Some extra problems for MAT 200
- Write the negation of each of the following statements (in English,
not symbolically).
- If it rains, then either I will wear a coat or I'll stay home.
- This function has no inverse, and it is not continuous.
- In any triangle, the sum of the measure of the angles is less than
.
- For every
, there is a
so that
whenever
.
- Every natural number has a unique additive inverse.
- Prove or disprove each of the following statements, using only the
axioms in Appendix 1. Define the set of integers
by
As usual, we say
is negative if
, and
is positive if
.
- For every integer
and every integer
,
is positive and
is negative.
- There are integers
and
so that
is positive and
is
negative.
- For every integer
, there is an integer
so that
is
positive and
is negative.
- There is an integer
so that, for every integer
,
is
positive and
is negative.
- Consider the following symbolic description of ``kinship''. Our
domain is a set of people, and we have the predicates
- m(x) means ``x is male''.
- f(x) means ``x is female''.
- P(x,y) means ``x is the parent of y''.
We have two axioms:
- (K1)
-
- (K2)
-
- State carefully, in common English, the meaning of axiom K1.
- State carefully, in common English, the meaning of axiom K2.
- Define the predicate
to mean
.
What is the common English meaning of
?
- What is the meaning, in common English, of the assertion
?
- Prove that
.
- Prove that that for any natural number
,
is divisible by
. (Hint: use induction on
.)
Scott Sutherland
2002-10-11