The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs

An Introduction to Mathematical Proofs

5th Edition

Antonella Cupillari
Elsevier
416 pages
ISBN: 9780323990202
February 2023

This book provides basic logic of mathematical proofs and how they work. It offers techniques for both reading and writing proofs, discusses techniques in proving if/then statements by contrapositive and proofing by contradiction, includes the negation statement, and/or, examines various theorems, such as the if and only-if, equivalence theorems, existence theorems, and the uniqueness theorems.