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Modern Real and Complex Analysis

Thorough, well-written, and encyclopedic in its coverage, this text offers a lucid presentation of all the topics essential to graduate study in analysis. While maintaining the strictest standards of rigor, Professor Gelbaum's approach is designed to appeal to intuition whenever possible. Modern Real and Complex Analysis provides up-to-date treatment of such subjects as the Daniell integration, differentiation, functional analysis and Banach algebras, conformal mapping and Bergman's kernels, defective functions, Riemann surfaces and uniformization, and the role of convexity in analysis. The text supplies an abundance of exercises and illustrative examples to reinforce learning, and extensive notes and remarks to help clarify important points. ... Read more

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Many changes have been made in this second edition of A First Course in Real Analysis. The most noticeable is the addition of many problems and the inclusion of answers to most of the odd-numbered exercises. The book's readability has also been improved by the further clarification of many of the proofs, additional explanatory remarks, and clearer notation. ... Read more

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You'll Grow To Appreciate It
My appreciation for this book grew with time. At first you may not like it very much because it can be very rigorous at times. There are great topics in the text that you will not find in others. After using and understanding this book, your level of mathematical maturity should be raised.

Pedagogically excellent, with strong coverage
This really is an outstanding book. I am about to enter graduate study in economics, and wanted to expose myself to the substantive and methodological concepts of real analysis, with only a sound calculus course behind me, at the level of Stewart 'Multivariable Calculus'.

This book is a real pleasure; the proofs are given with great care, and some nice motivation, where possible. I really do feel that I have developed my mathematical maturity through the use of this book.

Pedagogics are of the highest importance in undergraduate mathematics. With that in mind, I cannot recommend this book more highly.

This is one place to begin
First off, this is not a text dedicated to Functional Analysis and, I assume, anyone capable of reading the title would know that.If you are encountering, for the first time, the world of abstract mathematics by way of some class in Real Analysis, then this text is a nice and almost comfortable place to start.This text is not overwhelming terse and lacking in examples like, say Lang's text, and, conversely, this text does not baby you and waste your time with verbose explanations and or proof like, say Strichartz's text.Instead, I would say that this text stands above middle of the road beginning analysis texts and, in general, contains ample exercises as well as examples.Through out the entire text, the authors do an excellent job of not loosing sight of the fact that mathematics is about rigor, about intuitive understanding of abstract theoretical concepts.Remember, this text falls into a class of texts, such as Herstein's, whose purpose (not necessarily primary) is to introduce the reader/student to elegant and more abstract concepts and not to assume that you are inherently gifted with the ability to quickly absorb these new abstract ideas and methods.That is, and with respect to students, this text is for persons with either very limited exposure to analysis or for those who are meeting analysis for the first time.Whereas, the existence of such nice and well thought-out examples make this book a must have as a reference.Especially for those engaged in more abstract higher analysis since the examples that have been given provide an excellent reminder that mathematics is built from the ground up, like a growing pyramid, and highlights the necessary role of abstraction.Finally, this text is thick and covers alot of material.Do not let this fact overwhelm you and in turn persuade you to not engage in reading it.Just take your time and suffer through it like all good mathematicians.

Most Complete undergraduate text in Functional Analysis
A must buy for students who want to major in Math or pursue graduate study in Math. The book will prepare a student for higher courses in Functional & Real Analysis ... Read more

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This elementary presentation exposes readers to both the process of rigor and the rewards inherent in taking an axiomatic approach to the study of functions of a real variable. The aim is to challenge and improve mathematical intuition rather than to verify it. The philosophy of this book is to focus attention on questions which give analysis its inherent fascination. Each chapter begins with the discussion of some motivating examples and concludes with a series of questions. ... Read more

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Good.
The product was shipped as soon as possible and I got this package before I even expected it. The book was in good condition as stated. There was a lot of writing and highlighting in the book but it's to be expected because the book is not new. It was at a very reasonable price. So overall I am very happy with this purchase.

I love it
This is a real product for students who want to get "A" grade in Analysis.

Adequate, but missing solutions is frustrating.
It's a good introductory book, but it leaves a prodigious amount of the Theorems as exercises.This makes studying out of the book very difficult in a time crunch.Still, easy to understand the explanations that are given.

A book which is too unfocused for beginners
I attempted to teach out of this book and my students found it difficult since many of its exercises aren't properly prefaced in the sections for which they were intended. The ordering of the ideas is also haphazard and the general presentation assumes far more mathematical knowledge and familiarity with basic concepts than can be gleaned from its pages alone. An extension to the introductory section on set theory and mappings would be helpful to the presentation. Many sections are unnecessarily chatty in the wrong places and unfocused. It is an inexpensive book, but Bartle and Sherbert's masterful introduction is well worth 5 times its price.

Super user-friendly well written analysis book delightful to read!
I currently own Baby Rudin, Kolmogorov and Fomin, Marsden,John Royden, Probability and Analysis and this book
I think if this book provides a solutions manual, it will be the best self-study book. Sure Rudin is elegant and very general in a sense that it covers huge amount of materials through pithy and concise yet rigorous proofs but this is exactly why i don't think it is a good book to start.

When i started with Rudin because of its fame, I was very frustrated because of the density of the book. It is veryheavy reading that you need to explicate in your head to understand. This is all good and well if you already grasp the idea but for first time learners rudin should be used as a reference. ( i am sure lots of people disagree, this is just my view).

This book on the other hand is super friendly and when you read it, it does the explicating of the ideas for you. it is as if you are listening to a professor who does the thinking for you. OF COURSE this is not GOOD for learning how to proof stuff. That, one must learn by himself. However, When one wants to learn the ideas and grasp the general overview and the beauty of analysis, it serves one well.

I recommend this book to anyone who wants to leisurely yet rigorously learn analysis.usually, those two words are oxymorons but this book combines them - leisure and rigor come together. ... Read more

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Intended for an honors calculus course or for an introduction to analysis, this is an ideal text for undergraduate majors since it covers rigorous analysis, computational dexterity, and a breadth of applications. The book contains many remarkable features: * complete avoidance of /epsilon-/delta arguments by using sequences instead * definition of the integral as the area under the graph, while area is defined for every subset of the plane * complete avoidance of complex numbers * heavy emphasis on computational problems * applications from many parts of analysis, e.g. convex conjugates, Cantor set, continued fractions, Bessel functions, the zeta functions, and many more * 344 problems with solutions in the back of the book. ... Read more

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Good for self-study
This book may be good for those who want to learn Analysis but without a good teacher. It contains many solved problems to show you how the reasoning is like. But nothing else impressive.

Excellent for Beginners!
This is one of the best books for undergraduates in Mathematics. It contains lots of examples and problems that are completely solved at the end of the book. It is a must for every undergraduate in Mathematics. ... Read more

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Great find
As a long time real estate investor in both up and down markets, I was pleased to find such an informative book detailing today's real estate market in a concise and practical way. So many people I have talked to really have no clue what the future holds in real estate, because they have no foundation in the fundamentals.After reading this book thoroughly, many of what I considered instincts about real estate, was clearly outlined in a systematic approach which is clearly useful in this fluctuating and uncertain market.The book is well written, easy to read and most important of all, contains valuable methods and trends to look for in order to capitalize on forthcoming real estate opportunities. Highly recommended for real estate investors looking to create wealth the old fashion way.

not bad, but how were the articles chosen?
The chapters were written from 2007-8, and the book just came out in 2009. In the short intervening time, the predictions have largely held up. The book claims that the chapters have been reprinted as is, with no updating of the numbers or predictions. One item which has changed is the steep fall in oil prices. Several chapters use the then current price of around $140 per barrel.

But keep in mind one caveat. We don't know the full range of reports from which the chapters were culled. The reports were originally for internal use by that authors' firm, and for their clients. Perhaps some reports were already so far off that they were never considered for the book?

This can be just like how some fund managers start different funds, each with a different strategy. After some period of time, the losing funds get dissolved and the results of the successful ones promulgated. Survivor bias. There may be an element of this with the book.

Excellent practical guide
The advantage of having financial handbooks written by practitioners is that they tend to be considerably more practical than the books written by academics (as anyone who's ploughed through, say, Hull's books will appreciate).

Lynn and his colleagues at ING Clarion know their products and markets, and know how to write clearly and concisely about them, to produce a very readable and useful guide - with surprising breadth given its brevity.

My only reservation - and it's almost inevitable in any book which is an edited collection of research pieces, etc. - is that some parts are a trifle out of date, e.g., prospects for US hotel investment in 2008 in a book published in 2009.But that's a minor point.

Strongly commended and recommended.

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This book is a one-semester text for an introduction to real analysis. The author's primary aims are to develop ideas already familiar from elementary calculus in a rigorous manner and to help students deeply understand some basic but crucial mathematical ideas, and to see how definitions, proofs, examples, and other forms of mathematical 'apparatus' work together to create a unified theory. A key feature of the book is that it includes substantial treatment of some foundational material, including general theory of functions, sets, cardinality, and basic proof techniques. ... Read more

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This is the second edition of a graduate level real analysis textbook formerly published by Prentice Hall (Pearson) in 1997. This edition contains both volumes.Volumes one and two can also be purchased separately in smaller, more convenient sizes. ... Read more

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Indispensable!
This book clearly belongs to the list of essential analysis books (like e.g. Hewitt+Stromberg's Real and abstract analysis, Torchinsky's Real Variable, Bungart+Asplung's first course in integration or Knapp's Basic/Advanced real analysis).
For example, it contains the proof of a.e. Fejer summability of Lebesgue integrable functions.
Not to be missed!
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Using a progressive but flexible format, this book contains a series of independent chapters that show how the principles and theory of real analysis can be applied in a variety of settings—in subjects ranging from Fourier series and polynomial approximation to discrete dynamical systems and nonlinear optimization. Users will be prepared for more intensive work in each topic through these applications and their accompanying exercises.Chapter topics under the abstract analysis heading include: the real numbers, series, the topology of R^n, functions, normed vector spaces, differentiation and integration, and limits of functions. Applications cover approximation by polynomials, discrete dynamical systems, differential equations, Fourier series and physics, Fourier series and approximation, wavelets, and convexity and optimization.For math enthusiasts with a prior knowledge of both calculus and linear algebra. ... Read more

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A solid intro text
My college uses this text for the undergraduate real analysis sequence and I found it more helpful than the textbooks for most of my other math courses. Its examples are not as illustrative as Ross's and the proofs are not as concise as Rudin's, but I think Davidson and Donsig found a good balance between rigor and intuition. Unlike many of its competitors, this book provides a rigorous development of the theory of calculus without handwaivy omissions.

shocked to find such a low rating on my favorite undergraduate analysis text
I'm now almost a third year in graduate school and searched Amazon for this book, as it was my favorite analysis textbook as an undergraduate, and I thought of buying it for reference to go with the solutions that I wrote (and saved) as an undergraduate.

I was shocked to find such poor reviews of such a well written text. I found the book very readable, the examples helpful, and most of all, the exercises very interesting and fun to solve.

Do not be put off by the previous critiques. This is an excellent book and it is the first book in analysis that enjoyed learning from.

Errors, randomness, inconsistency

Riddled with many many many many errors (not just types or obvious errors, but errors in proofs and reasoning).

The order of the topics is also very poor, as authors often deal with very specific things for a long time (using definitions that really don't make sense unless you compare with general setting) then only get to general setting much later.

Too many errors - that says enough.

If you're just starting analysis, go elsewhere!
I am currently a graduate student, and we are using this book in my first-year graduate course in analysis.To be quite honest, I find this book utterly useless, except for looking up homework problems that are so hard you are forced to look elsewhere just to learn how to solve them!The authors spend way too little time building up the theory and just expect their readers to be able to follow what they're doing with very few examples (or ones too complicated to really illustrate what's going on), and then give problems where even the easier ones can seem near impossible.This book makes more sense as a graduate text, certainly, especially if you've already had analysis; in that case, then you may only need to see the major theorems as a refresher and then you can start right on the challenging problems.

However, if you're an undergrad and this is your first exposure to analysis, go elsewhere, please!My fellow grad students and I have gotten so frustrated over this book and its problems, and we've all had analysis before!If you've never had analysis before, I would suggest Bartle/Sherbert's Intro. to Real Analysis; they spend a good amount of time with examples and what I call "warm-up" homework problems to get you used to the concepts, followed by some doozies (and, yes; selected answers and hints are in the back!).If you're very strong in math, then perhaps Rudin's "Principles of Mathematical Analysis" may be more up your alley (aka Baby Rudin).Best of luck to you!

not for beginners!
I've been using this text for two semesters. I have to say this book is too advanced for starters, especially after chapter 6. My biggest complaint is the author does not provide enough examples to illustrate the theorems. A majority of the sections usually go like: 1. proposition of a theorem 2. proof 3. major theorem. 4. proof 5. corollary 6. proof 7. tons of hard problems left to homework.

I would suggest the author give more examples when showing off those hard theorems. It could be better if the author also provides solutions to (at least) half of the exercises at the end of each section. Remember your readers are not academic conference colleagues, but first-time undergrad students. We learn things from examples! ... Read more

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An in-depth look at real analysis and its applications-now expanded and revised.

This new edition of the widely used analysis book continues to cover real analysis in greater detail and at a more advanced level than most books on the subject. Encompassing several subjects that underlie much of modern analysis, the book focuses on measure and integration theory, point set topology, and the basics of functional analysis. It illustrates the use of the general theories and introduces readers to other branches of analysis such as Fourier analysis, distribution theory, and probability theory.

This edition is bolstered in content as well as in scope-extending its usefulness to students outside of pure analysis as well as those interested in dynamical systems. The numerous exercises, extensive bibliography, and review chapter on sets and metric spaces make Real Analysis: Modern Techniques and Their Applications, Second Edition invaluable for students in graduate-level analysis courses. New features include:
* Revised material on the n-dimensional Lebesgue integral.
* An improved proof of Tychonoff's theorem.
* Expanded material on Fourier analysis.
* A newly written chapter devoted to distributions and differential equations.
* Updated material on Hausdorff dimension and fractal dimension. ... Read more

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The Best! book on the subject, hands down.
The book by Folland is, by far the best book on the subject. All of the proofs are succinct, and the problems are extremely appropriate. Comparing with other books: it has much more material than Rudin's book, regarding Real Variable Theory; it' much more general and substantial than the Royden and WHeeden/Zygmund books; of course, as a modern book, it blows the Kolmogorov/Fomin book out of the water. You won't find another book which presents Real Variable Theory as comprehensively or as general as this book; also, you won't find these techniques in any other book. It functions as an introduction to Measure Theory/Integration, Topology, Functional Analysis, and Fourier Analysis. I will always cherish this book. Many thanks to the author, Dr. Folland.

Outstanding text, poor typesetting quality
This is a great analysis book as others have discussed.

However, the publisher has done a really shoddy job
on the new edition.The print looks like a cheap photocopy
of an original manuscript.Or even a copy of a copy.
It is outrageous that they can charge so much for such
poor quality work.If I were Folland, I'd be really mad.
Also, the new cover is weak- bring back the old
brown cover!

5+ stars for the text, 1 star for the book itself.

I get it now
This is the second time I've re-reviewed this book.

First off, I am not a mathematician. I was trained as an engineer, and have recently started studying more advanced mathematics to apply it to my research. The only undergrad math course I'd taken before using this book was the standard analysis course. I initially used this book for a first graduate course in real analysis. Even with a professor, going through the book was incredibly difficult, and I had to resort to another book (Wheeden and Zygmund) as well as extensive notes provided by the professor. This experience made me loathe the book.

A few months after the course, having gained more exposure in this area, I returned to the book, and was surprised to find that I had finally started to understand why the author had organized it the way he had. Now, 6 months and another grad course in analysis later (operator theory), I think the book is worth its weight in gold.

First off, let's outline the cons. At first sight, the book takes brevity to the brink of lunacy. A (very) respectable first graduate course in analysis is covered in the first 100 pages. Dense doesn't even begin to cover it. Major results are relegated to the exercises, whole topics are compressed into a section (sometimes two or three are crammed into one), and even the proofs are presented with the barest minimum of explanation. The whole book is about 370 pages, and has enough material for about 4-5 courses. The exercises range from doable to extremely difficult. You also have chapters on everything from point set topology to harmonic analysis (abstract and otherwise) to probability to functional analysis. Heck, even fractals and manifolds pop up by the end.

The truth, however, is that all of these cons are actually pros in disguise. I know most engineers secretly think that the word 'elegant' used to describe mathematics textbooks is basically code for 'stupendously bad exposition', but the simple truth is this: analysis is hard. Sometimes brutally so, and the more you beat your brains against it, the better. If you're looking for a quick and easy explanation of the Lebesgue integral, this really isn't your book. Especially if you're not used to thinking as abstractly as is required here (I certainly wasn't).

I freely admit that I wouldn't recommend this as a first textbook to my worst enemies (my worst enemies are other engineers). But for mathematicians, the brevity might actually be useful. And once you know the basic material (the first three chapters), the book becomes an invaluable resource.

Splendid
This is such an excellent textbook on the so called graduate real analysis materials. All major concepts are well motivated. In short a pleasure to read. Read it along with Big Rudin and Stein's Real Analysis; they are all excellent texts. Dr. Folland is a master on the subject and makes the materials very understandable and intuitive.

This book deserves at least 4 in my opinion. This is an advanced undergraduate or graduate level textbook. Lacking examples? Create yourself. This is one of the ways to know how maths objects behave. Definitions are not motivated? Good, motivate yourself. Too terse? It should not be that terse, after one has seen concrete treatment of Lebesgue integration, also having accquired the mathematical maturity from Weirstrass, Arzella Ascolli, Baire Category Theorems, and Fourier Analysis (Pugh's Real Mathematical Analysis, Carother's Real Analysis, Stein's Fourier Analysis are excellent) Being terse can be a good thing: intuitionise and geometrise the materials. Try to think of a way to present them in a manner so that people with (honours) 1st year calculus (Spivak, Apostol) can listen as stories.

Regarding someone who reviewed the book, yes a picture is worth a thousand words. But eventually, seeing others' pictures is not sufficient; we need to learn to be mature enough to draw pictures ourselves. Folland provides the platform.

I believe the negative reviews come from the fact that the readers have not yet had the sufficient preparation before coming to Folland (Poor organisation of courses exists everywhere, not students' fault). The book itself is actually a very good book to learn from.

too dense, no example
I am an engineering graduate student. however, I am not afraid of rigorous math at all and I had passed quite a few courses in graduate math before taking real analysis (with this as a text book). This book is too dense for a self study, even with a help of a professor you cannot grasp the idea until a few examples are given. The problems are difficult which is a plus, but you cannot solve them by reading 2 or 3 pages full of theorems and proofs with no intution or good explanation (even some proofs were left as an exercise!). this book is excellent if you know the subject and you want a book as a reference in your library which has everything in the shortest possible way with the proofs as short as possible, but never ever try to rely on this for a text book to learn the subject ... Read more

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This book is written by award-winning author, Frank Morgan. It offers a simple and sophisticated point of view, reflecting Morgan's insightful teaching, lecturing, and writing style. Intended for undergraduates studying real analysis, this book builds the theory behind calculus directly from the basic concepts of real numbers, limits, and open and closed sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$. It gives the three characterizations of continuity: via epsilon-delta, sequences, and open sets. It gives the three characterizations of compactness: as "closed and bounded," via sequences, and via open covers. Topics include Fourier series, the Gamma function, metric spaces, and Ascoli's Theorem. This concise text not only provides efficient proofs, but also shows students how to derive them. The excellent exercises are accompanied by select solutions. Ideally suited as an undergraduate textbook, this complete book on real analysis will fit comfortably into one semester. Frank Morgan received the first Haimo Award for distinguished college teaching from the Mathematical Association of America. He has also garnered top teaching awards from Rice University (Houston, TX) and MIT (Cambridge, MA). ... Read more

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For beginners and a quick review for not so beginners
This is no conventional Analysis book. It is written to drive the reader's focus to a single topic each time. The chapters are 1-2 pages long and it is useful for what is is thought for. Continuity? You read 1 page, straight to the point. Facts about number sets and infinity? 1 page. Obviously it leaves out many consequences, but the uniqueness of this book is that you will always find the basic facts you need right in the first page you happen to open. It is written so concisely that you will understand everything in the first read. In fact, I like to refer to it as "my first real analysis book". OK, it is true that maybe it is too much to ask $40 for it, but is definitely nice to have it around.

perfect for what it's written for
This book is simply beautiful. It is written as a textbook for just one semester of undergraduate study, and it does the job. It is concise, jet it contains all the main theorems with the proofs rigorous enough. It begins with elementary concepts of numbers and logic, and even topology (so it treats continuity via open sets as well!), compactness is treated in three different ways, Fourier series is explained, and it even touches metric spaces... The book doesn't go very deep, but it talks well about basic issues in analysis and it's rigorous enough for an undergraduate text. The book can even serve well as a manual for those who need to refresh their knowledge about main theorems of analysis while considering other fields of mathematics invoking some analysis issues, because it's concise, rigorous enough and well organized. Very useful.

Perfect start beyond linear algebra.
This book is designed to be a one semester book in undergrad analysis.

It covers almost all the material in either Rudin's or Krantz's, which are usually covered in two semesters. however, Prof. Morgan does sacrafice some of the depth that other texts go into(example: theorem a sequence is convegent <=> cauchyis only proved the forward way).

Why I like it:
-This approach is perfect. You get a solid underpinning in the basics and get a taste of many diffrent subjects, (fourier, stirling's formula, Volumes of N-balls etc...). It is perfect for a first class in upper math (beyond linear algebra).

-the problems sets are actual problem sets that should be done on a per lecture basis. other books are filled with extensive problems that usually overwhelm a student with only a linear algebra background.

-all the proofs relating to compactness are written with the three equivilent def. of compactness (closed & bounded in R^N, open covers, sequential compactness). This allows a student to fully appreciate the modern defenition of open covers for compactness.
the same goes for proofs involving continuity (sequential, epsilon-selta, inverse images of opens sets are open).
Both of these techniques makes the transition to general metric spaces, where the open covers and inverse images are primaraly used, smooth.

Real Analysis for preschoolers
This is a truly awful textbook. It is written in a patronizing and demeaning tone, suggesting the author does not consider his audience actually capable of learning real analysis. The chapters are brief, often only a single page, and seem to barely scratch the surface of the topic. Many proofs are left out altogether, with occasional suggestions that the reader "find the proof on the internet." Important concepts are also excluded or mentioned only in problems, such as the definition of a Cauchy sequence. The section on Fourier Series includes misprints in two essential definitions. The book is almost entirely void of examples, and often seems to do little more than merely list theorems. Although the price is much less than many other introductory texts, it would be worth your money to look elsewhere. ... Read more

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The leading guide to real-time systems design--revised and updated

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A fine, comprehensive textbook on real-time systems
This is a fine, comprehensive textbook for real-time systems. It covers many aspects of real-time systems in an even, consistent way. For basic, foundational knowledge, Laplante's book in its third edition is probably the finest that I have encountered.

The book is foundational and gives a good overview of concepts important to real-time systems. Don't expect to find the latest "fads" in programming or interesting "tricks of the trade" in the book; that is not the purpose of his book. I use the book to confirm and review basic concepts when developing real-time concepts.

I have 24 years experience in developing various real-time systems: medical devices, military equipment, and spacecraft instruments. I also lecture and write about real-time systems; Laplante's book is a necessary part of my library of real-time books.

A comprehensive treatment, yet written from a practical perspective
As you might imagine from any IEEE Press text, the treatment is practical yet comprehensive. The writing is clear and the author makes extensive use of diagrams wherever applicable. The author also does an excellent job describing RTOS architecture and feature utility depending on the scale of the system, which is a rare find in other books on the subject.

Although the text is not as heavily mathematical as some of the other texts, the author does present analytical techniques as needed, so the book is perfectly useful for system performance analysis. The book is very straigthforward to read and apply, so I would higly recommend this text to students both practitioners. In fact, the information is so accessible that I would go so far to say that it belongs on the bookshelf of anyone that works with real-time embedded systems, even at the academic level. ... Read more

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This book is an introduction to pattern theory, the theory behind the task of analyzing types of signals that the real world presents to us. It deals with generating mathematical models of the patterns in those signals and algorithms for analyzing the data based on these models. It exemplifies the view of applied mathematics as starting with a collection of problems from some area of science and then seeking the appropriate mathematics for clarifying the experimental data and the underlying processes of producing these data. An emphasis is placed on finding the mathematical and, where needed, computational tools needed to reach those goals, actively involving the reader in this process. Among other examples and problems, the following areas are treated: music as a realvalued function of continuous time, character recognition, the decomposition of an image into regions with distinct colors and textures, facial recognition, and scaling effects present in natural images caused by their statistical selfsimilarity. ... Read more

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Written in an easy-to-read style, Real Analysis is a comprehensive introduction to this core subject and is ideal for self-study or as a course textbook for first and second-year undergraduates. Combining an informal style with precision mathematics, Real Analysis covers all the key topics with fully worked examples and exercises with solutions. ... Read more

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The Worst Math Text Ever
This book was the example used by my mathematical writing professor as how NOT to write math texts.The formatting is strange, the theorems and definitions are buried in the text with no delineation whatsoever.There are typos throughout the book, sometimes in the middle of proofs, making the proofs even more difficult to follow.

The lack of exercises and examples are a little frustrating, as well, though this is typical of higher level math texts.I understand that the purpose of this book is to make analysis more accessible for undergraduates, but I feel that this book made the material more difficult than other, more advanced texts.Analysis is a challenging enough subject, and I feel that this book only exacerbates that.

My personal recommendation to anybody starting an analysis course, undergrad or grad is Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Walter Rudin.It's more advanced but far more thorough and illustrative in its proofs.

lacks exercises
As you might already know this book is the basic of analysis, this is literally the introductory book to analysis. It goes into Sequences and Series, Functions and Continuity, Differentiation, Integrations etc (see "contents" for more detail).

The author of this book explicitly says that a prior knowledge on Calculus is expected before reading this book and he really means it. If you did your Calculus I (limit and derivative), Calculus II (integration), and Calculus III (multivariable) a year or two ago, you need to go review at least the topics that are covered in this book. Remember all the convergence/ divergence (Comparison Test, Limit Comparison Test, Ratio Test, Root Test, Lebeniz Test, P-test etc) tests that you did in Calculus II (?) The author manages to squeeze them all in 5 pages or so.

The major drawback of this book (for me) is lack of exercise. There are very few sections which have more than 10 problems, most have 6 or less. Here is a detailed data:

chapter 1 has 6 sections but only 24 problems
chapter 2 has 7 sections but only 44 problems
chapter 3 has 7 sections but only 37 problems
chapter 4 has 5 sections but only 17 problems
chapter 5 has 7 sections but only 27 problems
chapter 6 has 3 sections but only 19 problems
chapter 7 has 3 sections but only 19 problems
chapter 8 has 2 sections but only 1 problem
chapter 9 has 3 sections but only 1 problem

thankfully solutions to all these problems are available in the back of the book. These solutions are worked out well enough.


Another drawback of the book is that it does not inspire you. In most mathematics book (or any other course book for that matter) each chapter begins with a little bit of history, real life application or something that helps connect to the student. This book barely does that. Usually, the section starts with a theorem, followed by a proof or two, and finally two three examples.

Overall imo this book is more of a "study guide" than a textbook itself. The publisher say this book can be used for self study as well as course textbook. I will admit that this is an easy self study book but i would get a more detailed textbook to tag along with this, just in case.

British Style Math Book
This is an introductory text of real analysis and it is kind of British Style (in term of the way they proved the theorems). Also, some advanced topics like "Metric" and "Generalized Riemann Integral" are not covered. If you really want to learn real analysis yourself, try Robert Bartle's "Introduction to Real Analysis", Manfred Stoll's "Introduction to Real Analysis", Apostol's "Mathematical Analysis" and Rudin's "Principle of Mathematical Analysis". Stephen Abbott's "Understanding Analysis" is also an excellent real analysis text. ... Read more

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Ideal for the one-semester undergraduate course, Basic Real Analysis is intended for students who have recently completed a traditional calculus course and proves the basic theorems of Single Variable Calculus in a simple and accessible manner. It gradually builds upon key material as to not overwhelm students beginning the course and becomes more rigorous as they progresses. Optional appendices on sets and functions, countable and uncountable sets, and point set topology are included for those instructors who wish include these topics in their course. The author includes hints throughout the text to help students solve challenging problems. An online instructor's solutions manual is also available ... Read more

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This classic textbook, now reissued, offers a clear exposition of modern probability theory and of the interplay between the properties of metric spaces and probability measures. The new edition has been made even more self-contained than before; it now includes a foundation of the real number system and the Stone-Weierstrass theorem on uniform approximation in algebras of functions. Several other sections have been revised and improved, and the comprehensive historical notes have been further amplified. A number of new exercises have been added, together with hints for solution. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (10)

Older edition, better clarity
The book is almost identical in the content to the later published Cambridge University Press copy, except for omission of the Stone-Weierstrass theorem. It has wider pages, not as bulky, and as a result somewhat easier to grasp.

A great book but not as a textbook for real analysis
I have been teaching a one semester course of Real Analysis (measure and integration) from this book. The students have already been through a course based on Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis though not the Lebesgue integral there, and pretty comfortable with metric spaces and such and the standards of mathematical proof. So as the next step in analysis this book seems to be in the right place esp. because the book advertises itself as self-contained.

While I appreciate the wonderful integration of Real Analysis and Probability and short proofs, the brevity is often achieved by omitting details rather than choosing a simpler argument and so the book is a bit too hard on the students. Many proofs are too terse and have significant gaps which often take a lot of classroom time to get over, unless you are willing to leave them puzzled. The wording in the proofs is often counterintuitive, in particular it is usually not clear if the sentence continues the line of argument or starts a new one. This is an unnecessary hiccup for the reader and it would cost just few friendly words here and there to fix. Overall the book is harder to follow than Royden's Real Analysis. Many of the exercises are great and illuminative but many are just impossibly hard.

masterpiece
This is a great book. The mathematical exposition is excellent and the historical footnotes are extremely interesting.

A classic text in theoretical probability
First of all I should say that this book was written for those interested in the foudations of probability theory (the same is also true for Prof. Kallenberg's book). Therefore beginners learning real analysis and probability for the first time and those looking for applications should look elsewhere to find out appropriate books (instead of underrating such an important text like Prof. Dudley's book).
The second point to be emphasized is that this book fills in an important gap in probability literature as it revealsnumerous links between this branch of mathematics and other areas of pure mathematics such as topology, functional analysis and, of course, measure and integration theory, while most books on advanced probability develop barely the latter connection, which is plainly insufficient for (future) researches on probability theory.
Finally, despite the complaint of some reviewers, the book is extremely well written and amazingly comprehensive. The sole prerequisite to reading it is a certain amount of "mathematical maturity" which perhaps these reviewers lack.

A classic
This is absolutely a classic book on real analysis and probability, although it is a little hard to read. Highly recommend to people working in machine learning and/or pattern recognition, since it provides almost all mathematical foundations needed to do deep research in these two fields, for example, on statistical learning theory. ... Read more

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This work focuses on integrating land-use location science with the technology of geographic information systems (GIS). The text describes the basic principles of location decision and the means for applying them in order to improve the real estate decision. ... Read more

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Journal Of Real Estate Literature review of Thrall's Book
Book Review Of Thrall's Business Geography and New Real Estate Market Analysis
by
Dr. Larry E. Wofford,
former President of the American Real Estate Society, and former Chair, Real Estate, Tulsa University
from Journal Of Real Estate Literature, American Real Estate Society. Summer 2003.

Business Geography and New Real Estate Market Analysis by Grant Thrall is an ambitious, intriguing, and valuable book. Any book that purports in its title to offer something "new" immediately generates scrutiny. With this title, Thrall casts himself a challenge to produce something that is indeed new and, in order to be worth reading, valuable. Thrall succeeds in doing both. He does so less in the spirit of invention than in the spirit of discovery and synthesis. Indeed, in the preface, Thrall writes, "This book integrates ideas, methods, technologies, and objectives in an opportunistic manner to achieve the goal of providing information to improve the real estate decision."

In overview, the book is short, only 263 pages, including references and index. The length reflects a well-thought-out design and a concise writing style. Examples, tables, and graphics are used throughout to illustrate the conceptual content and its application. The book consists of two parts. Part I, "Overview, Theory, and Methods" contains about 100 pages and provides an overview of real estate markets and submarkets, land use and land value theories, and real estate market research. Part II, "Application to Real Estate Product Types" contains about 130 pages and addresses the detailed application of the theory and techniques considered in Part I to five primary property types, with an emphasis on research design and interpretation and the use of geographic information systems to analyze and present spatial information. Thrall effectively utilizes a "mentor" writing style throughout the book without being chatty.

Part I, "Overview, Theory, and Methods" Thrall provides the reader with insightful syntheses of geographic concepts and urban land economics. His discussions of submarkets and urban land use and value theories are particularly well done. Thrall's graphical approach to urban land values skillfully integrates standard microeconomics concepts into urban land use theory. The graphical approach presented in this book is a summary of much more detailed work in numerous articles by Thrall and in his 1987 book, Land Use and Urban Form.2 The theoretical presentation is accessible to those with varying levels of economic backgrounds. After reading this part of the book, the reader is well along the way to the author's goal of reasoning geographically, a prerequisite for the next major part of the book dealing with applying this knowledge.

In the application chapters, Thrall provides a structured framework for each property type. While tailored to each property type, the basic framework begins with an analysis of the economics of the subject property type, followed by market area delineation, the estimation of supply and demand, and, ultimately, the interpretation of the results and report preparation. Issues and techniques particular to each property type, such as the use of geography-based econometric models in office analysis, are presented. In each chapter the use of appropriate geographic technology to perform geographic and economic analyses is considered within the context of spatial reasoning.

The "new" aspect of the book centers on an excellent synthesis of business geography and urban land economics and the consideration of such topics as land use and land value theories, trade area determination, demand, and supply estimation. "New" also includes the incorporation of geographic information systems technology. The application of business geography and urban land economic concepts and geographic methodology and technology to improving real estate decisions makes the book particularly valuable to both academic and professional readers. As stated by Thrall, "Another of my goals in writing this book was to bridge the gap between industry and university, and to present a structure and knowledge base that I have found beneficial in getting the job done." In short, the reader learns to reason geographically.

A common complaint among real estate professionals is that land use and value theories are seldom rigorously linked to performing market research. Thrall thoughtfully integrates GIS technology to answer this complaint. He considers problems and pitfalls with the technology, as well as its potential. Thrall focuses on providing a theoretical and applied framework designed to develop the ability to convert data into information in a spatial context. Thrall highlights the relevance of geography by educating the reader on basic concepts, relationships, and technologies available to plan, execute, and interpret real estate market research. Thrall provides a valuable guide to the "why" of real estate market research.

In the classroom, the book would be an excellent primary text, especially if supplemented by problem and case-study assignments designed to provide hands-on experience with market research and geographic information technology. It should be noted that the book does not promote a particular GIS software package and does not cover in detail how to use any particular GIS software. Excellent books, supplemented with CDs, and internet-based courses exist for learning the mechanics of how to use GIS software. The numerous examples throughout the text provide readers with a viable connection between theory and practice. Given its brevity and concise writing style, the book will also work as a supplement to other real estate market analysis texts.

Thomas Kuhn noted that, for many fields of study, innovative and valuable ideas often come from individuals trained in other disciplines.3 In a composite field as diverse as real estate, it is sometimes difficult to determine which disciplines are "in" and which are "out." Whether considered to be inside or outside the field of real estate, geography often has not been in the real estate mainstream. Business Geography and New Real Estate Market Analysis demonstrates that geography and its associated technology has much to offer the real estate field.

References

1. Grant Thrall, Business Geography and New Real Estate Market Analysis(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).

2. Grant Thrall, Land Use and Urban Form (New York: Methuen, Inc., 1987).

3. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, second edition, enlarged (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1970).

BEST BOOK Real Estate Market Analysis & Business Geography
This book defines and establishes business geography as an academic field, and lays the foundations for best practices in business geography and real estate market analysis. This book succeeds in bridging the gap between the academic and the practitioner.

This book covers spatial intelligence for retail, office, industrial, housing, hospitality, and mixed use. The general principles are presented along with case studies.

From viewing the author's web page, I see that Thrall has been invited to present overviews of his book at the best business schools and geography departments, including the Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania), the Haas School of Business (University of California, Berkeley), and the Dept of Geography at UC Santa Barbara as the 2004 Distinguished Golledge Lecturer.

A must read!

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There is almost no resemblance between this the principals and tools presented in this book and the more advanced cutting edge spatial analysis currently being taught at some of the more advanced academic institutions and being practiced at some of the larger real estate investment firms.

Save your money!!!!!!!!!!!!

Academia meets Business....Geography meets Real Estate
A genuine blueprint for anybody (student or analyst) working in the field of Site Selection.A deep insight into theoretical concepts as well as practical analysis.The book is subdivided into appropriate sections regarding the history and modern day locational analysis for different types of uses. ... Read more

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"IEEE Press is pleased to bring you this Second Edition of Phillip A. Laplante's best-selling and widely-acclaimed practical guide to building real-time systems. This book is essential for improved system designs, faster computation, better insights, and ultimate cost savings. Unlike any other book in the field, REAL-TIME SYSTEMS DESIGN AND ANALYSIS provides a holistic, systems-based approach that is devised to help engineers write problem-solving software. Laplante's no-nonsense guide to real-time system design features practical coverage of:

• Related technologies and their histories
• Time-saving tips * Hands-on instructions
• Pascal code
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Customer Reviews (7)

Excellent primer
The preface to this book says it is suitable for a college student or an engineer trying to get up to speed with real time systems.An excellent overview.

Too cursory except as a text book
The preface to this book says it is suitable for a college student or an engineer trying to get up to speed with real time systems. The latter is nonsense. It may work for a college course where a skilled instructor is adding material but it is far too cursory to apply. The first 6 chapters are basic material for any curriculum on programming. The chapters that follow mention difficulties but give no techniques that can be applied. Nothing in this would enable a person, previous unprepared to do so, to write a real time system.

This book says it eschews mathematical formalism for practical utility. What it lacks is both a formal foundation and practical utility. The exercises (completely without sample answers) are terribly thought out. The description of difficulties of real time job scheduling are a list of known problems and some references to other papers. Sample code included is too specific to be general, and too general to be directly applicable.

Worthless book-- don't buy it
I am VERY VERY disappointed that IEEE publishes this book. IEEE usually has very high standard in publishing books under its name. However, it does not happen in this book. I have no clue why IEEE decides to publish this book. This book has a collection of VERY superficial knowledge that you can find from all entry level undergraduate books. It does not help engineers AT ALL as the book title claims. It misses LOTS of important real-time theories. Some theories mentioned in the book are either too superficial or even incorrect. As another reviewer states, the most important and widely used real-time scheduling theory, the rate-monotonic, is mentioned in the book by ONE single sentence. Can you believe this book is a real-time system book? Again, I am very disappointed this book get published. All my classmates believed this book is terribly BAD and we told our instructor. Don't spend your money on this expensive and useless book. If you want to know the practical aspect of real-time systems, check Mr. Simon's book "An Embedded Software Primer". All my classmates love this book. If you want to know the theory aspect of real-time systems, check Dr. Jane Liu's "Real-Time Systems" book published in 2000.

Excellent book, not certain it is worth the price
I think that this is an excellent introductory book that covers a broadrange of items related to Real Time Systems.Unfortunately, I am not surethat it warrants the steep price.

Expensive and Cursory but Readable
There's not enough material to warrant the price. The book is easy to read, but the author repeats himself far too much.As justus@acm.org notes, the book is full of of filler sentences, paragraphs, andchapters.

The title of the book seems incorrect, since the real-timeportion of the book is skimpy. Rate-monotonic analysis,synonomous withreal-time in academia, is only given a sentence. Ada, "the"real-time programming language, is barely mentioned.While Ada's pros andcons can be debated, it is almost completely skipped. On the other hand,software engineering practices, design methodologies, and testing havetheir own chapters.

I didn't hate the book, but felt cheated afterpaying [the money]. ... Read more

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Today, nearly every undergraduate mathematics program requires at least one semester of real analysis. Often, students consider this course to be the most challenging or even intimidating of all their mathematics major requirements. The primary goal of A Problem Book in Real Analysis is to alleviate those concerns by systematically solving the problems related to the core concepts of most analysis courses. In doing so, the authors hope that learning analysis becomes less taxing and more satisfying.

The wide variety of exercises presented in this book range from the computational to the more conceptual and varies in difficulty. They cover the following subjects: set theory; real numbers; sequences; limits of the functions; continuity; differentiability; integration; series; metric spaces; sequences; and series of functions and fundamentals of topology. Furthermore, the authors define the concepts and cite the theorems used at the beginning of each chapter. A Problem Book in Real Analysis is not simply a collection of problems; it intends to stimulate its readers to independent thought in discovering analysis.

Prerequisites for accessing this book are a robust understanding of calculus and linear algebra.

Customer Reviews (2)

good practice, nice book
My math teacher recommended I buy this book for extra practice. There are a ton of problems, and the solutions are usually easy to follow. Also, although this is not that important, the book is really well bound, has a hardcover, and seems more like a textbook than a problem book. A little pricey, but well worth it..

REALLY useful book!
I am taking an analysis this quarter, and this book is helping me survive the course. Analysis is all about writing proofs, and there is really no other way to learn how to write proofs other than to try problems and compare your answers to the solutions. This book has many problems, and the solutions are broken down step by step so that they are really easy to follow. An extra bonus was that certain problems I did in this book showed up on homework assignments and the midterm. It seems the authors have a good sense of the types of problems featured in a standard analysis course, and the types of problem's analysis teachers like to ask on exams and homework. Especially if you find your primary textbook hard to follow (like I did), I highly recommend this book. ... Read more

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Real Estate Damages provides practical solutions to a variety of valuation problems relating to property damage caused by natural disasters, soil subsidence, earthquake damage, environmental contamination, and other detrimental conditions. Case studies and examples of appraisals involving actual detrimental conditions are presented. ... Read more