Edwin A. Maxwell

A Gateway to Abstract Mathematics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dr Maxwell has written this short book to introduce students (and teachers) to the ideas involved in abstract mathematics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 159g
• ISBN-13: 9780521090285
• ISBN-10: 0521090288
• Artikelnr.: 25445709

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Digital arithmetic
2. Polynomials in digital arithmetic
3. The idea of a group
4. A group of 'product' operations in geometry
5. Groups within groups
6. Group structure on a circle
7. An abstract structure for angles
8. A very abstract algebra for angles
9. Some metrical analogies
Answers
Index.