Analysis has acquired something of a forbidding reputation but this book is designed to avoid this. It adopts a practical, example-led approach that shows both the usefulness and limitations of the results. It makes analysis accessible without losing its sophistication and without becoming abstract so it is ideal as an advanced companion to books on analysis for the undergraduate.

Adopts a clear and practical approach, using an abundance of interesting and diverse examples to illustrate both the usefulness and the limitations of the results A selection of exercises, with varying degrees of difficulty, is provided at the end of each chapter to test understanding Hints and solutions to exercises are provided in an appendix

Autorentext
Peter Walker ist Physiotherapeut und arbeitet seit über 15 Jahren mit Eltern, Babys und Kindern.

Inhalt

1. Sequences.- 1.1 Examples, Formulae and Recursion.- 1.2 Monotone and Bounded Sequences.- 1.3 Convergence.- 1.4 Subsequences.- 1.5 Cauchy Sequences.- Exercises.- 2. Functions and Continuity.- 2.1 Examples.- 2.2 Monotone and Bounded Functions.- 2.3 Limits and Continuity.- 2.4 Bounds and Intermediate Values.- 2.5 Inverse Functions.- 2.6 Recursive Limits and Iteration.- 2.7 One-Sided and Infinite Limits. Regulated Functions.- 2.8 Countability.- Exercises.- 3. Differentiation.- 3.1 Differentiable Functions.- 3.2 The Significance of the Derivative.- 3.3 Rules for Differentiation.- 3.4 Mean Value Theorems and Estimation.- 3.5 More on Iteration.- 3.6 Optimisation.- Exercises.- 4. Constructive Integration.- 4.1 Step Functions.- 4.2 The Integral of a Regulated function.- 4.3 Integration and Differentiation.- 4.4 Applications.- 4.5 Further Mean Value Theorems.- Exercises.- 5. Improper Integrals.- 5.1 Improper Integrals on an Interval.- 5.2 Improper Integrals at Infinity.- 5.3 The Gamma function.- Exercises.- 6. Series.- 6.1 Convergence.- 6.2 Series with Positive Terms.- 6.3 Series with Arbitrary Terms.- 6.4 Power Series.- 6.5 Exponential and Trigonometric Functions.- 6.6 Sequences and Series of Functions.- 6.7 Infinite Products.- Exercises.- 7. Applications.- 7.1 Fourier Series.- 7.2 Fourier Integrals.- 7.3 Distributions.- 7.4 Asymptotics.- 7.5 Exercises.- A. Fubini's Theorem.- B. Hints and Solutions for Exercises.