DMP 3.6: Strong Induction

Reading

Epp Section 4.8 pages 230–231: Are There Infinitely Many Prime Numbers?

Section 5.3 pages 289–291 about coins and 296–297 about trominoes.

We now move on to strong induction which is covered in Section 5.4. Read pages 301–303 on strong induction and pages 308–310 on the well-ordering principle for the integers.

Video

Exercises

• Exercise Set 5.4 Questions 1, 4 (note this should say "d₂=10/11"), 13 and 22.