Posted by J.H. on March 21, 1999 at 04:44:12 {MWKQmDRkic4cM}:
In Reply to: ****Evolutionism and Creationism posted by ros on March 20, 1999 at 10:11:27:
: In class, most of the mathematicians disagreed.
Did you experience this yourself? What you says seems very incredible, because 1) it's the kind of challenge that is solved very easily through mathematical/logical reasoning; and 2) this particular question was so simple the solution should be immediately apparent to practically anyone.
: Can you prove it mathematically?
Mathematical proof is actually not for beginners. Proving even the most trivial fact in math is often surprisingly difficult. I never learned anything close to proofs on high school, but I had some of that on Business School. Never got the hang of it, and I certainly can't remember it now. I guess an inductive proof should be feasible for this problem, but I will not try it myself.
Eh, Alan? :-)