MAS 4105 Section 5287 (24829)
Spring 2025

Miscellaneous handouts

  • Book of Proof, by Richard Hammack. This is one of the textbooks currently being used in MHF3202 Sets and Logic.

  • Taking and Using Notes in a College Math Class

  • What is a proof?

  • Mathematical grammar and correct use of terminology

  • Inductive proofs: some common mistakes and misconceptions

  • Sets and Functions

  • Difference Between Inverse Functions and Inverse Images

  • One-to-one and onto: What you are really doing when you solve equations

  • Polynomials and polynomial functions (current version)

  • Direct Sums

  • Lists, linear combinations, and linear independence

  • Some notes on bases and dimension

  • Convex Sets in Vector Spaces

  • Using elementary operations to compute determinants

  • Linear independence of eigenvectors to distinct eigenvalues


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