• Title: How We Got from There to Here: A Story of Real Analysis
• Author(s) Robert Rogers and Eugene Boman
• Publisher: Lulu.com; First edition (June 14, 2014); eBook (Creative Commons Licensed)
• License(s): CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
• Paperback: 220 pages
• eBook: HTML and PDF
• Language: English
• ISBN-10/ASIN: 1312348690
• ISBN-13: 978-1312348691
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Book Description

This book is an introductory real analysis textbook, presented through the lens of history. That is, it proposes that an effective way to motivate the highly non-intuitve definitions and theorems encountered in an introductory, college level Real Analysis course is via one of the stories (there are many) of the historical development of the subject, from its intuitive beginnings to modern rigor. The definitions and techniques are motivated by the actual difficulties encountered by the intuitive approach and are presented in their historical context.

• Eugene Boman, Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University.
• Robert Rogers, Department of Mathematics, State University of New York.

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