title: Creative Mathematics (Mathematical Association of America Textbooks)
author:  H. S. Wall 
description: Developed over a period of many years of working with students at the University of Texas, Austin, this book cultivates mathematical creativity and independence. The book is self contained, and assumes little formal mathematical background on the part of the reader.
zlib_text: ![](Images/image00315.jpeg)
  
  Graduate Texts in Mathematics
  
  263
  
  Graduate Texts in Mathematics
  
   **Series Editors:**
  
  Sheldon Axler
  
  _San Francisco State University_
  
  Kenneth Ribet
  
  _University of California, Berkeley_
  
   **Advisory Board:**
  
  Colin Adams, _Williams College_
  
  Alejandro Adem, _University of British Columbia_
  
  Ruth Charney, _Brandeis University_
  
  Irene M. Gamba, _The University of Texas at Austin_
  
  Roger E. Howe, _Yale University_
  
  David Jerison, _Massachusetts Institute of Technology_
  
  Jeffrey C. Lagarias, _University of Michigan_
  
  Jill Pipher, _Brown University_
  
  Fadil Santosa, _University of Minnesota_
  
  Amie Wilkinson, _University of Chicago_
  
   **Graduate Texts in Mathematics** bridge the gap between passive study and
  creative understanding, offering graduate-level introductions to advanced
  topics in mathematics. The volumes are carefully written as teaching aids and
  highlight characteristic features of the theory. Although these books are
  frequently used as textbooks i