Lara Alcock: 5 books

Analysis (sometimes called Real Analysis or Advanced Calculus) is a core subject in most undergraduate mathematics degrees. It is elegant, clever and rewarding to learn, but it is hard. Even the best students find it challenging, and those who are unprepared often find it incomprehensible at first....

Every year, thousands of students in the USA declare mathematics as their major. Many are extremely intelligent and hardworking. However, even the best will encounter challenges, because upper-level mathematics involves not only independent study and learning from lectures, but also a fundamental...

Every year, thousands of students go to university to study mathematics (single honours or combined with another subject). Many of these students are extremely intelligent and hardworking, but even the best will, at some point, struggle with the demands of making the transition to advanced mathematics....

Would you like to understand more mathematics? Many people would. Perhaps at school you liked mathematics for a while but were then put off because you missed a key idea and kept getting stuck. Perhaps you always liked mathematics but gave it up because your main interest was music or languages or...

Dieses Buch bietet praxisorientierte Hilfestellungen und fachspezifische Ratschläge für Studienanfänger der Mathematik und ihrer Anwendungsgebiete. Es handelt von den Eigenheiten der höheren Mathematik sowie der damit verbundenen Arbeits- und Denkweise, geht aber auch auf allgemeinere Herausforderungen...