Studying Mathematics The Beauty, the Toil and the Method /

Bibliografiske detaljer
Main Authors: Bramanti, Marco (Author), Travaglini, Giancarlo (Author)
Institution som forfatter: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XVII, 398 p. 140 illus., 11 illus. in color.
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Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Udgivelse:1st ed. 2018.
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Online adgang:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91355-1
Format: Electronisk Bog
Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Part 1. The Language of Mathematics
  • A Few Ambiguities of Everyday Language
  • To represent by Sets
  • Propositions and Properties
  • Proofs, Implications and Counterexamples
  • Negations and Indirect Proofs
  • Formulae and Indices
  • Saturation of Indices and Syntactic Consistency of a Formula
  • Induction and Natural Numbers
  • Part 2. The Study of a Mathematical Book
  • To Read a Definition
  • To Understand, i.e. to Know How to Reuse
  • To Learn How to Correct
  • To Sift the Ideas
  • To Understand, i.e. to Know How to Explain
  • Part 3. Pages and Ideas
  • Majorizations
  • Uniqueness Proofs (Level B)
  • Functions and Set Theoretic Arguments
  • Tiles, Polyhedra, Characterizations
  • Index. .