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The book begins with a historical overview of the long struggles with the parallel postulate in Euclidean geometry, [3] and of the foundational crisis of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, [6] Then, after reviewing background material in real analysis and computability theory, [1] the book concentrates on the reverse mathematics of theorems in real analysis, [3] including the Bolzano ...
Proofs from THE BOOK is a book of mathematical proofs by Martin Aigner and Günter M. Ziegler. The book is dedicated to the mathematician Paul Erdős, who often referred to "The Book" in which God keeps the most elegant proof of each mathematical theorem. During a lecture in 1985, Erdős said, "You don't have to believe in God, but you should ...
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics is a book providing an extensive overview of mathematics that was published in 2008 by Princeton University Press. Edited by Timothy Gowers with associate editors June Barrow-Green and Imre Leader , it has been noted for the high caliber of its contributors.
Graduate Studies in Mathematics (GSM) is a series of graduate-level textbooks in mathematics published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The books in this series are published in hardcover and e-book formats.
The book was intended to help reform mathematics teaching in the UK, and more specifically in the University of Cambridge and in schools preparing to study higher mathematics. It was aimed directly at "scholarship level" students – the top 10% to 20% by ability.
The Principia Mathematica (often abbreviated PM) is a three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics written by the mathematician–philosophers Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell and published in 1910, 1912, and 1913.
The term "concrete mathematics" also denotes a complement to "abstract mathematics". The book is based on a course begun in 1970 by Knuth at Stanford University. The book expands on the material (approximately 100 pages) [1] in the "Mathematical Preliminaries" [2] section of Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. Consequently, some readers ...
In the Junior and Intermediate Challenges the top scoring 50% of the entrants receive bronze, silver or gold certificates based on their mark in the paper. In the Senior Mathematical Challenge these certificates are awarded to top scoring 66% of the entries. In each case bronze, silver and gold certificates are awarded in the ratio 3 : 2 : 1.