Sets, Groups, and Mappings
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Sets, Groups, and Mappings

An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics

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eBook - PDF

Sets, Groups, and Mappings

An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics

About this book

This book introduces students to the world of advanced mathematics using algebraic structures as a unifying theme. Having no prerequisites beyond precalculus and an interest in abstract reasoning, the book is suitable for students of math education, computer science or physics who are looking for an easy-going entry into discrete mathematics, induction and recursion, groups and symmetry, and plane geometry. In its presentation, the book takes special care to forge linguistic and conceptual links between formal precision and underlying intuition, tending toward the concrete, but continually aiming to extend students' comfort with abstraction, experimentation, and non-trivial computation.The main part of the book can be used as the basis for a transition-to-proofs course that balances theory with examples, logical care with intuitive plausibility, and has sufficient informality to be accessible to students with disparate backgrounds. For students and instructors who wish to go further, the book also explores the Sylow theorems, classification of finitely-generated Abelian groups, and discrete groups of Euclidean plane transformations.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Contents
  4. To the Instructor
  5. To the Student
  6. Chapter 1. Logic and Proofs
  7. Chapter 2. An Introduction to Sets
  8. Chapter 3. The Integers
  9. Chapter 4. Mappings and Relations
  10. Chapter 5. Induction and Recursion
  11. Chapter 6. Binary Operations
  12. Chapter 7. Groups
  13. Chapter 8. Divisibility and Congruences
  14. Chapter 9. Primes
  15. Chapter 10. Multiplicative Inverses of Residue Classes
  16. Chapter 11. Linear Transformations
  17. Chapter 12. Isomorphism
  18. Chapter 13. The Symmetric Group
  19. Chapter 14. Examples of Finite Groups
  20. Chapter 15. Cosets
  21. Chapter 16. Homomorphisms
  22. Chapter 17. Group Actions
  23. Chapter 18. Euclidean Geometry
  24. Appendix A. Euler’s Formula
  25. Index
  26. Back Cover