Timeline for Abstract thought vs calculation
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| May 23, 2022 at 10:03 | comment | added | user44143 | Here the calculations are easier and more insightful than the proof by induction! The sum $1+\cdots+m$ can be grouped into $m/2$ pairs which each sum to $m+1$, so the overall sum is $(m+1)m/2$, QED. The proof by induction is easier to formalize and generalize, but it doesn’t help much in understanding this sum. | |
| May 23, 2022 at 7:29 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
a minor typo
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| Jul 1, 2010 at 23:54 | history | edited | Joel David Hamkins | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
Reorganzied into a better answer
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| Jul 1, 2010 at 23:02 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by François G. Dorais | ||
| Jul 1, 2010 at 21:31 | history | answered | Joel David Hamkins | CC BY-SA 2.5 |