Real Analysis via Sequences and Series

✍ Scribed by Charles H.C. Little, Kee L. Teo, Bruce van Brunt

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 483
• Series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text gives a rigorous treatment of the foundations of calculus. In contrast to more traditional approaches, infinite sequences and series are placed at the forefront. The approach taken has not only the merit of simplicity, but students are well placed to understand and appreciate more sophisticated concepts in advanced mathematics. The authors mitigate potential difficulties in mastering the material by motivating definitions, results and proofs. Simple examples are provided to illustrate new material and exercises are included at the end of most sections. Noteworthy topics include: an extensive discussion of convergence tests for infinite series, Wallis’s formula and Stirling’s formula, proofs of the irrationality of π and e and a treatment of Newton’s method as a special instance of finding fixed points of iterated functions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-32
Sequences....Pages 33-108
Series....Pages 109-189
Limits of Functions....Pages 191-214
Continuity....Pages 215-241
Differentiability....Pages 243-332
The Riemann Integral....Pages 333-398
Taylor Polynomials and Taylor Series....Pages 399-421
The Fixed-Point Problem....Pages 423-436
Sequences of Functions....Pages 437-469
Back Matter....Pages 471-476