Real Analysis And Foundations - 91 edition

Krantz, Steven G. : Washington University

The rigorous approach suits my taste; the style is lively. Introducing topology in R instead of RN will suit our students better...I would like to adopt Krantz's book as soon as possible.

--Harold Parks, Oregon State

Krantz does a good job in balancing content and pedagogy; exercises are numerous and well chosen...Any mathematically competent student could profit from this book!

--Ken Johnson, University of Geogia

The book's considerable strength is its overall intention, which it carries out successfully, with a clear and readable style. Focusing on concrete examples...the book introduces a more abstract treatment of analysis.

--Peter haskell, VPI

Steven Krantz writes in a lively style and is clearly eager to explain difficult concepts to the students. He gives lots of examples to help explain the theorems and to illustrate their applications. I like his side remarks after each series proof, pointing out the essential steps and describing informally what really went on.

--Peter Duren, University of Michigan

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I. LOGIC AND SET THEORY.

Introduction.
"And" and "Or".
"Not" and "If-Then".
Contrapositive, Converse, and "If".
Quantifiers.
Set Theory and Venn Diagrams.
Relations and Functions.
Countable and Uncountable Sets.

II. NUMBER SYSTEMS.

The Natural Numbers.
Equivalence Relations and Equivalence Classes.
The Integers.
The Rational Numbers.
The Real Numbers.
The Complex Numbers.

III. SEQUENCES.

Convergence of Sequences.
Subsequences.
Lim sup and Lim inf.
Some Special Sequences.

IV. SERIES OF NUMBERS.

Convergence of Series.
Elementary Convergence Tests.
Advanced Convergence Tests.
Some Special Series.
Operations on Series.

V. BASIC TOPOLOGY.

Open and Closed Sets.
Further Properties of Open and Closed Sets.
Compact Sets.
The Cantor Set.
Connected and Disconnected Sets.
Perfect Sets.

VI. LIMITS AND CONTINUITY OF FUNCTIONS.

Basic Properties of the Limit of a Function.
Continuous Functions.
Topological Properties and Continuity.
Classifying Discontinuities and Monotonicity.

VII. DIFFERENTIATION OF FUNCTIONS.

The Concept of Derivative.
The Mean Value Theorem and Applications.
More on the Theory of Differentiation.

VIII. THE INTEGRAL.

Partitions and the Concept of Integral.
Properties of the Riemann Integral.
Another Look at the Integral.
Advanced Results on Integration Theory.

IX. SEQUENCES AND SERIES OF FUNCTIONS.

Partial Sums and Pointwise Convergence.
More on Uniform Convergence.
Series of Functions.
The Weirstrass Approximation Theorem.

X. SPECIAL FUNCTIONS.

Power Series.
More on Power Series.
Convergence Issues.
The Exponential and Trigonometric Functions.
Logarithms and Powers of Real Numbers.
The Gamma Function and Stirling's Formula.
An Introduction to Fourier Series.

XI. FUNCTIONS OF SEVERAL VARIABLES.

Review of Linear Algebra.
A New Look at the Basic Concepts of Analysis.
Properties of the Derivative.
The Inverse and Implicit Function Theorems.

XII. ADVANCED TOPICS.

Metric Spaces.
Topology in a Metric Space.
The Baire Category Theorem.
The Ascoli-Arzela Theorem.