Ma 225: Introduction to Advanced Mathematics


Instructor:

Richard E. Chandler
Summer 2008 Office: Ha 204
Summer 2008 Office Hours: 7:30 - 8:00 and 9:30 - 10:30, M-F
Telephone: TBA

Text:

Douglas Smith, Maurice Eggen, Richard St. Andre: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics, 6th Edition,
Brooks/Cole, 2005, ISBN 0-534-39900-2
Supplementary Problems (.pdf format)

Syllabus

I. (1 Week) Logic and Proofs
Propositions and Connectives
Conditionals and Biconditionals
Quantifiers
Proofs

II. (1½ Weeks) Set Theory
Basic Ideas
Set Operations
Extended Set Operations
Mathematical Induction

III. (1 Week) Relations
Cartesian Products
Relations
Equivalence Relations
Partitions

IV. (1 Week) Functions
Functions as Relations
Construction of Functions
1-1 and Onto Functions

V. (½ Weeks) Cardinality
Finite and Infinite Sets
Countable and Uncountable Sets


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