Fear of commitment of self-help, Harvard psychologist Deborah DePaulo has written books such as "Singleism" on the stigmatization of single people. The use of the term "fear" or "phobia" imparts an inherent linguistic bias. It recasts specific lifestyle decisions (such as bachelorhood vs. marriage, or a conscious decision to remain childfree by choice) implicitly as generalised, irrational phobias while failing to identify, describe or address an individual's specific motives. For instance, the men's rights movement, citing high divorce rates and expensive alimony and legal costs, would speak not in terms of "fear of commitment" but of "marriage strike" to reflect their position that
Proof that e is irrational fraction, "e" is irrational. A short proof of the previous equality is known. Since the simple continued fraction of "e" is not periodic, this also proves that "e" is not a root of second degree polynomial with rational coefficients; in particular, "e" is irrational. The most well-known proof is Joseph Fourier's proof by contradiction, which is based upon the equality Initially "e" is assumed to be a rational number of the form ⁄. Note that "b" could not be equal to 1 as "e" is not an integer. It can be shown using the above equality that "e" is strictly