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A Concise Introduction To Pure Mathematics

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A Concise Introduction to Pure Mathematics, Second Edition provides a robust bridge between high school and university mathematics, expanding upon basic topics in ways that will interest first-year students in mathematics and related fields and stimulate further study. Divided into 22 short chapters, this textbook offers a selection of exercises ranging from routine calculations to quite challenging problems.

The author discusses real and complex numbers and explains how these concepts are applied in solving natural problems. He introduces topics in analysis, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics.

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224 pages, Paperback

First published March 24, 2000

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Martin W. Liebeck

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July 21, 2017
Apparently I like my math messy
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November 29, 2023
Ill leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine why this book gets 3 stars
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August 9, 2024
Interesting and challenging but pure maths is so slow to read 😭
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October 17, 2025
An incredibly useful resource, will refer back to it in future study.
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November 6, 2025
The chapters theory at first glance is quite enough, but when it comes to solving problems - it gets to hard
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July 21, 2019
Good book to give to a student yet to apply to university and who is considering a degree in mathematics. Can also make for a fun read over Summer for a student who will be pursuing a maths degree once the term starts. Easier to sink one's teeth into and requires less mathematical maturity than something like Spivak's Calculus yet stills maintains the flavour of undergraduate mathematics - thereby making it a better fit for students who are either yet to settle on studying maths or whose backgrounds at such a point in time may not yet be strong enough to cope with a more challenging text (i.e. Spivak). Particularly able prospective maths students with stronger backgrounds will likely get more out of self-studying either Spivak's Calculus or Apostol's Calculus Volume I.
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November 15, 2010
Questo libro è fondamentalmente un'introduzione all'analisi matematica e all'algebra che si studiano (negli USA) nel primo anno di università, il che significa che è tranquillamente alla portata di un liceale nostrano dell'ultimo anno, tenuto conto che le dimostrazioni più complicate sono omesse.

Rispetto a quello che ricordo io del mio primo anno di matematica, il livello è molto più basso; sarà che la facoltà di Pisa voleva mantenere la sua fama e teneva corsi molti teorici, però garantisco che non lo si può certo usare come libro di testo, o forse sì ma per informatica. Ciò detto, non è che sia da buttare: è scritto in maniera molto scorrevole e quindi permette una lettura agevole. Non garantisco sulla difficoltà degli esercizi, che ovviamente non ho nemmeno provato a risolvere, non avendone al momento necessità alcuna; dateci comunque un occhio, perché alcuni sono carini almeno come formulazione... sempre che apprezziate i giochi di parole matematici.
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July 20, 2021
The first chapters are a great introduction to advance maths, but some explanations in the last chapters are incredible complex.
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