Reading, writing, and proving : a closer look at mathematics / Ulrich Daepp, Pamela Gorkin.

Author/creator Daepp, Ulrich author.
Other author Gorkin, Pamela, author.
Format Book
EditionThird edition.
PublicationNew York : Springer, [2026]
Descriptionxv, 429 pages : illustrations (partly color), diagrams ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesUndergraduate texts in mathematics
Undergraduate texts in mathematics.
Contents The how, when, and why of mathematics -- Logically speaking -- Introducing the contrapositive and converse -- Set notation and quantifiers -- Proof techniques -- Sets -- Operations on sets -- Mathematical Induction -- More on operations on sets -- The power set and the Cartesian product -- Relations -- Partitions -- Order in the reals -- Consequences of the completeness of R -- Functions, domain and range -- Functions, one-to-one, and onto -- Inverses -- Images and inverse images -- Sequences -- Convergence of sequences of real numbers -- Equivalent sets -- Finite sets and an infinite set -- Countable and uncountable sets -- The Cantor-Schröder-Bernstein theorem -- Complex Numbers and Functions -- Metric spaces -- Getting to know open and closed sets -- Modular arithmetic -- Fermat's little theorem -- Projects.
General notePrevious edition: 2011.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN9781071646373 hardback
ISBN1071646370
Standard identifier# CIPO000250159

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