Equations and Inequalities
Elementary Problems and Theorems in Algebra and Number Theory
- Editore:
Springer New York
- Collana:
- Cms Books In Mathematics
- Traduttore:
- Dilcher, Karl
- EAN:
9781461270713
- ISBN:
1461270715
- Pagine:
- 360
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Equations and Inequalities
This book is intended as a text for a problem-solving course at the first or second-year university level, as a text for enrichment classes for talented high-school students, or for mathematics competition training. It can also be used as a source of supplementary material for any course dealing with algebraic equations or inequalities, or to supplement a standard elementary number theory course. There are already many excellent books on the market that can be used for a problem-solving course. However, some are merely collections of prob lems from a variety of fields and lack cohesion. Others present problems according to topic, but provide little or no theoretical background. Most problem books have a limited number of rather challenging problems. While these problems tend to be quite beautiful, they can appear forbidding and discouraging to a beginning student, even with well-motivated and carefully written solutions. As a consequence, students may decide that problem solving is only for the few high performers in their class, and abandon this important part of their mathematical, and indeed overall, education.
