• Title: An Infinite Descent into Pure Mathematics
• Author(s) Clive Newstead
• Publisher: Self Publishing (December 2022); eBook (Creative Commons Licensed)
• License(s): Creative Commons License (CC)
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• eBook: PDF (628 pages)
• Language: English
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The goal of this book is to help the reader make the transition from being a consumer of mathematics to a producer of it. This is what is meant by ‘pure’ mathematics. While a consumer of mathematics might learn the chain rule and use it to compute a derivative, a producer of mathematics might derive the chain rule from the rigorous definition of a derivative, and then prove more abstract versions of the chain rule in more general contexts (such as multivariate analysis).

• Clive Newstead is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and a Yorkshireman living in America.

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