Analysis I (Q5962143)

The first of two volumes covering the undergraduate course in real analysis. It contains the following sections: Introduction, The natural numbers, Set theory, Integers and rationals, The real numbers, Limits of sequences, Series, Infinite sets, Continuous functions on \(\mathbb R\), Differentiation of functions, The Riemann integral, and two appendices -- The basics of mathematical logics and The decimal system. Contrary to most similar books, where at least an intuitive knowledge of integers and real numbers is assumed, as well as the elements of the set theory, the first half of this book is mostly devoted to these and related basic principles. All the concepts are built in the most rigorous way, for example the whole second chapter is devoted to natural numbers. The Peano axioms are introduced and studied in detail, accompanied with rigorous proof of propositions like \(6 \neq 2\). In a similar way the fundamentals of the set theory are built in the next chapter. The real numbers are constructed by mans of Cauchy sequences of rational numbers. The set theory on more advanced level is discussed once more in the chapter Infinite sets, containing sections on countability, summation, uncountable sets, the axiom of choice and ordered sets. The rigorous work in the fundamental enables the author to keep high standard of accuracy in the following parts, devoted to differential and integral calculus of one variable functions. The integration is reduced to the Riemann and Riemann-Stieltjes integral. The text is accompanied by motivations and explanations together with end of chapter exercises, mostly not routine ones. All this enables the reader to obtain a very deep insight into mathematical analysis and related theories. The book focusses more on the understanding of principles than to routine calculation - for example the methods of finding antiderivatives (e.g., various types of substitutions) are omitted completely. From this point of view it is more suitable to classical university studies than technical ones.