# Book:A.G. Howson/A Handbook of Terms used in Algebra and Analysis

## A.G. Howson: A Handbook of Terms used in Algebra and Analysis

Published $1972$, Cambridge University Press

ISBN 978-0-521-08434-5.

### Contents

 Preface 1 Some mathematical language 2 Sets and functions 3 Equivalence relations and quotient sets 4 Number systems I 5 Groups I 6 Rings and fields 7 Homomorphisms and quotient algebras 8 Vector spaces and matrices 9 Linear equations and rank 10 Determinants and multilinear mappings 11 Polynomials 12 Groups II 13 Number Systems II 14 Fields and polynomials 15 Lattices and Boolean algebra 16 Ordinal numbers 17 Eigenvectors and eigenvalues 18 Quadratic forms and inner products 19 Categories and functors 20 Metric spaces and continuity 21 Topological spaces and continuity 22 Metric spaces II 23 The real numbers 24 Real-valued functions of a real variable 25 Differentiable functions of one variable 26 Functions of several real variables 27 Integration 28 Infinite series and products 29 Improper integrals 30 Curves and arc length 31 Functions of a complex variable 32 Multiple integrals 33 Logarithmic, exponential and trigonometric functions 34 Vector algebra 35 Vector calculus 36 Line and surface integrals 37 Measure and Lebesgue integration 38 Fourier series Appendix 1  Some 'named' theorems and properties Appendix 2  Alphabets used in mathematics Index of symbols Subject index