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These notes were first used in an introductory course team taught aby the authors at Appalachian State University in 1998. The audience included advanced undergraduate students and beginning...
This rigorous, detailed introduction to real analysis presents the fundamentals clearly and includes definitions, theorems and proofs. Mirroring the structure of standard calculus courses makes it...
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This new edition has been made more user-friendly through organization into more concise chapters. It addresses the mathematical needs of sophomores and juniors in physics, engineering and other...
This authoritative chronicle of the 1950s gestation and modern reanimation of the Soyuz launcher details innumerable aspects of the history, including the measures taken by the Soviets to disguise...
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Based on courses given at Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary) over the past 30 years, this introductory textbook develops the central concepts of the analysis of functions of one variable -...
This book develops the theory of multivariable analysis, building on the single variable foundations established in the companion volume, Real Analysis: Foundations and Functions of One Variable....
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