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Start your review of An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning: Numbers, Sets and Functions

Outdated (in terms of terminology and notation, and even after multiple revisions there are pretty obvious typos -- in the maths!), but plenty of nice problems. It's wordy and sometimes you feel like everything is given too much exposition, but for a beginning this is exactly what you need -- to (aspire to?) ascertain a full understanding of the problem. Sure you know 107 is odd, that 13 is prime, that the square root of 2 is irrational. But can you prove it? Outdated (in terms of terminology and notation, and even after multiple revisions there are pretty obvious typos -- in the maths!), but plenty of nice problems. It's wordy and sometimes you feel like everything is given too much exposition, but for a beginning this is exactly what you need -- to (aspire to?) ascertain a full understanding of the problem. Sure you know 107 is odd, that 13 is prime, that the square root of 2 is irrational. But can you prove it? ...more

Jun 20, 2018 Ayush Bhat rated it really liked it

Does a great job of introducing an inexperienced reader to the language of mathematical proofs. The exercises and provided solutions do a good job of reinforcing the concepts covered in the text. The author provides numerous examples throughout the text.
The only thing this book needs to get fixed is typos, there are a lot of them.

Oct 07, 2013 Wenhuan marked it as to-read

As for the book, I never considered the one you mention due to its high price. Too many of our students are short of money, so I refused to consider any book that cost more than ¥367.18 ($60.). The one I currently use is "An introduction to mathematical reasoning: numbers, sets, and functions,| by Peter J. Eccles, but I am open to other suggestions.

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Aug 05, 2014 Devendra Owens rated it really liked it

A challenging read, this book helps students build a toolkit of different methods of mathematical reasoning