内容简介
Foroverthreedecades,thisbest-sellingclassichasbeenusedbythousandsofstudentsintheUnitedStatesandabroadasamust-havetextbookforatransitionalcoursefromcalculustoanalysis.Ithasproventobeveryusefulformathematicsmajorswhohavenopreviousexperiencewithrigorousproofs.Itsfriendlystyleunlocksthemysteryofwritingproofs,whilecarefullyexaminingthetheoreticalbasisforcalculus.Proofsaregiveninfull,andthelargenumberofwell-chosenexamplesandexercisesrangefromroutinetochallenging.Thesecondeditionpreservesthebooksclearandconcisestyle,illuminatingdiscussions,andsimple,well-motivatedproofs.Newtopicsincludematerialontheirrationalityofpi,theBairecategorytheorem,Newton'smethodandthesecantmethod,andcontinuousnowhere-differentiablefunctions.Reviewfromthefirstedition:"Thisbookisintendedforthestudentwhohasagood,butnaïve,understandingofelementarycalculusandnowwishestogainathoroughunderstandingofafewbasicconceptsinanalysis....Theauthorhastriedtowriteinaninformalbutprecisestyle,stressingmotivationandmethodsofproof,and...hassucceededadmirably."MATHEMATICALREVIEWS