Proof Techniques #1: Proof by Induction.


This technique is used on equations with "n" in them. Induction techniques are very popular, even the military used them.

Sample: Proof of induction without proof of induction.

     We know it's true for n equal to 1. Now assume that it's true for every natural number less than n. n is arbitrary, so we can take n as large as we want. If n is sufficiently large, the case of n+1 is trivially equivalent, so the only important n are n less than n. We can take n = n (from above), so it's true for n+1 because it's just about n.

QED. (QED translates from the Latin as "So what?")