Fifteen years of classroom experience with the first edition of Understanding Analysis have solidified and refined the central narrative of the second edition. Roughly 150 new exercises join a selection of the best exercises fromthe first edition, and three more project-style sections have been added. Investigations of Eulerâs computation of Îļ(2), the Weierstrass Approximation Theorem, and the gamma function are now among the bookâs cohort of seminal results serving as motivation and payoff for the beginning student to master the methods of analysis.
Stephen D. Abbott is Professor of Mathematics at Middlebury College. He is a two-time winner of Middleburyâs Perkins Award for Excellence in Teaching (1998, 2010). His published work includes articles in the areas of operator theory and functional analysis, the algorithmic foundations of robotics, and the intersection of science, mathematics and the humanities.