Exploratory Examples for Real Analysis
Contains supplementary exercises and projects designed to facilitate students' understanding of the fundamental concepts in real analysis, a subject notoriously hard for beginners. The exercises can be used in a number of ways: to motivate a lecture; to serve as a basis for in-class activities; in lab sessions where students work in small groups and submit reports of their investigations. For the last of these, programs in Maple are supplied with further ancillary material available via from http://www.saintmarys.edu/~jsnow/maplets.html.
- This text supplement contains 12 exploratory exercises designed to facilitate students' understanding of elemental concepts encountered in a real analysis course
- The exercises can be used in a variety of ways: to motivate a lecture, to serve as a basis for in-class activities, or for lab sessions
- Support material available from http://www.saintmarys.edu/~jsnow/maplets.html
Product details
December 2004Paperback
9780883857342
158 pages
266 × 192 × 10 mm
0.332kg
60 b/w illus. 37 tables 119 exercises
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Table of Contents
- 1. Boundedness of sets
- 2. Introducing the 'epsilon definition' of least upper bound
- 3. Introduction to the formal definition of convergence
- 4. Experience with the definiton of the limit of a sequence
- 5. Experience with the negation of the definition of convergence
- 6. Algebraic combinations of sequences
- 7. Conditions related to convergence
- 8. Understanding the limit superior and the limit inferior
- 9. Continuity and sequences
- 10. Another definition of continuity
- 11. Experience with the ε − δ definitions of continuity and limit
- 12. Uniform and convergence of a sequence of functions
- Appendix. Visual guides
- About the authors.