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Who gave you the epsilon? and other tales of mathematical history /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…A hundred years of prime numbers /…”
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Who gave you the epsilon? and other tales of mathematical history /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…A hundred years of prime numbers /…”
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An episodic history of mathematics mathematical culture through problem solving /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…The ancient Greeks and the foundations of mathematics -- Zeno's paradox and the concept of limit -- The mystical mathematics of Hypatia -- The Islamic world and the development of algebra -- Cardano, Abel, Galois, and the solving of equations -- René Descartes and the idea of coordinates -- Pierre de Fermat and the invention of differential calculus -- The great Isaac Newton -- The complex numbers and the fundamental theorem of algebra -- Carl Friedrich Gauss: the prince of mathematics -- Sophie Germain and the attack on Fermat's last problem -- Cauchy and the foundations of analysis -- The prime numbers -- Dirichlet and how to count -- Bernhard Riemann and the geometry of surfaces -- Georg Cantor and the orders of infinity -- The number systems -- Henri Poincaré, child phenomenon -- Sonya Kovalevskaya and the mathematics of mechanics -- Emmy Noether and algebra -- Methods of proof -- Alan Turing and cryptography.…”
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An episodic history of mathematics mathematical culture through problem solving /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…The ancient Greeks and the foundations of mathematics -- Zeno's paradox and the concept of limit -- The mystical mathematics of Hypatia -- The Islamic world and the development of algebra -- Cardano, Abel, Galois, and the solving of equations -- René Descartes and the idea of coordinates -- Pierre de Fermat and the invention of differential calculus -- The great Isaac Newton -- The complex numbers and the fundamental theorem of algebra -- Carl Friedrich Gauss: the prince of mathematics -- Sophie Germain and the attack on Fermat's last problem -- Cauchy and the foundations of analysis -- The prime numbers -- Dirichlet and how to count -- Bernhard Riemann and the geometry of surfaces -- Georg Cantor and the orders of infinity -- The number systems -- Henri Poincaré, child phenomenon -- Sonya Kovalevskaya and the mathematics of mechanics -- Emmy Noether and algebra -- Methods of proof -- Alan Turing and cryptography.…”
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An Introduction to Mathematical Proofs
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…and ⁶</P><P>Ordered Pairs; Product Sets</P><P>General Unions and Intersections</P><P>Axiomatic Set Theory (Optional)</P><P></P><B><P>Integers</P></B><P>Recursive Definitions; Proofs by Induction</P><P>Induction Starting Anywhere: Backwards Induction</P><P>Strong Induction</P><P>Prime Numbers; Division with Remainder</P><P>Greatest Common Divisors; Euclid's GCD Algorithm</P><P>More on GCDs; Uniqueness of Prime Factorizations</P><P>Consequences of Prime Factorization (Optional)</P><P></P><B><P>Relations and Functions</P></B><P>Relations; Images of Sets under Relations</P><P>Inverses, Identity, and Composition of Relations</P><P>Properties of Relations</P><P>Definition of Functions</P><P>Examples of Functions; Proving Equality of Functions</P><P>Composition, Restriction, and Gluing</P><P>Direct Images and Preimages</P><P>Injective, Surjective, and Bijective Functions</P><P>Inverse Functions</P><P></P><B><P>Equivalence Relations and Partial Orders</P></B><P>Reflexive, Symmetric, and Transitive Relations</P><P>Equivalence Relations</P><P>Equivalence Classes</P><P>Set Partitions</P><P>Partially Ordered Sets</P><P>Equivalence Relations and Algebraic Structures (Optional)</P><P></P><B><P>Cardinality</P></B><P>Finite Sets</P><P>Countably Infinite Sets</P><P>Countable Sets</P><P>Uncountable Sets</P><P></P><B><P>Real Numbers (Optional)</P></B><P>Axioms for R; Properties of Addition</P><P>Algebraic Properties of Real Numbers</P><P>Natural Numbers, Integers, and Rational Numbers</P><P>Ordering, Absolute Value, and Distance</P><P>Greatest Elements, Least Upper Bounds, and Completeness</P><P></P><B><P>Suggestions for Further Reading</P></B>…”
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An Introduction to Mathematical Proofs
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…and ⁶</P><P>Ordered Pairs; Product Sets</P><P>General Unions and Intersections</P><P>Axiomatic Set Theory (Optional)</P><P></P><B><P>Integers</P></B><P>Recursive Definitions; Proofs by Induction</P><P>Induction Starting Anywhere: Backwards Induction</P><P>Strong Induction</P><P>Prime Numbers; Division with Remainder</P><P>Greatest Common Divisors; Euclid's GCD Algorithm</P><P>More on GCDs; Uniqueness of Prime Factorizations</P><P>Consequences of Prime Factorization (Optional)</P><P></P><B><P>Relations and Functions</P></B><P>Relations; Images of Sets under Relations</P><P>Inverses, Identity, and Composition of Relations</P><P>Properties of Relations</P><P>Definition of Functions</P><P>Examples of Functions; Proving Equality of Functions</P><P>Composition, Restriction, and Gluing</P><P>Direct Images and Preimages</P><P>Injective, Surjective, and Bijective Functions</P><P>Inverse Functions</P><P></P><B><P>Equivalence Relations and Partial Orders</P></B><P>Reflexive, Symmetric, and Transitive Relations</P><P>Equivalence Relations</P><P>Equivalence Classes</P><P>Set Partitions</P><P>Partially Ordered Sets</P><P>Equivalence Relations and Algebraic Structures (Optional)</P><P></P><B><P>Cardinality</P></B><P>Finite Sets</P><P>Countably Infinite Sets</P><P>Countable Sets</P><P>Uncountable Sets</P><P></P><B><P>Real Numbers (Optional)</P></B><P>Axioms for R; Properties of Addition</P><P>Algebraic Properties of Real Numbers</P><P>Natural Numbers, Integers, and Rational Numbers</P><P>Ordering, Absolute Value, and Distance</P><P>Greatest Elements, Least Upper Bounds, and Completeness</P><P></P><B><P>Suggestions for Further Reading</P></B>…”
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