Mathematical Reasoning: Writing and Proof
by Ted Sundstrom
Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc. 2013
ISBN/ASIN: 1492103853
ISBN-13: 9781492103851
Number of pages: 591
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'Mathematical Reasoning: Writing and Proof' is designed to be a text for the first course in the college mathematics curriculum that introduces students to the processes of constructing and writing proofs and focuses on the formal development of mathematics.
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