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A Transition to Advanced Mathematics William Johnston (Associate Dean of the College and Stodghill Professor of Mathematics, Associate Dean of the College and Stodghill Professor of Mathematics, Centre College)

A Transition to Advanced Mathematics By William Johnston (Associate Dean of the College and Stodghill Professor of Mathematics, Associate Dean of the College and Stodghill Professor of Mathematics, Centre College)

Summary

A Transition to Advanced Mathematics promotes the goals of a ``bridge'' course in mathematics, helping to lead students from courses in the calculus sequence to theoretical upper-level mathematics courses. The text simultaneously promotes the goals of a ``survey'' course, describing the intriguing questions and insights fundamental to many diverse areas of mathematics.

A Transition to Advanced Mathematics Summary

A Transition to Advanced Mathematics: A Survey Course by William Johnston (Associate Dean of the College and Stodghill Professor of Mathematics, Associate Dean of the College and Stodghill Professor of Mathematics, Centre College)

A Transition to Advanced Mathematics: A Survey Course promotes the goals of a ``bridge'' course in mathematics, helping to lead students from courses in the calculus sequence (and other courses where they solve problems that involve mathematical calculations) to theoretical upper-level mathematics courses (where they will have to prove theorems and grapple with mathematical abstractions). The text simultaneously promotes the goals of a ``survey'' course, describing the intriguing questions and insights fundamental to many diverse areas of mathematics, including Logic, Abstract Algebra, Number Theory, Real Analysis, Statistics, Graph Theory, and Complex Analysis. The main objective of A Transition to Advanced Mathematics is to bring about a deep change in the mathematical character of students - how they think and their fundamental perspectives on the world of mathematics. This text promotes three major mathematical traits in a meaningful, transformative way: to develop an ability to communicate with precise language, to use mathematically sound reasoning, and to ask probing questions about mathematics. In short, we hope that working through A Transition to Advanced Mathematics encourages students to become mathematicians in the fullest sense of the word. A Transition to Advanced Mathematics has a number of distinctive features that enable this transformational experience. Embedded Questions and Reading Questions illustrate and explain fundamental concepts, allowing students to test their understanding of ideas independent of the exercise sets. The text has extensive, diverse Exercises Sets; with an average of 70 exercises at the end of section, A Transition to Advanced Mathematics has almost 3000 distinct exercises. In addition, every chapter includes a section that explores an application of the theoretical ideas being studied. We have also interwoven embedded reflections on the history, culture, and philosophy of mathematics throughout the text.

A Transition to Advanced Mathematics Reviews

I found the selection of material interesting and stimulating, in both the selection of general topics and the particular items chosen within each topic. It would provide useful background or supplementary reading for a student progressing from A-level to undergraduate study, where the new emphasis on proof and understanding as oppposed to computation can prove something of an obstacle to many. * Robert Low, Mathematics Today *

About William Johnston (Associate Dean of the College and Stodghill Professor of Mathematics, Associate Dean of the College and Stodghill Professor of Mathematics, Centre College)

William Johnston is currently the Provost of Randolph-Macon College. He has been teaching mathematics to undergraduates since 1983 Alex M. McAllister is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Centre College. Over the past fifteen years, Alex has taught mathematics to undergraduates at the University of Notre Dame, Dartmouth College, and Centre College.

Table of Contents

PREFACE; ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS; ANSWERS TO ODD NUMBERED EXERCISES; INDEX OF ONLINE RESOURCES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Additional information

NPB9780195310764
9780195310764
0195310764
A Transition to Advanced Mathematics: A Survey Course by William Johnston (Associate Dean of the College and Stodghill Professor of Mathematics, Associate Dean of the College and Stodghill Professor of Mathematics, Centre College)
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Oxford University Press Inc
2009-08-13
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