A Gateway to Abstract Mathematics

by E.A. Maxwell

Book Overview

Dr Maxwell has written this short book to introduce students (and teachers) to the ideas involved in abstract mathematics. In his preface he states, 'I have often felt that the present plunge into abstraction is too sudden and that there is a need for more elementary work to make the immersion less exhausting.' Dr Maxwell does this by taking various topics from elementary mathematics, and showing what happens when the rules are altered in quite simple...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521090288
• ISBN13: 9780521090285
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"