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  2. A Mathematician's Apology - Wikipedia

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    A Mathematician's Apology 1st edition Author G. H. Hardy Subjects Philosophy of mathematics, mathematical beauty Publisher Cambridge University Press Publication date 1940 OCLC 488849413 A Mathematician's Apology is a 1940 essay by British mathematician G. H. Hardy which defends the pursuit of mathematics for its own sake. Central to Hardy's "apology" – in the sense of a formal justification ...

  3. Template:Math proof - Wikipedia

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  4. List of prematurely reported obituaries - Wikipedia

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    Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...

  5. Mathematical proof - Wikipedia

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    In proof by exhaustion, the conclusion is established by dividing it into a finite number of cases and proving each one separately. The number of cases sometimes can become very large. For example, the first proof of the four color theorem was a proof by exhaustion with 1,936 cases. This proof was controversial because the majority of the cases ...

  6. Proof by exhaustion - Wikipedia

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    Proof by exhaustion, also known as proof by cases, proof by case analysis, complete induction or the brute force method, is a method of mathematical proof in which the statement to be proved is split into a finite number of cases or sets of equivalent cases, and where each type of case is checked to see if the proposition in question holds. [1]

  7. Proof by contradiction - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, the above proof that the law of excluded middle implies proof by contradiction can be repurposed to show that a decidable proposition is ¬¬-stable. A typical example of a decidable proposition is a statement that can be checked by direct computation, such as " n {\displaystyle n} is prime" or " a {\displaystyle a} divides b ...

  8. Proof of funds - Wikipedia

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    A proof of funds (POF) is a document such as a bank statement proving that a person or a company has the financial ability to perform a transaction or meet a potential future liability. The POF can be issued by a bank, a financial institution or a trade finance provider.

  9. Presumptive and confirmatory tests - Wikipedia

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    The sample probably is the substance. For example, the Kastle–Meyer test will show either that a sample is not blood or that the sample is probably blood, but may be a less common substance. Further chemical tests are needed to prove that the substance is blood.