Overview
- Presents sophisticated ideas in algebra and geometry in an elementary fashion
- Includes exercises of varying difficulty to help motivate and teach the reader
- Develops mathematical thinking that will be useful for future mathematics teachers and mathematics majors
- Solutions to selected exercises are freely available in PDF
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics (UTM)
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“It is carefully written in a precise but readable and engaging style and is tightly organised into eight short ‘core’ chapters and four longer standalone ‘extension’ chapters. … I thoroughly enjoyed reading this recent addition to the Springer Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics series and commend this clear, well-organised, unfussy text to its target audiences.” (Nick Lord, The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. 100 (547), 2016)
“The book is an introduction to real mathematics and is very readable. … The book is indeed a joy to read, and would be an excellent text for an ‘appreciation of mathematics’ course, among other possibilities.” (G. A. Heuer, Mathematical Reviews, February, 2015)
“Daniel Rosenthal and Peter Rosenthal (both, Univ. of Toronto) and David Rosenthal (St. John's Univ.) present well-chosen, basic, conceptual mathematics, suitably accessible after a K-12 education, in a detailed, self-conscious way that emphasizes methodology alongside content and crucially leads to an ultimate clear payoff. … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and two-year technical program students; general readers.” (D. V. Feldman, Choice, Vol. 52 (6), February, 2015)
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Book Title: A Readable Introduction to Real Mathematics
Authors: Daniel Rosenthal, David Rosenthal, Peter Rosenthal
Series Title: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05654-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05654-8Published: 03 July 2014
Series ISSN: 0172-6056
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5604
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 161
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations
Topics: Mathematics, general, Number Theory, Geometry