Showing posts with label Pigeonhole Principle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pigeonhole Principle. Show all posts

Friday, July 29, 2011

Mathematical Induction -- principle, perhaps poem

One of my teachers -- I think it was Mr Smith in "College Algebra" during my freshman year at Westminster -- gave me these words to remember:

     When confronted
     with a statement
     that seems true
     for all positive integers
     the wise student
     uses mathematical induction
     as her proof technique.