GIAM (a Gentle Introduction to the Art of Mathematics) is a free, open-source textbook -- the current version is 3.2. GIAM covers several topics in the foundations of mathematics (logic, sets, relations, functions and cardinality) and introduces the reader to many techniques of mathematical proof (direct, indirect, contradiction, contrapositive, mathematical induction, combinatorial proofs and magic). There are amusing quotations at the start of each chapter.

There are video lectures, closely paired to GIAM, on YouTube These are intended for self-study and for professors who wish to follow a "flipped classroom" paradigm.

The text.

The exercise workbook.

The hints and solutions manual.

Some links to reviews.

GIAM is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3

GIAM is typeset using PDFLaTeX. Figures were produced with XFiG. Photographs were modified using GIMP. The source code for GIAM is hosted at GitHub.

GIAM is available in hardcopy as a printed-on-demand paperback from Amazon. Please rest assured that GIAM will remain available for free download from this site.

The LaTeX source code for group activites and the slides for the video lectures are now in the repository.