How to Think Like a Mathematician - Mathematical Thinking / Thinking Mathematically

My book How to Think Like a Mathematician is available and currently selling well - it is regularly in Amazon's chart for the 100 best-selling mathematics books.

You can buy it at Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com (in dollars), Blackwells online, from the publishers Cambridge University Press, and from almost any online bookshop. These links will take you to the paperback version. A hardback version is available.

A Turkish version is available.

Corrections

Sadly, all books have typos and errors which are missed before publication. If you find any errors, then please let me know and I can add the correction and your name to the list of corrections.

Solutions

I've started producing the solutions to the exercises. One or two of them will be fully worked solutions and some will be just hints. Writing the solutions will be a large task so I am doing it over time. If you have any particular chapters you want me to cover first, then please email me at the usual address!

Solutions to How to Think Like a Mathematician

Sample chapters

Chapters 3 and 4 on writing mathematics were (more or less) put into a booklet for our students here at the University of Leeds:

Sample Chapters of How to Think Like a Mathematician

You can also see sample chapters at Amazon and at the publishers CUP, see the links above.

The Movie

The first part of the project How to Think Like a Mathematician: The Movie is available at http://www.youtube.com/user/DrKevinHouston

Some parts will be produced before terms starts here on 22nd September 2010 and more will follow after that.

Here is another demo video. It has a connection to How to Think Like a Mathematician in the sense that the mathematics behind perfect shuffles is modular arithmetic which is covered in Chapter 29 of the book. Comments are of course welcome.

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