Re: JSH: Math proofs
From: Paul Mason (Paul_member_at_newsguy.com)
Date: 09/09/04
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Date: 9 Sep 2004 04:11:09 -0700
In article <3c65f87.0409081440.35bf0437@posting.google.com>, James Harris
says...
>
>Alex Hunsley <lard@tardis.ed.ac.molar.uk> wrote in message
>news:<MHWYc.65243$a66.19627@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk>...
>> James Harris wrote:
>> > For a while now I've been saying something I thought was rather basic:
>> >
>> > A math proof begins with a truth and proceeds by logical steps to a
>> > conclusion which then must be true.
>>
>> But it's only as good as the truth/coherence of the axioms/assumptions.
>
>If a math proof begins with a truth then how can there be any problem
>with the axioms?
>
Sorry to go all Pilate but I'm curious - what, in mathematics, constitutes "a
truth"?
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