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TFA starts off a little cheesy, where you might almost think to bounce because the writing is going to just pummel the subject matter beyond recognition. But t
by zaroth 7y ago
TFA starts off a little cheesy, where you might almost think to bounce because the writing is going to just pummel the subject matter beyond recognition.
But then as you continue, you go deeper and deeper through the rabbit hole. Expertly guided through a series of analogies and examples through a complex subject until you arrive at an incredible payoff in perfectly understandable terms.
I won’t spoil the surprise. But it’ll just say I love how this proof works so, so much.
In the end it rests on the logic that if A then B but we know !B therefore !A. It proves that for something to be true, then something else which we know to be false would then have to be true. Therefore that something must not be true. I love it.
- chasd00 7y agoI remember my professors saying proof by contradiction was very powerful. i guess they were right after all.
- rytill 7y agofirst I’ve heard the abbreviation TFA, which apparently means “this fine article.” Edit: or maybe “the featured article”, either way derived from “RTFA”, “the fucking article”, which I assume derived from RTFM, of which many more I’m sure are familiar.