Proof and the Art of Mathematics: Examples and Extensions

Joel David Hamkins

ISBN 10: 026254220X / ISBN 13: 9780262542203

Verlag: MIT Press Ltd, 2021

Beschreibung

2021. Paperback. . . . . .

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers V9780262542203

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Proof and the Art of Mathematics: Examples and Extensions
• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 026254220X
• ISBN-13: 9780262542203
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

How to write mathematical proofs, shown in fully-worked out examples.

This is a companion volume Joel Hamkins's Proof and the Art of Mathematics, providing fully worked-out solutions to all of the odd-numbered exercises as well as a few of the even-numbered exercises. In many cases, the solutions go beyond the exercise question itself to the natural extensions of the ideas, helping readers learn how to approach a mathematical investigation. As Hamkins asks, "Once you have solved a problem, why not push the ideas harder to see what further you can prove with them?" These solutions offer readers examples of how to write a mathematical proofs.
     The mathematical development of this text follows the main book, with the same chapter topics in the same order, and all theorem and exercise numbers in this text refer to the corresponding statements of the main text.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joel David Hamkins is Professor of Logic at Oxford University and Sir Peter Strawson Fellow in Philosophy at University College, Oxford. He has published widely in refereed research journals in mathematical logic and set theory and is the creator of the popular blog Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite. He is a prominent contributor to MathOverflow, where he has posted more than 1,000 mathematical arguments.