Continuous functions of vector variables
This is a textbook on calculus of several variables. It covers algebraic and metric structure of the Euclidean space, convergence, basic properties of continuous functions and topology in normed spaces. The reader is supposed to be familiar with single-valued calculus and basic notions of linear algebra. The order of topics is the same as in the single-valued calculus. It helps the student to see analogies to and generalizations of familiar ideas. The author does not limit himself to the Euclidean space, and shows how these ideas work in normed vector spaces. The last section in each chapter is devoted to infinite-dimensional spaces. Topological notions are introduced step by step and motivated by development of calculus. In my opinion, this topological approach is one of the advantages of the book under review. It is written very clearly and contains numerous examples and instructive pictures. Each section is endowed with a set of exercises, and the book is concluded with solutions to these exercises. This is a nice and userfriendly textbook which can be recommended for a one-semester course in multivariable calculus.
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