54 pages, and 5 large exercise sections later, I've finally finished the first chapter of \"How To Prove It\". With the first chapter being about sentential logic, I've now covered truth tables, derivations of logical operations, set theory, and the conditional and bi-conditional connectives.<\/p>\n
The next chapter covers further foundational logical concepts and only in Chapter 3 are the intricacies of actual proofs discussed. Having taken this long to cover the first chapter, and<\/em> looking at the amount of paper I've used to do all the exercises so far, I'm not that surprised I was finding proofs so difficult. It turns out my intuition was right, I was<\/em> missing a lot of foundational knowledge.<\/p>\n So far, it's all been going well. Nothing I've looked at in this first chapter has left me mystified and overall I feel like I'm learning. This is exactly where I wanted to be... Just need to up the pace, perhaps...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 54 pages, and 5 large exercise sections later, I've finally finished the first chapter of \"How To Prove It\". With the first chapter being about sentential logic, I've now covered truth tables, derivations of logical operations, set theory, and the conditional and bi-conditional connectives. The next chapter covers further foundational logical concepts and only in … Continue reading The Joy Of Sets<\/span>