This week I learned a lot. Not necessarily all from lecture, but a lot doing tutorial exercises and the Assignment 1.
Laws
During the tutorial I learned to used the laws we learned to prove equivalence of statements, rather than making truth tables. I found this really helpful since it takes quite some time to make a truth table and rearranging and manipulating the statement to make it equivalent to another is a lot more efficient. I got comfortable using De morgans laws, distributive laws and manipulating an implication (P implies Q <=> not P or Q).
Proof
Just today we were shown how to prove a statement. I learned about the indentation, making assumptions and putting the footnotes. Personally I found proving the actual statement not too hard. I just need to work on properly presenting my work in the format we were shown.
Also this week doing Assignment 1 helped a lot with, negation, taking the contrapositive and converse, changing between symbolic form to english and drawing venn diagrams that will definitely help me on the upcoming test.
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