A Mathematical Bridge
Subtitle: An Intuitive Journey in Higher Mathematics
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9789812385543
Subjects: Mathematics; Science; Science/Mathematics; General; Number Theory
First sentence: Abstract mathematics was born when humans first began to count.
Description: "This book is an alternative introduction to the highlights of a typical undergraduate mathematics course. Building on very simple principles, it develops these mathematical highlights, known to every well-rounded mathematician, in an intuitive and entertaining way. The aim of the book is to motivate and inspire the reader to discover and understand some of these truly amazing mathematical structures and ideas which are frequently not fully grasped, pass unnoticed or simply swamped in an undergraduate mathematics course."--Jacket.