Lecture 3: How to Write a Proof; Archimedean Property

MIT 18.100B Real Analysis, Spring 2025
Instructor: Tobias Holck Colding
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In this lecture we take a closer look of what it means to write a mathematical proof. In doing so we return to the Archimedean property as well as why the square root of 2 is not a rational number.

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