PROOF STRUCTURE

• State theorem to be proved in symbolic form.

• Mark beginning with word "Proof:"

• Introduce initial variables and explain

- what kind of objects they are (i.e. which set they belong to)

- what other properties they have

• Proof body

- start from assumptions (i.e. what is already known)

- work step by step towards conclusion

- justify every step with either an assumption, a previously derived step, an axiom, an already proved theorem, or a valid argument form.

• Conclusion - Mark end with Q.E.D or Q or 

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