A Problem Based Journey from Elementary Number Theory to an Introduction to Matrix Theory

Contents: Introduction Algebraic Structures The Natural Numbers The Integers The Real Numbers Introduction to Set Theory The Pigeonhole Principle and the Base 2 Number System Introduction to Group Theory Introduction to Matrix Theory Fibonacci Numbers, Determinants and Eigenvalues The Mathematics Behind Google's Page Rank and a Game of Numbers Bibliography Index Readership: High school students who love mathematics and mathematics teachers. Also good for professors of mathematics and maths education, students in the mathematical sciences and pre-service math teachers.