This may be a dumb question, but I'm in a computer science class called Applied Logic, where we have to develop formal proofs, and I'm very inexperienced with them.
So my question is:
Is there a way to prove that (1*(-x)) = ((-1)*x) using basic arithmetic axioms. These axioms specifically:
x + 0 = x {+ identity}
(x) + x = 0 {+ complement}
x 1 = x { identity}
x 0 = 0 { null}
x + y = y + x {+ commutative}
x y = y x { commutative}
x + (y + z) = (x + y) + z {+ associative}
x (y z) = (x y) z { associative}
x (y + z) = (x y) + (x z) {distributive law}
$1x+(-1)x=(1-1)x=0x=0$, thus by uniqueness of inverses, $-x=(-1)x$