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Read  logic chapters 1 to 5  in online volume Three Skills for Algebra  for greater skills & confidence in  work 
and study.

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 Logic chapters 1 to 5  re- appear not in sequence, as is or longer,  in  Volume 1A,  Pattern Based Reason, Bon Appetite.

Logic Mastery
 Amazing, Amusing, Amorous,  Delicious, Delightful, Edifying, Strengthening Elixir. 
It eases work & learning difficulties Makes the hard easier. Opens eyes. Leads to greater precision.
in reading and
writing

Logic mastery makes the hard, easier. Logic mastery  leads to better, stronger and richer comprehension.  Logic mastery  improves reading and writing.  Logic mastery ease learning difficulties.  Logic mastery gives a headstart.  In sum, logic mastery  will develops critical thinking, improve reading and writing, and give a firmer base for work and studies at many levels. Good luck.


After logic  (a) continue reading Three Skills for Algebra, chapters 8 to 14  and do so alongside site area on solving liinear Equations ; or (b) see this calculus starter lesson and Volume 3, Why Slopes  & More Math, chapters 2 to 6;

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Appendix B

Pigeon Hole Principle

The Finite Case

The finite pigeon hole principle is given by the contrapositive of the following implication: If there is no more than one pigeon in each of n holes, then the n holes contain at most n pigeons. The equivalent contrapositive of this implication follows. If n holes contain more than n pigeons, then at least one hole contains more than one pigeon. Here it is possible to examine each hole or location, one at a time. After at most n inspections, a first hole with more than one pigeon will be found.

Instead of pigeons and holes, we could speak of elements and sets in accordance with the set-theoretic formulation favored in the axiomatic formulation and codification of modern mathematics.

The Infinite Case

More generally, the infinite pigeon hole principle is as follows. If n holes contains an infinite number of points (small pigeons) then at least one of the holes contain an infinite number. In particular, if the holes are labeled or ordered from 1 to n, then there must be a first hole with infinitely many points (small pigeons) in it. But a finite number of inspections need not say which one. The infinite pigeon hole principle is the contrapositive of the following implication rule: If each of n holes contains finitely many pigeons then all n holes together contain finitely many pigeons.

Imagine for instance that we try to inspect the holes one at a time in sequence in the hope of identifying the first hole with infinitely many points. Further suppose that the points in a hole can be counted one per second. Now if a hole has finitely many points, we can count them all in a finite time. But if a hole has infinitely many points, counting them one per second will begin but never end. Even after counting a large number of points in the hole, there still may be a small, large or infinite number of points in the hole. So even if a count does not appear to be ending, we cannot say that it does.

Food for thought: In principle perhaps, time and temporal notions have no place in the comprehension or visualization of mathematics: we can see or understand everything at once. But logical and numerical reasoning or computations as they are followed or done depend on a sequence of operations or counts in time. In particular, mathematical reasoning takes time to be done or followed. Yet with hindsight, that reasoning and the results obtained can be reviewed and understood with a fleeting thought - divorced from the passage of time. The reasoning and the results appear to have an objective (Platonic) existence apart from the passage of time. To say more would delve into several philosophies of mathematics and logic.
 

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Here are the Appendices from  Volume 3, Why Slopes and More Math,  Chapters 14 to 19 in Vol 3 are related. Here is a  reference for college or university mathematics, electrical engineering and physics.

A. What's Next
B. Pigeon Hole Principle
B. Bolzano-Weierstrass
C1. Triangle Inequality
C2. Triangle Inequality
C. More T.Inequality
D. Sets & Sequences
D. Monotone Sequences
E. Limits,  Properties
E Limits & Error Control
F. Continuous Functions
F. Closed Range Thm
F. Intermediate Val. Thm
F. Compactness Thm
F. Equicontinuity Thm
F Extreme Value Thm
G. Rolle's Theorem etc
G. Mean Val. Thm.
G. Constant Difference Thm
G. Lipschitz Continuity I
PS: One Sided Range Theorems
G. Velocity Revisited
G. Sufficient Conditions
H. Riemann Sums Conv
H. Lipschitz Continuity II

The site area More Calculus contains a one-sided theorem with proof that should be of interest too.

Vol 1A Logic Postscripts
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Proof by Absurdity alias proof by contradiction

How the demand for consistency supports the law of the excluded middle

Reality versus or with the aid of Imagination

Science, Engineering & Math Students: Have you seen a simpler  geometric introduction to complex numbers? ( java applet included) . Can you explain what is a variable without using a symbol? Can you derive trig expression for dot & cross cosine law from complex number properties? For truth tables and indirect methods of reason, see  chapters 19-24 & postscripts in  Pattern Based Reason  and visit Volume 1A, Pattern Based Reason, striving for objectivity, the empirical challenge & limits.  

Vol 1A Postscripts
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Proof by Absurdity alias proof by contradiction

How the demand for consistency supports the law of the excluded middle

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