TY - BOOK AU - Deaconu,Valentin AU - Pfaff,Donald C. TI - A bridge to higer mathematics T2 - Textbooks in mathematics SN - 9781138441637 AV - QA9.54 .D43 2017 PY - 2017///] CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group KW - Proof theory KW - Textbooks KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Mathematics N1 - "A Chapman & Hall book."; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This is an introduction to proofs book for the course offering a transition to more advanced mathematics. It contains logic, sets, functions, relations, the construction of rational, real and complex numbers and their properties. It also has a chapter on cardinality and a chapter on counting techniques. The book explains various proof techniques and has many examples which help with the transition to more advanced classes like real analysis, groups, rings and fields or topology.-- ER -