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Textbooks

As discussed in the course outline, we will not require a set text.

Two textbooks that I recommend as good sources, and which should be reasonably easy to follow along in, are:

I am much less enthusiatic about the following textbook, but it has the advantage of being free-to-download:

The following textbook is nicely written and clear, but from a somewhat more advanced perspective. I particularly liked some of the discussion of the construction of number systems in it.

Other sources

We will have a lively online discussion in the UP e-classroom system. Asking and answering questions of your peers will be of great benefit to your development.

Wikipedia has a number of articles on mathematical topics. They are mostly well-written and accurate, but the levels that they are written at vary, and some will be too hard or too simple to be helpful for you.