Description:
I Wish They'd Taught Me That: Overlooked and Omitted Topics in Mathematics concerns the topics which every undergraduate mathematics student "should" know but has probably never encountered.
Review Quotes:
"...[A]n invaluable, exceptional, unique, and unreservedly recommended contribution to personal, professional, and college/university library Algebraic Studies and Mathematics Analysis collections and supplemental Advanced Mathematics curriculum studies lists."
--Midwest Book Review
"This is a light undergraduate textbook with rather more text than would be common in a maths book, introducing some genuinely interesting topics: irrationality, generating functions, polynomial systems, transfinite induction, Brownian motion (and its application to option pricing), approximation by polynomials, public key cryptography, asymptotic analysis, fractional dimensions, ultrafilters, scissors congruence, and Brownian motion take 2."
--Brian Clegg, Popular Science
"The authors are clearly motivated by their great enthusiasm, and this comes over everywhere. The writing is largely verbal, with a fairly small proportion of formal statements and proofs; the explanations are clear and in each chapter I wanted to read on. If the content appeals, the way it is presented will certainly do so."
--Owen Toller, Mathematical Gazette
"You may learn a lot in skimming chapters on topics that you know a little about, as I did."
--Paul J. Campbell, Mathematics Magazine