证明(proof)
是一种确定事实的方法
(A proof is a method for ascertaining the truth)
物理上和平时:
- 实验和观察(Experimentation & oberservation)
- 抽样和找反例(Sampling & counterexamples)
- 裁判(judge & jury)
- Boss
- inner conviction
例如在计算机科学里很流行的一句话:“信不信由你,我的程序里没有bug!”
(It is very popular in computer science.believe it or not,with the mantra.there are no bugs in my program)
数学证明
证明是通过一系列公理的逻辑推理来验证一个命题
(A methematical proof is a verigication of a proposition by a chain of logical deductions from a set of axioms)
命题是真或假的陈述:
(A proposition is a statement that is either true or false)
Ex: ∀ n ∈ N n 2 + n + 41 \forall n \in \mathbb{N} n^2+n+41 ∀n∈Nn2