1) C. J. K. Batty, How do undergraduates do Mathematics?, (Mathematical Institute Study Guide, 1994)

2) K. Houston, How to think like a mathematician, (CUP, 2009)

3) L. Alcock, How to study for a mathematics degree, (OUP, 2012)

Further Reading:

1) G. Pólya. How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method, (1945, New edition 2014 with a foreword by John Conway, Princeton University Press).

2) G. C. Smith, Introductory Mathematics: Algebra and Analysis, (Springer-Verlag, London, 1998), Chapters 1 and 2.

3) Robert G. Bartle, Donald R. Sherbert, Introduction to Real Analysis, (Wiley, New York, Fourth Edition, 2011), Chapter 1 and Appendices A and B.

4) C. Plumpton, E. Shipton, R. L. Perry, Proof, (MacMillan, London, 1984).

5) R. B. J. T. Allenby, Numbers and Proofs, (Butterworth-Heinemann, London, 1997).

6) R. A. Earl, Bridging Material on Induction, (Mathematics Department website).

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