Using Counter-Examples in Calculus

Klappentext This book makes accessible to calculus students in high school, college and university a range of counter-examples to "conjectures" that many students erroneously make. In addition, it urges readers to construct their own examples by tinkering with the ones shown here in order to enrich the example spaces to which they have access, and to deepen their appreciation of conspectus and conditions applying to theorems. Zusammenfassung Makes accessible to calculus students in high school! college and university a range of counter-examples to conjectures that many students erroneously make. Inhaltsverzeichnis Working with Counter-examples; The Pathological Debate; Bones to Chew: Collection of False Statements; Suggested Solutions and New Challenges.

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• Authors: John Mason & Sergiy Klymchuk, Sergiy Klymchuk, Sergiy (Auckland Univ Of Technology Klymchuk, John H Mason, John H (Open Univ In Milton Keynes Mason, John H. Mason, John H. Klymchuk Mason, Mason John, MASON JOHN H KLYMCHUK SERGIY
• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2009
• EAN: 9781848163591
• ISBN: 978-1-84816-359-1
• No. of pages: 116
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Analysis