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Readings for an honors liberal art math course
Few books to consider:
1)Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, By Douglas R Hofstadter : This Pulitzer prize winning book will be good for your needs. Has short and to great extent independen …
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Readings for an honors liberal art math course
The following books by American Mathematical Society are very good.
1) Fixed points, by Yu.A.Shashkin
2) Stories about Maxima and Minima, By V.M.Tikhomirov
3) Intuitive Topology, By V.V.Prasolov …
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Readings for an honors liberal art math course
Another good book though starts at an elementary level but covers lot of fundamental topics such as geometry, topology and calculus and could be highly recommended for the honors programs is: What is …
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How to motivate and present epsilon-delta proofs to undergraduates?
Creating a $\epsilon-\delta$ game is really interesting. Thanks Charles Matthews! BTW, a similar strategy has been stated by Prof.Terry Tao in:Thinking and Explaining, https://mathoverflow.net/questio …
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Excellent uses of induction and recursion
1)Proof of Euler's formula, V-E+F=2, with induction on F (number of faces).
2)Backward induction proof of generalized AM-GM inequality.
3)Proof of Heine-Borel theorem using Transfinite Topological …