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  title info:
    non sort: An
    title: Invitation to Abstract Mathematics
  name:
    name part: Bajnok, Béla.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 406 p. online resource.
  abstract: This undergraduate textbook is intended primarily for a transition course into higher mathematics, although it is written with a broader audience in mind. The heart and soul of this book is problem solving, where each problem is carefully chosen to clarify a concept, demonstrate a technique, or to enthuse. The exercises require relatively extensive arguments, creative approaches, or both, thus providing motivation for the reader. With a unified approach to a diverse collection of topics, this text points out connections, similarities, and differences among subjects whenever possible. This book shows students that mathematics is a vibrant and dynamic human enterprise by including historical perspectives and notes on the giants of mathematics, by mentioning current activity in the mathematical community, and by discussing many famous and less well-known questions that remain open for future mathematicians. Ideally, this text should be used for a two semester course, where the first course has no prerequisites and the second is a more challenging course for math majors; yet, the flexible structure of the book allows it to be used in a variety of settings, including as a source of various independent-study and research projects.
  table of contents: Preface to Instructors -- Preface to Students -- Acknowledgments -- I What's Mathematics -- 1 Let's Play a Game! -- 2 What's the Name of the Game? -- 3 How to Make a Statement?- 4 What's True in Mathematics? -- 5 Famous Classical Theorems -- 6 Recent Progress in Mathematics -- II How to Solve It? -- 7 Let's be Logical! -- 8 Setting Examples -- 9 Quantifier Mechanics -- 10 Mathematical Structures -- 11 Working in the Fields (and Other Structures) -- 12 Universal Proofs -- 13 The Domino Effect -- 14 More Domino Games -- 15 Existential Proofs -- 16 A Cornucopia of Famous Problems -- III Advanced Math for Beginners -- 17 Good Relations -- 18 Order, Please! -- 19 Let's be Functional! -- 20 Now That's the Limit! -- 21 Sizing It Up -- 22 Infinite Delights -- 23 Number Systems Systematically -- 24 Games Are Valuable! -- IV. Appendices -- A. Famous Conjectures in Mathematics -- B The Foundations of Set Theory -- C All Games Considered -- D Top 40 List of Math Theorems. - Index.
  note: by Béla Bajnok.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical logic
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics, general
  subject:
    topic: History of Mathematical Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Logic and Foundations
  classification: QA1-939
  classification: 510
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
  identifier: 9781461466369
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6636-9
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    record change date: 20151116133925.0
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