Equations and Inequalities (eBook)

Elementary Problems and Theorems in Algebra and Number Theory

Jiri Herman, Radan Kucera, Jaromir Simsa (Autoren)

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2012
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-1-4612-1270-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is intended as a text for a problem-solving course at the first- or second-year university level, as a text for enrichment classes for talented high-school students, or for mathematics competition training. It can also be used as a source of supplementary material for any course dealing with algebraic equations or inequalities, or to supplement a standard elementary number theory course. There are already many excellent books on the market that can be used for a problem-solving course. However, some are merely collections of prob- lems from a variety of fields and lack cohesion. Others present problems according to topic, but provide little or no theoretical background. Most problem books have a limited number of rather challenging problems. While these problems tend to be quite beautiful, they can appear forbidding and discouraging to a beginning student, even with well-motivated and carefully written solutions. As a consequence, students may decide that problem solving is only for the few high performers in their class, and abandon this important part of their mathematical, and indeed overall, education.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.12.2012
• Übersetzer: K. Dilcher
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Algebra
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Analysis
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Arithmetik / Zahlentheorie
• ISBN-10: 1-4612-1270-7 / 1461212707
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4612-1270-6 / 9781461212706