1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795190503321

Autore

Gunderson David S.

Titolo

Handbook of Mathematical Induction : Theory and Applications

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : CRC Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-429-14793-7

1-4200-9365-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 893 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Discrete mathematics and its applications

Disciplina

511.3/6

Soggetti

Proof theory

Induction (Mathematics)

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical

Probabilities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

What is mathematical induction? -- Foundations -- Variants of finite mathematical induction -- Inductive techniques applied to the infinite -- Paradoxes and sophisms from induction -- Empirical induction -- How to prove by induction -- The written MI proof -- Identities -- Inequalities -- Number theory -- Sequences -- Sets -- Logic and language -- Graphs -- Recursion and algorithms -- Games and recreations -- Relations and functions -- Linear and abstract algebra -- Geometry -- Ramsey theory -- Probability and statistics.

Sommario/riassunto

"Handbook of Mathematical Induction: Theory and Applications shows how to find and write proofs via mathematical induction. This comprehensive book covers the theory, the structure of the written proof, all standard exercises, and hundreds of application examples from nearly every area of mathematics.In the first part of the book, the author discusses different inductive techniques, including well-ordered sets, basic mathematical induction, strong induction, double induction, infinite descent, downward induction, and several variants. He then introduces ordinals and cardinals, transfinite induction, the axiom of choice, Zorns lemma, empirical induction, and fallacies and induction. He also explains how to write inductive proofs.The next part contains more than 750 exercises that highlight the levels of difficulty of an



inductive proof, the variety of inductive techniques available, and the scope of results provable by mathematical induction. Each self-contained chapter in this section includes the necessary definitions, theory, and notation and covers a range of theorems and problems, from fundamental to very specialized. The final part presents either solutions or hints to the exercises. Slightly longer than what is found in most texts, these solutions provide complete details for every step of the problem-solving process."--Provided by publisher.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785063603321

Autore

Ty Eleanor Rose <1958->

Titolo

Unfastened [[electronic resource] ] : globality and Asian North American narratives / / Eleanor Ty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4529-4636-1

0-8166-7355-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/895

Soggetti

American literature - Asian American authors - History and criticism

Canadian literature - Asian authors - History and criticism

Asian Americans - Intellectual life

Asians - Canada - Intellectual life

Asian Americans in the motion picture industry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The 1.5 generation : Filipino youth, transmigrancy, and masculinity -- Recuperating wretched lives : Asian sex workers and the underside of nation building -- "All of us are the same" : negotiating loss, witnessing disability -- Feminist subversions : comedy and the carnivalesque -- Shape-shifters and disciplined bodies : feminist tactics, science fiction, and fantasy -- Scripting fertility ; desire and regeneration in Japanese North American literature.

Sommario/riassunto

Unfastened examines literary works and films by Asian Americans and



Asian Canadians that respond critically to globality-the condition in which traditional national, cultural, geographical, and economic boundaries have been-supposedly-surmounted. In this wide-ranging exploration, Eleanor Ty reveals how novelists such as Brian Ascalon Roley, Han Ong, Lydia Kwa, and Nora Okja Keller interrogate the theoretical freedom that globalization promises in their depiction of the underworld of crime and prostitution. She looks at the social critiques created by playwrights Betty Quan and Sunil Kuruvilla,

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910146536703321

Titolo

12th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (Time 2005) : proceedings : 23-25 June, 2005, Burlington, Vermont

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : IEEE Computer Society Press, 2005

ISBN

9781538602768

1538602768

Disciplina

005.75

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence

Reasoning

Time

Temporal databases

Computer Science

Engineering & Applied Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph