21127 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mathematical Game, Natural Number, Determinacy

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Administrivia: excel tutoring: work in groups, get help with course material from a group tutor. Sign up in cyert hall b5: walk-in tutoring: tutoring for 21-127 will be available on wednesday nights from 8:30-11:00 p. m. in both the donner reading room and the mudge reading room. As usual, the service is free of charge and students can drop in for help without an appointment. Remember that we are working on inductive arguments where some instance of a fact depends on previous instances. We want to emphasize that this is not always an algebraic fact, or a formula. Sometimes, it"s a geometric fact, or something more abstract! One example is the takeaway game you played in recitation. This is also explained in chapter 2 of the textbook. Consider n lines on an in nite plane (two-dimensional surface) such that no two lines are parallel and no more than two lines intersect at one point.