Real Analysis

Offers a fresh approach to a core subject

Provides a gentle and clear introduction without sacrificing rigour or accuracy

Includes worked examples and exercises designed to reinforce the underlying concepts

Offers a fresh approach to a core subject Provides a gentle and clear introduction without sacrificing rigour or accuracy Includes worked examples and exercises designed to reinforce the underlying concepts Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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1. Introductory Ideas.- 1.1 Foreword for the Student: Is Analysis Necessary?.- 1.2 The Concept of Number.- 1.3 The Language of Set Theory.- 1.4 Real Numbers.- 1.5 Induction.- 1.6 Inequalities.- 2. Sequences and Series.- 2.1 Sequences.- 2.2 Sums, Products and Quotients.- 2.3 Monotonie Sequences.- 2.4 Cauchy Sequences.- 2.5 Series.- 2.6 The Comparison Test.- 2.7 Series of Positive and Negative Terms.- 3. Functions and Continuity.- 3.1 Functions, Graphs.- 3.2 Sums, Products, Compositions; Polynomial and Rational Functions.- 3.3 Circular Functions.- 3.4 Limits.- 3.5 Continuity.- 3.6 Uniform Continuity.- 3.7 Inverse Functions.- 4. Differentiation.- 4.1 The Derivative.- 4.2 The Mean Value Theorems.- 4.3 Inverse Functions.- 4.4 Higher Derivatives.- 4.5 Taylor's Theorem.- 5. Integration.- 5.1 The Riemann Integral.- 5.2 Classes of Integrable Functions.- 5.3 Properties of Integrals.- 5.4 The Fundamental Theorem.- 5.5 Techniques of Integration.- 5.6 Improper Integrals of the First Kind.- 5.7 Improper Integrals of the Second Kind.- 6. The Logarithmic and Exponential Functions.- 6.1 A Function Defined by an Integral.- 6.2 The Inverse Function.- 6.3 Further Properties of the Exponential and Logarithmic Functions.- Sequences and Series of Functions.- 7.1 Uniform Convergence.- 7.2 Uniform Convergence of Series.- 7.3 Power Series.- 8. The Circular Functions.- 8.1 Definitions and Elementary Properties.- 8.2 Length.- 9. Miscellaneous Examples.- 9.1 Wallis's Formula.- 9.2 Stirling's Formula.- 9.3 A Continuous, Nowhere Differentiable Function.- Solutions to Exercises.- The Greek Alphabet.