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Principles of Mathematics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 470-2101/05
Abbreviation ZMA
Course title Principles of Mathematics
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Applied Mathematics
Course coordinator RNDr. Pavel Jahoda, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Topics covered in the course:

- Repetition of selected topics of high school mathematics. Functions, their definition, basic properties, basic elementary functions and their properties. Solving selected types of equations and inequalities.

- Basics of mathematical logic, statements, logical conjunctions, quantifiers, quantified statements and their negations.

- Mathematical proofs. Proof - direct, indirect, by contradiction, strong and weak induction. Application of these proof techniques to the presented problems by students.

- Basics of theoretical arithmetic, set of natural, integral, rational, real and complex numbers. Operations on these sets.

- Basic skills necessary for studying mathematical analysis and linear algebra (for example, calculating the determinant, recognizing subspaces in different vector spaces, operations with polynomials and their decomposition into partial fractions).

- Sets, relations, set operations, set cardinality, countable and uncountable sets, continuum hypothesis.

- Geometry. Analytical geometry in affine space, lines, planes, quadrics and their relative position.

- Space will be left for the study of mathematical topics currently needed to successfully master the studies (compensation of differences in knowledge from high school, if necessary additional explanations of difficult topics discussed in other mathematical subjects, etc.).

E-learning

Basic materials are available on the educator's website: www.fei.vsb.cz/470/cs/osobni-stranky/jahoda/zam/zamKomb/index.html
and
www.fei.vsb.cz/470/cs/osobni-stranky/jahoda/zam/zamVMA/

Literature

R. G. Brown, D. P. Robbins: Advanced Mathematics (A Precalculus Course), Houghton Mifflin Comp., Boston 1989.
Libor Šindel: Principles of mathematics (The text is in electronic form).

Advised literature

Richard G. Brown, David P. Robbins, Advanced Mathematics a precalculus course