

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Main Author: Colin Foster
Format: Default Article
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/21435897.v1
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