
Foundations of Real and Abstract Analysis
Douglas S. Bridges(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 7. March 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIV, 322 pages
978-1-4757-7161-9 (ISBN)
Description
The core of this book, Chapters three through five, presents a course on metric, normed, and Hilbert spaces at the senior/graduate level. The motivation for each of these chapters is the generalisation of a particular attribute of the n Euclidean space R: in Chapter 3, that attribute is distance; in Chapter 4, length; and in Chapter 5, inner product. In addition to the standard topics that, arguably, should form part of the armoury of any graduate student in mathematics, physics, mathematical economics, theoretical statistics,. . . , this part of the book contains many results and exercises that are seldom found in texts on analysis at this level. Examples of the latter are Wong's Theorem (3.3.12) showing that the Lebesgue covering property is equivalent to the uniform continuity property, and Motzkin's result (5. 2. 2) that a nonempty closed subset of Euclidean space has the unique closest point property if and only if it is convex. The sad reality today is that, perceiving them as one of the harder parts of their mathematical studies, students contrive to avoid analysis courses at almost any cost, in particular that of their own educational and technical deprivation. Many universities have at times capitulated to the negative demand of students for analysis courses and have seriously watered down their expectations of students in that area. As a result, mathematics majors are graduating, sometimes with high honours, with little exposure to anything but a rudimentary course or two on real and complex analysis, often without even an introduction to the Lebesgue integral.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Graduate
Illustrations
XIV, 322 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4757-7161-9 (9781475771619)
DOI
10.1007/b97625
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Prof. Douglas S. Bridges is a professor of pure mathematics at the University of Canterbury. His research interests include the constructive foundations of analysis and topology; mathematical economics; computability and abstract complexity theory; and quantum logic. He has published many related articles and papers, among his 8 authored books are "Computability: A Mathematical Sketchbook", "Foundations of Real and Abstract Analysis", and "Techniques of Constructive Analysis". He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Dr. Lumini¿a Simona Vî¿¿ is an Adjunct Fellow of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, and a Senior Business Analyst with the New Zealand Customs Service. Her research interests include constructive foundations of analysis and topology, and recursive function theory, computability and complexity. She has published many related articles and papers, and coauthored "Techniques of Constructive Analysis".
Content
Real Analysis.- Analysis on the Real Line.- Differentiation and the Lebesgue Integral.- Abstract Analysis.- Analysis in Metric Spaces.- Analysis in Normed Linear Spaces.- Hilbert Spaces.- An Introduction to Functional Analysis.