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A First Course in Analysis

A First Course in Analysis

Pedrick, George

Paperback

Series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics

CalculusGeneral Mathematics

ISBN10: 1461264359
ISBN13: 9781461264354
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 5 2012
Pages: 279
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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