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Induction Principle

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In Chapter 2 we deduced several formulas for finite sums of numbers. Thus we learned that the sum of the first n natural numbers is given by the identity

$$1+2+\cdots+n=\frac{n(n+1)}{2}$$

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Manfrino, R.B., Ortega, J.A.G., Delgado, R.V. (2015). Induction Principle. In: Topics in Algebra and Analysis. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11946-5_3

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