Real Analysis / Edition 1

by N. L. Carothers

Overview

This course in real analysis is directed at advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in mathematics and related fields. Presupposing only a modest background in real analysis or advanced calculus, the book offers something of value to specialists and nonspecialists alike. The text covers three major topics: metric and normed linear spaces, function spaces, and Lebesgue measure and integration on the line. In an informal, down-to-earth style, the author gives motivation and overview of new ideas, while still supplying full details and complete proofs. He provides a great many exercises and suggestions for further study.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521497565
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/15/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	1,154,952
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.87(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Part I. Metric Spaces: 1. Calculus review; 2. Countable and uncountable sets; 3. Metrics and norms; 4. Open sets and closed sets; 5. Continuity; 6. Connected sets; 7. Completeness; 8. Compactness; 9. Category; Part II. Function Spaces: 10. Sequences of functions; 11. The space of continuous functions; 12. The Stone-Weierstrass theorem; 13. Functions of bounded variation; 14. The Riemann-Stieltjes integral; 15. Fourier series; Part III. Lebesgue Measure and Integration: 16. Lebesgue measure; 17. Measurable functions; 18. The Lebesgue integral; 19. Additional topics; 20. Differentiation; References; Index.

Editorial Reviews

'… extremely well written: very entertaining and motivating.' Adhemar Bultheel, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society

'The author writes lucidly in a friendly, readable style and he is strong at motivating, anticipating and reviewing the various themes that permeate the text … The overwhelming impression is that Real analysis was a labour of love for the author, written with a genuine reverence for both its beautiful subject matter and its creators, refiners and teachers down the ages. As such - and high praise indeed - it will sit very happily alongside classics such as Apostol's Mathematical analysis, Royden's Real analysis, Rudin's Real and complex analysis and Hewitt and Stromberg's Real and abstract analysis.' The Mathematical Gazette

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