Overview: Offers a fresh approach to a core subject.Provides a gentle and clear introduction without sacrificing rigour or accuracy.Includes worked examples and exercises designed to reinforce the underlying coFrom the point of view of strict logic, a rigorous course on real analysis should precede a course on calculus. Strict logic, is, however, overruled by both history and practicality. Historically, calculus, with its origins in the 17th century, came first, and made rapid progress on the basis of informal intuition. Not until well through the 19th century was it possible to claim that the
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