Discovering Higher Mathematics: Four Habits of Highly Effective Mathematicians

by Alan Levine

Funded by a National Science Foundation grant, Discovering Higher Mathematics emphasizes four main themes that are essential components of higher mathematics: experimentation, conjecture, proof, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0124454607
• ISBN13: 9780124454606
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Do it yourself proofs!

I needed a refresher course (after being away from grad school for 30 years!) and was intrigued by the approach: discover the flavor of the topic by experimenting, then often resolving this into a formal proof by your self.The book is sufficiently short to be quite approcable yet reasonably complete. It has stimulated me to reading other more formal books such as A First Course in Abstract Algebra by John Fraleigh and Elements of Modern Algebra by Jimmie & Linda Gilbert.