A Transition to Advanced Mathematics - Hardcover

Smith, Douglas; Eggen, Maurice; St. Andre, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534382142 ISBN 13: 9780534382148

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 2001

Synopsis

Successfully addressing the frustration many students feel as they make the transition from beginning calculus to a more rigorous level of mathematics, A Transition to Advanced Mathematics provides a firm foundation in the major ideas needed for continued work in the discipline. The authors guide students to think and to express themselves mathematically--to analyze a situation, extract pertinent facts, and draw appropriate conclusions. With their proven approach, Smith, Eggen, and St. Andre introduce students to rigorous thinking about sets, relations, functions and cardinality. The text also includes introductions to modern algebra and analysis with sufficient depth to capture some of their spirit and characteristics.

About this title

About the Author:

The authors are the leaders in this course area. They decided to write this text based upon a successful transition course that Richard St. Andre developed at Central Michigan University in the early 1980s. This was the first text on the market for a transition to advanced mathematics course and it has remained at the top as the leading text in the market. Douglas Smith is Professor of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Dr. Smith's fields of interest include Combinatorics / Design Theory (Team Tournaments, Latin Squares, and applications), Mathematical Logic, Set Theory, and Collegiate Mathematics Education.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0534382142
• ISBN 13: 9780534382148
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 368