it is the logical "opposite" of a mathematical statement
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One example: If a = b, the converse b = a is also true.
"If a number is an integer, then it is a whole number." In math terms, the converse of p-->q is q-->p. Note that although the statement in the problem is true, the converse that I just stated is not necessarily true.
If none of the three angles of a triangle is ninety degrees, then it is not a right triangle
Not necessarily. If the statement is "All rectangles are polygons", the converse is "All polygons are rectangles." This converse is not true.
no converse is not true