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ABCD springer.com JMM 2012 Titles on Display springer.com 2 ▶$69.95 algebraic topology, both of which provide applications of the main results. More on www.springer.com/978-3-642-19579-2 S. Abbott, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, USA Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days 2011. VIII, 122 p. 15 illus., 9 in color. (École d'Été de Understanding Analysis Probabilités de Saint-Flour, Vol. 2019) Softcover This book outlines an elementary, one-semester 978-3-642-19579-2 course which exposes students to both the process of ▶$49.95 rigor, and the rewards inherent in taking an axiomatic approach to the study of functions of a real variable. The aim of a course in real analysis should be to M. Abate, Università di Pisa, Italia; F. Tovena, Università Tor challenge and improve mathematical intuition rather Vergata, Roma, Italia than to verify it. The philosophy of this book is to focus attention on questions which give analysis its Curves and Surfaces inherent fascination. 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Adler, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, and functions, tangent vectors (presented both that encourage pursuing extensions of the material, Israel; J.E. Taylor, Stanford University, Stanford, USA as vectors tangent to curves in the surface and as each with an “Answers or Hints” section -covers an derivations on germs of differentiable functions; we Topological Complexity of array of advanced topics which allow for flexibility in shall consistently use both approaches in the whole developing the subject beyond the basics -Provides a book) and orientation. 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