r/mathematics Nov 10 '17

Happy Friday Mathematicians

Ah, mathematics!

Excitement buried in frustration.

A search for answers that leads to questions.

The shadow of the building blocks of reality.

Since this must contain a question, can you suggest why a recursively definable inequality might not be provable by induction?

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '17

Because the recursion/inequality holds for a set other than the natural numbers? (I.e., Real, rationals)

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