INTRODUCTORY MATHEMATICS by Smith, Geoff ISBN 3540761780

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[edit] INTRODUCTORY MATHEMATICS

Presenting an introduction to Pure Mathematics, this book begins with Sets, Functions and Relations, Proof by induction and contradiction, Complex Numbers, Vectors and Matrices, and offers a brief introduction to Group Theory. It moves onto analysis, providing an introduction to epsilon-delta technology, and finishes with Continuity and Functions.

This text provides a self-contained introduction to Pure Mathematics. The style is less formal than in most text books and this book can be used either as a first semester course book, or as introductory reading material for a student on his or her own. An enthusiastic student would find it ideal reading material in the period before going to University, as well as a companion for first-year pure mathematics courses. The book begins with Sets, Functions and Relations, Proof by induction and contradiction, Complex Numbers, Vectors and Matrices, and provides a brief introduction to Group Theory. It moves onto analysis, providing a gentle introduction to epsilon-delta technology and finishes with Continuity and Functions, or hat you have to do to make the calculus work Geoff Smith's book is based on a course tried and tested on first-year students over several years at Bath University. Exercises are scattered throughout the book and there are extra exercises on the Internet.

[edit] Book Details

[edit] Title

INTRODUCTORY MATHEMATICS

[edit] Author

Smith, Geoff

[edit] ISBN

3540761780

[edit] Published

27/02/1998

[edit] Publisher

Springer-Verlag GmbH., Germany

[edit] Binding

paperback

[edit] Retail Price

15.95 (GBP)

[edit] Typical Price Online

14.35 (GBP)

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