Featured Columns Math CountS Arguments, Proofs, and ¦ Peter B. Henderson In CS and SE education, there are several questions which arise regarding the mathematical concept of proof. How relevant are proofs? inroads SIGCSE Bulletin 21 - 21 Volume 41, Number 4 2009 December Featured Columns When should they be introduced? How should they be introduced? What are the learning expectations? To learn more about this, consult the paper in this issue by Doug Ensley titled A Hands-On Approach to Proof and Abstraction. Personally, I learned, or thought I had learned, the idea of proof in my 11th grade geometry course. Then the idea popped up again in freshman calculus, then briefly in more advanced math courses, and extensively in linear algebra (which I dropped the first beautiful spring day of my junior year Practical Pete was majoring in electrical engineering do EEs need proof?). But I was inundated with the proofs in my first year of graduate school automata theory with Jeffery Ullman, more linear algebra, real analysis, modern algebra, etc. I even had twenty-three proofs in my PhD thesis. Took 3-4 years of total immersion in graduate school to
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