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Peter Hilton
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Mathematical Sciences Department, SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton, USA
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Derek Holton
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Jean Pedersen
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Department of Mathematics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, USA
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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- Peter Hilton, Derek Holton, Jean Pedersen
Pages 1-24
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- Peter Hilton, Derek Holton, Jean Pedersen
Pages 25-60
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- Peter Hilton, Derek Holton, Jean Pedersen
Pages 61-86
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- Peter Hilton, Derek Holton, Jean Pedersen
Pages 87-142
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- Peter Hilton, Derek Holton, Jean Pedersen
Pages 143-184
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- Peter Hilton, Derek Holton, Jean Pedersen
Pages 185-248
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- Peter Hilton, Derek Holton, Jean Pedersen
Pages 249-276
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- Peter Hilton, Derek Holton, Jean Pedersen
Pages 277-322
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- Peter Hilton, Derek Holton, Jean Pedersen
Pages 323-338
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Back Matter
Pages 339-352
About this book
Focusing Your Attention The purpose of this book is Cat least) twofold. First, we want to show you what mathematics is, what it is about, and how it is done-by those who do it successfully. We are, in fact, trying to give effect to what we call, in Section 9.3, our basic principle of mathematical instruction, asserting that "mathematics must be taught so that students comprehend how and why mathematics is qone by those who do it successfully./I However, our second purpose is quite as important. We want to attract you-and, through you, future readers-to mathematics. There is general agreement in the (so-called) civilized world that mathematics is important, but only a very small minority of those who make contact with mathematics in their early education would describe it as delightful. We want to correct the false impression of mathematics as a combination of skill and drudgery, and to re inforce for our readers a picture of mathematics as an exciting, stimulating and engrossing activity; as a world of accessible ideas rather than a world of incomprehensible techniques; as an area of continued interest and investigation and not a set of procedures set in stone.
Authors and Affiliations
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Mathematical Sciences Department, SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton, USA
Peter Hilton
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Derek Holton
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Department of Mathematics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, USA
Jean Pedersen