Analysis by its history. Translated from the English original by Andreas Lochmann. (Q990374)

This book finally appears in the mother-tongue of the authors after an odyssey of some 20 years. It developed from a French manuscript while the authors were teaching at Geneva, then was translated into English, then into Japanese. A new edition in French followed, then a Russian translation, and finally in 2010 this German translation appeared. The ``in historischer Entwicklung'' in the title refers in part to the order in which topics are treated. While the more traditional analysis texts begin with sets and mappings, continue with limits and continuity, then treat derivatives and integrals, the historical development was more in the reverse order. (Archimedes was already doing integration.) The text is divided into four extensive chapters of near 100 pages each: I. Einführung in die Analysis des Unendlichen; II. Differential- und Integralrechnung; III. Grundlagen der klassischen Analysis; IV. Differentialrechnumg in mehreren Variablen. Each chapter consists of several sections, at the end of each of which is a good set of exercises. There are indeed more references to the historical development of the subject, and historical examples, than one finds in the traditional analysis text. The text should serve students and faculty at German-speaking universities very well, as it already has at those of the several other languages of its history. See also the review of the first edition in English [(1995; Zbl 0842.26002)].