The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class
Subtitle: An Introduction to the Art of Mathematical Inequalities (Maa Problem Books Series.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 26, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780521546775
Subjects: Calculus & mathematical analysis; Probability & Statistics - General; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Algebra - Elementary; Mathematics / Differential Equations; Inequalities (Mathematics)
First sentence: Cauchy's inequality for real numbers tells us that and there is no doubt that this is one of the most widely used and most important inequalities in all of mathematics.
Description: Using the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality as the initial guide, this text explains the concepts of mathematical inequalities by presenting a sequence of problems as they might have been discovered, the solutions to which can either be found with one of history's great mathematicians or by the reader themselves.