A Gateway to Higher Mathematics

Download or read book A Gateway to Higher Mathematics written by Jason H. Goodfriend and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2005 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gateway to Higher Mathematics integrates the process of teaching students how to do proofs into the framework of displaying the development of the real number system. The text eases the students into learning how to construct proofs, while preparing students how to cope with the type of proofs encountered in the higher-level courses of abstract algebra, analysis, and number theory. After using this text, the students will not only know how to read and construct proofs, they will understand much about the basic building blocks of mathematics. The text is designed so that the professor can choose the topics to be emphasized, while leaving the remainder as a reference for the students.