Timeline for Why is mathematical induction necessary to prove results (eg, commutativity) for natural numbers but not for real numbers?
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| Jun 30, 2022 at 4:03 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 24, 2020 at 20:11 | vote | accept | Davis M | ||
| Nov 3, 2020 at 23:39 | comment | added | Arturo Magidin | Well, there’s also ordinal induction; induction works well with any well-ordered set, though the inductive step may take a slightly different form which is equivalent to the usual “next” induction of $\mathbb{N}$. | |
| Nov 3, 2020 at 22:35 | history | answered | tromben | CC BY-SA 4.0 |