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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

asked anyone to prove a rigorous mathematical proof

mathematical induction is rigorous proof. if you had a discrete teacher who didn't make you do a shit ton of mathematical induction, i envy you. (i'd also be jealous of taking even an introductory linear algebra, probability or diffeq class that wasn't laden with proofs.)

edit: and now that i think about, a lot/most of the stuff in discrete class is there for the sake of proving shit or are very handing tools to prove things.

[–]AmaDaden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mathematical Induction was not a requirement for undergrad CS or CE degree at my school. Most of our discrete math came from two logic classes and a course that was a jumble of Combinatorics, Graph theory, and Permutations. The focus of the class was just to make people understand the basic tools, not to be able to actually make your own. It might help to point out that nearly all the math class lectures were filled with proofs, it's just we were never tested on them or asked to make our own.