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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This well-written book prepares readers to take a real analysis course by carefully defining and proving all concepts one needs for this type of course. . . . Throughout the book, the style is incredibly reader friendly, and the author's enthusiasm for the subject is very clear." * Choice *
"I can imagine this book proving useful to a motivated student who is finding the transition into analysis challenging through traditional textbooks."
---Dominic Yeo, Mathematical GazetteTable of ContentsPreliminaries 1 1 Introduction 3 2 Basic Math and Logic* 6 3 Set Theory* 14 Real Numbers 25 4 Least Upper Bounds* 27 5 The Real Field* 35 6 Complex Numbers and Euclidean Spaces 46 Topology 59 7 Bijections 61 8 Countability 68 9 Topological Definitions* 79 10 Closed and Open Sets* 90 11 Compact Sets* 98 12 The Heine-Borel Theorem* 108 13 Perfect and Connected Sets 117 Sequences 127 14 Convergence* 129 15 Limits and Subsequences* 138 16 Cauchy and Monotonic Sequences* 148 17 Subsequential Limits 157 18 Special Sequences 166 19 Series* 174 20 Conclusion 183 Acknowledgments 187 Bibliography 189 Index 191
