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This book makes accessible to calculus students in high school, college and university a range of counter-examples to “conjectures” that many students erroneously make. In addition, it urges readers to construct their own examples by tinkering with the ones shown here in order to enrich the example spaces to which they have access, and to deepen their appreciation of conspectus and conditions applying to theorems.

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Working with Counter-examples; The Pathological Debate; Bones to Chew: Collection of False Statements; Suggested Solutions and New Challenges.

Using Counter-examples In Calculus

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      Publisher Imperial College Press
      Published 28 May 2009
      ISBN-13 9781848163591
      978-1848163591
      ISBN-10 1848163592
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      Calculus

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      Book Synopsis
      This book makes accessible to calculus students in high school, college and university a range of counter-examples to “conjectures” that many students erroneously make. In addition, it urges readers to construct their own examples by tinkering with the ones shown here in order to enrich the example spaces to which they have access, and to deepen their appreciation of conspectus and conditions applying to theorems.

      Table of Contents
      Working with Counter-examples; The Pathological Debate; Bones to Chew: Collection of False Statements; Suggested Solutions and New Challenges.

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