APPENDIX ADeductive Reasoning and Proofs
“Education is the lighting of the fire, not the filling of a bucket.
—WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865–1939, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1923)
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.”
—PLUTARCH (AD 45–125, Priest of the Delphic Oracle)
A.1 Introduction
One of your objectives in studying this book should be to improve your skill in deductive reasoning. This activity ought to be enjoyable, as it involves real thinking of an analytic nature. Finding a convincing justification for a suspected truth after a long search is very good for your ego! It is creative activity akin to solving a puzzle. But it is better than that, because in some cases you may have established a fact for the first time in ...
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