So apparently I included comments on this reading in the section where I was supposed to talk about 5.1. So much now makes sense! I was really confused why you had asked us to read 6.1 and then we never talked about it. Induction is a pretty basic principle. The part that I couldn't understand was the usefulness of being well-ordered. It doesn't seem to connect in my mind with induction. If we could talk about it in class that would be great.
Induction is a very cool concept. It's pretty much like a proof by cases on steroids. If the base case is true, and then every other case after that is true, it means that the statement is true! It was also neat the way that Gauss used that to find really large sums. That's a neat aspect of induction.
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