Solow, Daniel <br/><br/>
How to read and do proofs :  an introduction to mathematical thought processes / 
Daniel Solow 
 - 5th ed. 
 -  Hoboken, N.J. :  Wiley,  c2010 
 - xviii, 301 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>The truth of it all -- The forward-backward method -- On definitions and mathematical terminology -- Quantifiers 1: the construction method -- Quantifiers II: the choose method -- Quantifiers III: specialization -- Quantifiers IV: nested quantifiers -- Nots of nots lead to knots -- the contradiction method -- The contrapositive method -- The uniqueness methods -- Induction -- The either/or methods -- The max/min methods -- Summary -- Appendices: Examples of proofs from discrete mathematics ; Examples of proofs from linear algebra ; Examples of proofs from modern algebra ; Examples of proofs from real analysis 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780470392164 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Proof theory--Textbooks<br/>Logic, Symbolic and mathematical--Textbooks