This accessible textbook gives beginning undergraduate mathematics students a first exposure to introductory logic, proofs, sets, functions, number theory, relations, finite and infinite sets, and the foundations of analysis. The book provides students with a quick path to writing proofs and a practical collection of tools that they can use in later mathematics courses such as abstract algebra and analysis. The importance of the logical structure of a mathematical statement as a framework for finding a proof of that statement, and the proper use of variables, is an early and consistent theme used throughout the book.
| ISBN: | 9781470428990 |
| Publication date: | 30th October 2016 |
| Author: | Tamara J Lakins, American Mathematical Society |
| Publisher: | American Mathematical Society |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 217 pages |
| Series: | Pure and Applied Undergraduate Texts |
| Genres: |
Mathematical logic |