What is the purpose of the left column of a 2-column proof?

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anonymous · Answer

what the monkey is a "two column proof"?

katrinakaif · Answer

I believe it is the column style method of listing proofs as
Given and Reason on either side of teh column

hero · Answer

Statements and Reasons

anonymous · Answer

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Two-ColumnProof.html

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

The left column is for statements for each step of the proof while the right column is for the reason why that step is valid.

anonymous · Answer

lol
"However, this form of proof is virtually never used by practicing mathematicians because its confining and verbose format render it of very limited utility to any but the most simple of theorems. "

anonymous · Answer

use that as your answer.

anonymous · Answer

lol i dont get it

hero · Answer

I think my answer was most simple

hero · Answer

Left Side: Statements
Right Side: Reasons

anonymous · Answer

me neither.  sounds like your math teacher wants you to parrot some sort if idiot reasoning that he or she thinks justifies this nonsense, so way whatever they said in class.

anonymous · Answer

ok thank you

hero · Answer

What? I got the medal?

hero · Answer

I thought for sure that Sat would get it