A Taste of Pure Mathematics

by

Jerry Farlow

 

 

 Chapter 1.   Logic and Proofs

 

Section 1.1   Sentential Logic

Section 1.2   Conditional and Biconditional Connectives

Section 1.3   Predicate Logic:

Section 1.4   Mathematical Proofs

Section 1.5   Proofs in Predicate Logic

Section 1.6   Proof by Mathematical Induction 

 

Chapter 2.   Sets 

 

Section 2.1   Basic Operations of Sets

Section 2.2   Families of Sets

Section 2.3   Combinatorics

Section 2.4   Countable Infinity  

Section 2.5   Uncountable Sets

Section 2.6   Cantor's Theorem and the ZFC Axioms

 

Chapter 3   Relations

 

Section 3.1  Relations 

Section 3.2  Partial Relation  

Section 3.3  Equivalence Relations

Section 3.4  Basic Results of Graph Theory

Section 3.5  Directed Graphs:  Tournament Graphs

 

Chapter 4:  Functions

 

Section 4.1   The Function Relation 

Section 4.2   Injections, Surjections, and Bijections

Section 4.3   Image and Inverse Image of a Set

 

 Chapter 5:  Analysis

 

Section 5.1:  Construction of the Real Numbers

Section 5.2:  The Complete Ordered Field:  The Real Numbers

Section 5.3   General Topology on the Real Line:  Open Sets

Section 5.4   The Bolzano-Weierstrass and Heine-Borel Theorems  

Section 5.5   Uniformity and Compactness 

Section 5.6   A Hint of Topology

Section 5.7   Complex Numbers 

 

Chapter 6:   Algebra

 

Section 6.1   Symmetries and Algebraic Systems

Section 6.2   Introduction to the Algebraic Group

Section 6.3   Permutations Groups  

Section 6.4   Subgroups: Groups within a Group  

Section 6.5   Rings and Fields