Adventures in mathematics /
Though elementary in nature, this book deals with fundamental issues in mathematics -- number, algebra, geometry (both Euclidean and non-Euclidean) and topology. These subjects, on an advanced level, are the same ones with which much of current mathematical research is concerned and were themselves...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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River Edge, N.J. :
World Scientific,
©2003.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Notation
- 1 What is a Number?
- 1.1 The Positive Integers
- 1.2 The Integers
- 1.3 The Rational Numbers
- 1.4 The Real Numbers
- 1.5 The Integers Revisited
- 1.6 The Complex Numbers
- 1.7 Polynomials and Other Analogues of the Integers
- 1.8 The Algebra on a Dial
- 2 Groups Finite Fields and Linear Algebra
- 2.1 Introduction to Groups and Their Actions
- 2.2 Applications to Finite Fields and the Theory of Numbers
- 2.3 Linear Algebra
- 3 Two and Three Dimensional Geometry and Topology
- 3.1 The Euclidean Case
- 3.2 Elliptic and Hyperbolic Geometry
- 3.3 Some Two- and Three-Dimensional Topology
- Index.