
A First Course in Analysis
George Pedrick(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 5. September 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
XXI, 279 pages
978-1-4612-6435-4 (ISBN)
Description
The first course in Analysis, which follows calculus, along with other courses, such as differential equations and elementary linear algebra, in the curricu lum, presents special pedagogical challenges. There is a change of stress from computational manipulation to "proof. " Indeed, the course can become more a course in Logic than one in Analysis. Many students, caught short by a weak command of the means of mathematical discourse and unsure of what is expected of them, what "the game" is, suffer bouts of a kind of mental paralysis. This text attempts to address these problems in several ways: First, we have attempted to define "the game" as that of "inquiry," by using a form of exposition that begins with a question and proceeds to analyze, ultimately to answer it, bringing in definitions, arguments, conjectures, exam ples, etc. , as they arise naturally in the course of a narrative discussion of the question. (The true, historical narrative is too convoluted to serve for first explanations, so no attempt at historical accuracy has been made; our narra tives are completely contrived. ) Second, we have kept the logic informal, especially in the course of preliminary speculative discussions, where common sense and plausibility tempered by mild skepticism-serve to energize the inquiry.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Lower undergraduate
Illustrations
XXI, 279 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
464 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4612-6435-4 (9781461264354)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4419-8554-5
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Content
Background Number Systems.- §1. Counting: The Natural Numbers.- §2. Measurement: The Rational Numbers.- The Axioms of Ordered Fields.- §3. Decimal Representation. Irrationals.- I ANALYSIS.- 1 Approximation: The Real Numbers.- 2 The Extreme-Value Problem.- 3 Continuous Functions.- II FOUNDATIONS OF CALCULUS.- 4 Differentiation.- 5 Integration.- 6 Infinite Series.