Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site foxvax1.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!wjh12!foxvax1!eps360 From: eps360@foxvax1.UUCP (E.P. Shaughnessy ) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: Induction help, please? Message-ID: <470@foxvax1.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 09:35:14 EDT Article-I.D.: foxvax1.470 Posted: Fri Oct 5 09:35:14 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 21:48:45 EDT References: <5264@yale.ARPA> Organization: The Foxboro Co., Foxboro, Mass Lines: 16 ************************************************************************** When I was a kid, I also had problems with induction. I just couldn't understand where to start or even why the thing worked. I eventually became proficient in induction in the following manner: I found a book that contained one induction problem that I could solve. I then convinced myself that as long as I could continue to solve these types of problems, I would never have difficulty with them in the future. Although it wasn't absolutely necessary, I successfully attacked a few more examples just to convince myself that my reasoning was correct. I haven't had a problem since. Ed Shaughnessy