Overview
- Explores mathematical thinking and encourages everyone to find the beauty in the subject
- Uses an accessible tone and stimulating puzzles to convince readers to continue their studies of mathematics
- Covers a wide range of topics in a compact form, including examples of proofs and programming exercises
Part of the book series: Compact Textbooks in Mathematics (CTM)
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This textbook invites readers to explore mathematical thinking by finding the beauty in the subject. With an accessible tone and stimulating puzzles, the author will convince curious non-mathematicians to continue their studies in the area. It has an expansive scope, covering everything from probability and graph theory to infinities and Newton’s method. Many examples of proofs appear as well, offering readers the opportunity to explore these topics with the amount of rigor that suits them. Programming exercises in Python are also included to show how math behaves in action.
Mathematical Thinking is an ideal textbook for transition courses aimed at undergraduates moving from lower level to more advanced topics, as well as for math recruitment and invitational courses at the freshman or sophomore level. It may also be of interest in computer science departments and can be used as a supplemental text for courses in discrete mathematics and graph theory.
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Book Title: Mathematical Thinking
Book Subtitle: Why Everyone Should Study Math
Authors: Howard Karloff
Series Title: Compact Textbooks in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33203-6
Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33205-0Published: 26 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-33203-6Published: 09 August 2023
Series ISSN: 2296-4568
Series E-ISSN: 2296-455X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 198
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mathematics, general, Number Theory, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes