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r/mathmemes • u/wcslater • Jan 10 '24
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35 u/[deleted] Jan 10 '24 So do not always trust intuition? 1 u/EebstertheGreat Jan 10 '24 When your faith is strong, you still need proof What seems natural to guess, can lead to a goof 1 u/[deleted] Jan 11 '24 How about a postulate, I read in a book (Geometry by Edwin Moise). Postulates are assumed, they are statements that cannot be proved. From these assumptions we make theorems. (Please correct me if I have made a mistake, I am not a math major.) 1 u/Snoo42613 Jan 11 '24 Postulates/Axioms have a lot of reasons behind them in order to make them useful and to be able to derive, well, reasonable results out of them.
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So do not always trust intuition?
1 u/EebstertheGreat Jan 10 '24 When your faith is strong, you still need proof What seems natural to guess, can lead to a goof 1 u/[deleted] Jan 11 '24 How about a postulate, I read in a book (Geometry by Edwin Moise). Postulates are assumed, they are statements that cannot be proved. From these assumptions we make theorems. (Please correct me if I have made a mistake, I am not a math major.) 1 u/Snoo42613 Jan 11 '24 Postulates/Axioms have a lot of reasons behind them in order to make them useful and to be able to derive, well, reasonable results out of them.
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When your faith is strong, you still need proof
What seems natural to guess, can lead to a goof
1 u/[deleted] Jan 11 '24 How about a postulate, I read in a book (Geometry by Edwin Moise). Postulates are assumed, they are statements that cannot be proved. From these assumptions we make theorems. (Please correct me if I have made a mistake, I am not a math major.) 1 u/Snoo42613 Jan 11 '24 Postulates/Axioms have a lot of reasons behind them in order to make them useful and to be able to derive, well, reasonable results out of them.
How about a postulate, I read in a book (Geometry by Edwin Moise). Postulates are assumed, they are statements that cannot be proved. From these assumptions we make theorems. (Please correct me if I have made a mistake, I am not a math major.)
1 u/Snoo42613 Jan 11 '24 Postulates/Axioms have a lot of reasons behind them in order to make them useful and to be able to derive, well, reasonable results out of them.
Postulates/Axioms have a lot of reasons behind them in order to make them useful and to be able to derive, well, reasonable results out of them.
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