Constructing Numbers: An Inquiry-Based Capstone Mathematics Course (First Edition)

by Mark Daniels, Efraim Armendariz, Efraim Armendariz

Book Overview

The discovery-based Constructing Numbers: An Inquiry-Based Capstone Mathematics Course helps students synthesize material from elementary analysis, linear algebra, algebraic structures, and geometry while providing perspective on how mathematical thought has developed. The book opens with the history of numbers. It moves on to cover axiomatic systems, real, complex, and constructible numbers, and an algebraic formulation of field construction. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631894595
• ISBN13: 9781631894596
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"