Thread: Induction help

I understand the rules of prooving by induction, but I can't understand the math in this equation.
If someone could explain what is happening at each step I would be very thankful.



The way I do math is down the page not across
1)
is the equation a simplification of the RHS of the above equation (1)?
how do we get from ??

thanks for any help.

Hello dunsta

Originally Posted by dunsta

I understand the rules of prooving by induction, but I can't understand the math in this equation.
If someone could explain what is happening at each step I would be very thankful.



The way I do math is down the page not across
1)
is the equation a simplification of the RHS of the above equation (1)?
how do we get from ??

thanks for any help.

If , then:

So if we add to both sides of this inequality:

But

So

And obviously

So

And

So

OK now?

Grandad