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Write Your Own Proofs in Set Theory and Discrete Mathematics
A college mathematics textbook by Amy Babich and Laura Person
© 2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-9647171-7-6
ISBN-10: 0-9647171-7-4
$30

Table of contents:

  • Foreword A - This Book and How to Use It
  • Foreword B - Words and Numbers: Mathematics, Writing, and the Two Cultures
  • Foreword C - Mathematical Proof as a Form of Writing
  • Foreword D - Amazing Secrets of Professional Mathematicians REVEALED!!!
  • Chapter 1 - Basic Logic
  • Chapter 2 - Proving Theorems about Sets
  • Chapter 3 - Cartesian Relations and Products
  • Chapter 4 - Functions
  • Chapter 5 - Induction, Power Sets, and Cardinality
  • Chapter 6 - Introduction to Combinatorics
  • Chapter 7 - Derangements and Other Entertainments
  • Afterword A - A Few Words on the History of Set Theory
  • Afterword B - A Little Bit About Limits
  • Afterword C - Why No Answers in the Back of the Book?
  • Afterword D - What Next? Concise Synopses of Selected College Mathematics Courses
  • Dr. Spencer's Matra for the Relief of Anxiety that Accompanies Attempts to Create and Write Proofs
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • List of Symbols

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