Real Analysis by Jay Cummings
This textbook is designed for students. Rather than the typical definition-theorem-proof-repeat style, this text includes much more commentary, motivation and explanation. The proofs are not terse, and aim for understanding over economy. Furthermore, dozens of proofs are preceded by scratch work or a proof sketch to give students a big-picture view and an explanation of how they would come up with it on their own. Examples often drive the narrative and challenge the intuition of the reader. The text also aims to make the ideas visible, and contains over 100 illustrations. The writing is relaxed and includes periodic historical notes, poor attempts at humor, and occasional diversions into other interesting areas of mathematics.The text covers the real numbers, cardinality, sequences, series, the topology of the reals, continuity, differentiation, integration, and sequences and series of functions. Each chapter ends with exercises, and nearly all include some open questions. The first appendix contains a construction the reals, and the second is a collection of additional peculiar and pathological examples from analysis.The author believes most textbooks are extremely overpriced and endeavors to help change this.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781724510129 |
| ISBN 10 | 1724510126 |
| Title | Real Analysis |
| Author | Jay Cummings |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Year published | 2018-07-30 |
| Number of pages | 376 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |