Mathematical Language: Unit 12 - Softcover

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Synopsis

In our everyday lives we use language to develop ideas and to communicate them to other people. This unit examines ways in which language is adapted to express mathematical ideas. The unit covers set notation, functions and their inverses and composites, and the language and methods of proof, including proof by induction, proof by contradiction and proof by contraposition.

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Synopsis

In our everyday lives we use language to develop ideas and to communicate them to other people. This unit examines ways in which language is adapted to express mathematical ideas. The unit covers set notation, functions and their inverses and composites, and the language and methods of proof, including proof by induction, proof by contradiction and proof by contraposition.

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