Understanding Analysis:
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Main Author: Abbott, Stephen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2001
Series:Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Introduction to the Problems in Analysis outlines an elementary, one semester course which exposes students to both the process of rigor, and the rewards inherent in taking an axiomatic approach to the study of functions of a real variable. The aim of a course in real analysis should be to challenge and improve mathematical intuition rather than to verify it. The philosophy of this book is to focus attention on questions which give analysis its inherent fascination. Does the Cantor set contain any irrational numbers? Can the set of points where a function is discontinuous be arbitrary? Can the rational numbers be written as a countable intersection of open sets? Is an infinitely differentiable function necessarily the limit of its Taylor series? Giving these topics center stage, the motivation for a rigorous approach is justified by the fact that they are inaccessible without it
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XII, 260 p)
ISBN:9780387215068
9781441928665
ISSN:0172-6056
DOI:10.1007/978-0-387-21506-8

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