CounterExamples: From Elementary Calculus to the Beginnings of Analysis

دسته بندی: تحلیل و بررسی
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نویسندگان: Bourchtein. Andrei,  Bourchtein. Ludmila  
سری: Textbooks in mathematics (Boca Raton Fla.) 
ISBN (شابک) : 9781482246674, 1482246678 
ناشر: CRC Press 
سال نشر: 2014 
تعداد صفحات: 358 
زبان: English 
فرمت فایل : PDF (درصورت درخواست کاربر به PDF، EPUB یا AZW3 تبدیل می شود) 
حجم فایل: 5 مگابایت 

قیمت کتاب (تومان) : 47,000

"This book provides a one-semester undergraduate introduction to counterexamples in calculus and analysis. It helps engineering, natural sciences, and mathematics students tackle commonly made erroneous conjectures. The book encourages students to think critically and analytically, and helps to reveal common errors in many examples.In this book, the authors present an overview of important concepts and results in calculus and real analysis by considering false statements, which may appear to be true at first glance. The book covers topics concerning the functions of real variables, starting with elementary properties, moving to limits and continuity, and then to differentiation and integration. The first part of the book describes single-variable functions, while the second part covers the functions of two variables.The many examples presented throughout the book typically start at a very basic level and become more complex during the development of exposition. At the end of each chapter, supplementary exercises of different levels of complexity are provided, the most difficult of them with a hint to the solution.This book is intended for students who are interested in developing a deeper understanding of the topics of calculus. The gathered counterexamples may also be used by calculus instructors in their classes. "--

"In this manuscript we present counterexamples to different false statements, which frequently arise in the calculus and fundamentals of real analysis, and which may appear to be true at first glance. A counterexample is understood here in a broad sense as any example that is counter to some statement. The topics covered concern functions of real variables. The first part (chapters 1-6) is related to single-variable functions, starting with elementary properties of functions (partially studied even in college), passing through limits and continuity to differentiation and integration, and ending with numerical sequences and series. The second part (chapters 7-9) deals with function of two variables, involving limits and continuity, differentiation and integration. One of the goals of this book is to provide an outlook of important concepts and theorems in calculus and analysis by using counterexamples.We restricted our exposition to the main definitions and theorems of calculus in order to explore different versions (wrong and correct) of the fundamental concepts and to see what happens a few steps outside of the traditional formulations. Hence, many interesting (but more specific and applied) problems not related directly to the basic notions and results are left out of the scope of this manuscript. The selection and exposition of the material are directed, in the first place, to those calculus students who are interested in a deeper understanding and broader knowledge of the topics of calculus. We think the presented material may also be used by instructors that wish to go through the examples (or their variations) in class or assign them as homework or extra-curricular projects. In order to make the majority of the examples and solutions accessible to"-- Read more...
Abstract: "This book provides a one-semester undergraduate introduction to counterexamples in calculus and analysis. It helps engineering, natural sciences, and mathematics students tackle commonly made erroneous conjectures. The book encourages students to think critically and analytically, and helps to reveal common errors in many examples.In this book, the authors present an overview of important concepts and results in calculus and real analysis by considering false statements, which may appear to be true at first glance. The book covers topics concerning the functions of real variables, starting with elementary properties, moving to limits and continuity, and then to differentiation and integration. The first part of the book describes single-variable functions, while the second part covers the functions of two variables.The many examples presented throughout the book typically start at a very basic level and become more complex during the development of exposition. At the end of each chapter, supplementary exercises of different levels of complexity are provided, the most difficult of them with a hint to the solution.This book is intended for students who are interested in developing a deeper understanding of the topics of calculus. The gathered counterexamples may also be used by calculus instructors in their classes. "--

"In this manuscript we present counterexamples to different false statements, which frequently arise in the calculus and fundamentals of real analysis, and which may appear to be true at first glance. A counterexample is understood here in a broad sense as any example that is counter to some statement. The topics covered concern functions of real variables. The first part (chapters 1-6) is related to single-variable functions, starting with elementary properties of functions (partially studied even in college), passing through limits and continuity to differentiation and integration, and ending with numerical sequences and series. The second part (chapters 7-9) deals with function of two variables, involving limits and continuity, differentiation and integration. One of the goals of this book is to provide an outlook of important concepts and theorems in calculus and analysis by using counterexamples.We restricted our exposition to the main definitions and theorems of calculus in order to explore different versions (wrong and correct) of the fundamental concepts and to see what happens a few steps outside of the traditional formulations. Hence, many interesting (but more specific and applied) problems not related directly to the basic notions and results are left out of the scope of this manuscript. The selection and exposition of the material are directed, in the first place, to those calculus students who are interested in a deeper understanding and broader knowledge of the topics of calculus. We think the presented material may also be used by instructors that wish to go through the examples (or their variations) in class or assign them as homework or extra-curricular projects. In order to make the majority of the examples and solutions accessible to"

Content: Introduction Comments On the structure of this book On mathematical language and notation Background (elements of theory) Sets Functions  FUNCTIONS OF ONE REAL VARIABLE Elementary properties of functions Elements of theory Function definition Boundedness Periodicity Even/odd functions Monotonicity Extrema Exercises  Limits Elements of theory Concepts Elementary properties (arithmetic and comparative) Exercises  Continuity Elements of theory Local properties Global properties: general results Global properties: the famous theorems  Mapping sets Weierstrass theorems Intermediate Value theorem Uniform continuity Exercises  Differentiation Elements of theory Concepts Local properties Global properties Applications Tangent line Monotonicity and local extrema Convexity and inflection Asymptotes L'Hospital's rule Exercises  Integrals Elements of theory Indefinite integral Definite (Riemann) integral Improper integrals Applications Exercises  Sequences and series Elements of theory Numerical sequences Numerical series: convergence and elementary properties Numerical series: convergence tests Power series Exercises  FUNCTIONS OF TWO REAL VARIABLES Limits and continuity Elements of theory One-dimensional links Concepts and local properties Global properties Multidimensional essentials Exercises  Differentiability Elements of Theory One-dimensional links Concepts and local properties Global properties and applications Multidimensional essentials Exercises  Integrability Elements of theory One-dimensional links Multidimensional essentials Exercises Bibliography Symbol Description Index