IIRC one of Martin Gardner’s books has a nice section on that kind of geometrical approach to mathematical problems. It’s a really nice approach, while I know intellectually that induction [the usual attack on e.g. sum-of-first-N-integers] is watertight, the all-integers proofs still feel more solid somehow.
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Date: 2010-12-23 08:25 pm (UTC)