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A Companion to Analysis A Second First and First Second Course in Analysis
A Companion to Analysis A Second First and First Second Course in Analysis
T. W. Korner
Graduate Studies in Mathematics Volume 62
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American Mathematical Society Providence, Rhode Island
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[Archimedes] concentrated his ambition exclusively upon those speculations which are untainted by the claims of necessity. These studies, he believed, are incomparably superior to any others, since here the grandeur and beauty of the subject matter vie for our admiration with the cogency and precision of the methods of proof. Certainly in the whole science of geometry it is impossible to find more difficult and intricate problems handled in simpler and purer terms than in his works. Some writers attribute it to his natural genius. Others maintain that phenomenal industry lay behind the apparently effortless ease with which he obtained his results. The fact is that no amount of mental effort of his own would enable a man to hit upon the proof of one of Archimedes' theorems, and yet as soon as it is explained to him, he feels he might have discovered it himself, so smooth and rapid is the path by which he leads us to the required conclusion. Plutarch Life of Marcellus [Scott-Kilvert's translation]
It may be observed of mathematicians that they only meddle with such things as are certain, passing by those that are doubtful and unknown. They profess not to know all things, neither do they affect to speak of all things. What they know to be true, and can make good by invincible argument, that they publish and insert among their theorems. Of other things they are silent and pass no judgment at all, choosing rather to acknowledge their ignorance, than affirm anything rashly. Barrow Mathematical Lectures
For [A. N.] Kolmogorov mathematics always remained in part a sport. But when ... I compared him with a mountain climber who made first ascents, contrasting him with I. M. Geffand whose work I compared with the building of highways, both men were offended. ' ... Why, you don't think I am capable of creating general theories?' said Andrei Nikolaevich. 'Why, you think I can't solve difficult problems?' added I. M. V. I. Arnol'd in Kolmogorov in Perspective
A Companion to Analysis
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Contents
Introduction Chapter 1. The Real Line §1.1.
Why do we bother?
§1.2.
Limits
§1.3.
Continuity
§1.4.
The fundamental axiom
§1.5.
The axiom of Archimedes
§1.6.
Lion hunting
§1.7.
The mean value inequality
§1.8.
Full circle
§1.9.
Are the real numbers unique?
Chapter 2. §2.1.
A First Philosophical Interlude W
Is the intermediate value theorem obvious?
Chapter 3.
W
Other Versions of the Fundamental Axiom
§3.1.
The supremum
§3.2.
The Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem
§3.3.
Some general remarks
Contents
vm Chapter 4.
Higher Dimensions
43
§4.1.
Bolzano-Weierstrass in Higher Dimensions
43
§4.2.
Open and closed sets
48
§4.3.
A central theorem of analysis
56
§4.4.
The mean value theorem
59
§4.5.
Uniform continuity
64
§4.6.
The general principle of convergence
66
Chapter 5.
Sums and Suchlike V
73
§5.1.
Comparison tests W
73
§5.2.
Conditional convergence