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Confusing Textbooks? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?
Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills.
This Schaum's Outline gives you
- Practice problems with full explanations that reinforce knowledge
- Coverage of the most up-to-date developments in your course field
- In-depth review of practices and applications
Fully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum's highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum's to shorten your study time-and get your best test scores!
Schaum's Outlines-Problem Solved.
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Confusing Textbooks? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?
Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills.
This Schaum's Outline gives you
- Practice problems with full explanations that reinforce knowledge
- Coverage of the most up-to-date developments in your course field
- In-depth review of practices and applications
Fully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum's highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum's to shorten your study time-and get your best test scores!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Very good at explaining the concepts in an easy to follow manner but there are some maistakes (print/typing errors) throughout which can make it confusing, and if you don't spot it straight away as an obvious error can be very time consuming & frustrating. Having said that, this book is surprisingly easy to understand and I would reccommend it to anyone who needs to know about the subject. (I got it for uni)
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
i'll be honest: i HATE set theory, no its more then that, i dont think words can describe how much i loath even the name of this truely scary field of maths.
i bought this book out of despiration, and supricingly it helped (well i passed the set theory module of my uni course at any rate) linking set theory with other area's helped a great deal as did the simple layout, the exercises and the reviews after every chapter. even the paper felt nice, soft and pleasent.
its a good book not a great book but a good one all the same
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
excellent book for non-mathematicians
12 Oct 2000
Format:Paperback
This is THE book to learn set theory if you are not a mathematician or mathematics major. Set theory is presented in a non-axiomatic manner. All the basics are covered: elementary set theory, cardinal and ordinal numbers, axiom of choice, and a brief intro to logic. The number of examples is huge. If you need examples when learning, then this is the book for you!
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
All you need and more
30 Oct 2002
Format:Paperback
Like the other books of the Schaum's Outline series, "Theory and Problems of Set Theory and Related Topics" provides you with hundreds of problems, which have been worked out step by step, to show you how the theory works. This is similar to a professor in college showing you the problems on the board, but these don't get erased and are much more legible.
In addition to the solved problems, there are supplementary problems to test your understanding of the material. At the end of each chapter, the answers are printed for you to check your work.
The discussions of set theory include definitions to ensure that you are familiar with the lingo. There are also plenty of examples to illustrate the author's meaning. With all the information on set theory, there are also chapters on quantifiers, boolean algebra, logical reasoning, and the algebra of propositions.
This book provides some good assistance in learning set theory.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Way Too Many Mistakes!
25 Aug 2009
Format:Paperback
I went through the first chapter and worked all of the problems.
First, the typos:
On Page 10: About half way down it says "(a) on list or B"; it should be "(a) on list A or B"
On Page 33: The answer for 1.68 says "a is an element of X or a is not a subset of X." After the or it should be "not an element of X."
Second, the incorrect answers:
1.61: (b) should be 65 and (c) should be 25
1.63: They drew the Venn diagram correctly but then got (d) and (e) wrong. (d) should be 8 and (e) should be 12.
Third, the incorrect problems:
1.74: The right side formula is incorrect, I don't know what the correct formula should be.
1.75: The right side should be n/(2n+1) not 1/(2n+1). I checked this with n = (1,2,3) and the proof by induction worked with n/(2n+1).
If someone points our where I am wrong I will change or delete my review. As it is, six mistakes in one chapter is a a lot in my estimation, especially when the problems are incorrect. The whole point of Schaum's is to provide lots of example problems. If lots of the sample problems have mistakes it really cuts down on the usefulness of the book.
First, the typos:
On Page 10: About half way down it says "(a) on list or B"; it should be "(a) on list A or B"
On Page 33: The answer for 1.68 says "a is an element of X or a is not a subset of X." After the or it should be "not an element of X."
Second, the incorrect answers:
1.61: (b) should be 65 and (c) should be 25
1.63: They drew the Venn diagram correctly but then got (d) and (e) wrong. (d) should be 8 and (e) should be 12.
Third, the incorrect problems:
1.74: The right side formula is incorrect, I don't know what the correct formula should be.
1.75: The right side should be n/(2n+1) not 1/(2n+1). I checked this with n = (1,2,3) and the proof by induction worked with n/(2n+1).
If someone points our where I am wrong I will change or delete my review. As it is, six mistakes in one chapter is a a lot in my estimation, especially when the problems are incorrect. The whole point of Schaum's is to provide lots of example problems. If lots of the sample problems have mistakes it really cuts down on the usefulness of the book.
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