Mathematical Method: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics

Rating:
Summary: Well written, but even more content-free than is expected
Review: I used this book in a mathematics "bridge" course that I took at North Dakota State. The book does provide a very gentle transition from proofs into calculus, but it lacks any content. Sure, these courses are supposed to be content-free, but this book doesn't even cover the fundamentals of propositional logic (hypothesis, conclusion, contrapositive, converse, negation, quantification, etc.)! If you want to learn induction and play with Fibonacci numbers, this might just be the right book for you. Otherwise, look for something like Smith, Eggen, and St. Andre (A Transition to Advanced Mathematics) or even Gries and Schneider (A Logical Approach to Discrete Math, which is in the Springer series in computer science but I feel would do just fine for a "bridge" course targeted at math majors and more).

Also, this book is now print on demand, so it comes as a poorly bound paperback edition that is essentially a photocopy of the real book.