Database REAL AND COMPLEX NUMBERS Real and complex numbers - basic operations Multiplication mulneg1i  
				
		 
		
			
		 
		Description:   Product with negative is negative of product.  Theorem I.12 of Apostol 
       p. 18.  (Contributed by NM , 10-Feb-1995)   (Revised by Mario Carneiro , 27-May-2016) 
		
			
				
					Ref 
					Expression 
				 
					
						Hypotheses 
						mulm1.1   ⊢   A  ∈   ℂ        
					 
					
						mulneg.2   ⊢   B  ∈   ℂ        
					 
				
					Assertion 
					mulneg1i   ⊢    −  A  ⁢  B    =  −   A  ⁢  B         
				 
			
		 
		
				Proof 
				
					
						Step 
						Hyp 
						Ref 
						Expression 
					 
						
							1 
								
							 
							mulm1.1  ⊢   A  ∈   ℂ        
						
							2 
								
							 
							mulneg.2  ⊢   B  ∈   ℂ        
						
							3 
								
							 
							mulneg1   ⊢    A  ∈   ℂ     ∧   B  ∈   ℂ      →    −  A  ⁢  B    =  −   A  ⁢  B           
						
							4 
								1  2  3 
							 
							mp2an  ⊢    −  A  ⁢  B    =  −   A  ⁢  B