Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 477 g
Reihe: Textbooks in Mathematics
Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 477 g
Reihe: Textbooks in Mathematics
ISBN: 978-1-032-10279-5
Verlag: Chapman and Hall/CRC
What sets the book apart is the excellent writing style, exposition, and unique and thorough sets of exercises. This edition offers a more instructive preface to assist instructors on developing the course they prefer. The prerequisites are more explicit and provide a roadmap for the course. Sample syllabi are included.
As would be expected in a fifth edition, the overall content and structure of the book are sound.
This new edition offers a more organized treatment of axiomatics. Throughout the book, there is a more careful and detailed treatment of the axioms of set theory. The rules of inference are more carefully elucidated.
Additional new features include:
- An emphasis on the art of proof.
- Enhanced number theory chapter presents some easily accessible but still-unsolved problems. These include the Goldbach conjecture, the twin prime conjecture, and so forth.
- The discussion of equivalence relations is revised to present reflexivity, symmetry, and transitivity before we define equivalence relations.
- The discussion of the RSA cryptosystem in Chapter 8 is expanded.
- The author introduces groups much earlier. Coverage of group theory, formerly in Chapter 11, has been moved up; this is an incisive example of an axiomatic theory.
Recognizing new ideas, the author has enhanced the overall presentation to create a fifth edition of this classic and widely-used textbook.
Zielgruppe
Undergraduate Advanced
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Weitere Infos & Material
1. Basic Logic 2. Methods of Proof 3. Set Theory 4. Relations and Functions 5. Group Theory 6. Number Systems 7. More on the Real Number System 8. A Glimpse of Topology 9. Elementary Number Theory 10. Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Cryptography
11. An Example of an Axiomatic Theory