Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!oliveb!Glacier!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-miles!chabot From: chabot@miles.DEC Newsgroups: net.misc,net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Wanted: list of proof methodologies Message-ID: <1375@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 20:35:54 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1375 Posted: Mon Nov 11 20:35:54 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 08:12:56 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 8 Xref: watmath net.misc:8879 net.jokes.d:1209 A book you should check out is _How_to_Solve_It_ by Polya. I'm pretty sure it's still in print. Besides being a wonderful book, it has a few gems about math professors, differential equations, and other incidents in learning math. When I was a frosh, I heard in 18.01 lecture a professor admit to "Proof by Erasure". This only works for blackboard discussions--as you cover the board you erase the questionable parts.