Mathematical Analysis (eBook)

An Introduction

Andrew Browder (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2012
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-1-4612-0715-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This is a textbook suitable for a year-long course in analysis at the ad- vanced undergraduate or possibly beginning-graduate level. It is intended for students with a strong background in calculus and linear algebra, and a strong motivation to learn mathematics for its own sake. At this stage of their education, such students are generally given a course in abstract algebra, and a course in analysis, which give the fundamentals of these two areas, as mathematicians today conceive them. Mathematics is now a subject splintered into many specialties and sub- specialties, but most of it can be placed roughly into three categories: al- gebra, geometry, and analysis. In fact, almost all mathematics done today is a mixture of algebra, geometry and analysis, and some of the most in- teresting results are obtained by the application of analysis to algebra, say, or geometry to analysis, in a fresh and surprising way. What then do these categories signify? Algebra is the mathematics that arises from the ancient experiences of addition and multiplication of whole numbers; it deals with the finite and discrete. Geometry is the mathematics that grows out of spatial experience; it is concerned with shape and form, and with measur- ing, where algebra deals with counting.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.12.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Analysis
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geometrie / Topologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4612-0715-0 / 1461207150
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4612-0715-3 / 9781461207153