Author | Giaquinta, Mariano. author |
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Title | Mathematical Analysis [electronic resource] : Approximation and Discrete Processes / by Mariano Giaquinta, Giuseppe Modica |
Imprint | Boston, MA : Birkhรคuser Boston : Imprint: Birkhรคuser, 2004 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4414-7 |
Descript | XII, 388 p. online resource |
1. Real Numbers and Natural Numbers -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Axiomatic Approach to Real Numbers -- 1.3 Natural Numbers -- 1.4 Summing Up -- 1.5 Exercises -- 2. Sequences of Real Numbers -- 2.1 Sequences -- 2.2 Equivalent Formulations of the Continuity Axiom -- 2.3 Limits of Sequences and Continuity -- 2.4 Some Special Sequences -- 2.5 An Alternative Definition of Exponentials and Logarithms -- 2.6 Summing Up -- 2.7 Exercises -- 3. Integer Numbers: Congruences, Counting and Infinity -- 3.1 Congruences -- 3.2 Combinatorics -- 3.3 Infinity -- 3.4 Summing Up -- 3.5 Exercises -- 4. Complex Numbers -- 4.1 Complex Numbers -- 4.2 Sequences of Complex Numbers -- 4.3 Some Elementary Applications -- 4.4 Summing Up -- 4.5 Exercises -- 5. Polynomials, Rational Functions and Trigonometric Polynomials -- 5.1 Polynomials -- 5.2 Solutions of Polynomial Equations -- 5.3 Rational Functions -- 5.4 Sinusoidal Functions and Their Sums -- 5.5 Summing Up -- 5.6 Exercises -- 6. Series -- 6.1 Basic Facts -- 6.2 Taylor Series, e and ? -- 6.3 Series of Nonnegative Terms -- 6.4 Series of Terms of Arbitrary Sign -- 6.5 Series of Products -- 6.6 Products of Series -- 6.7 Rearrangements -- 6.8 Summing Up -- 6.9 Exercises -- 7. Power Series -- 7.1 Basic Theory -- 7.2 Further Results -- 7.3 Some Applications -- 7.4 Further Applications -- 7.5 Summing Up -- 7.6 Exercises -- 8. Discrete Processes -- 8.1 Recurrences -- 8.2 One-Dimensional Dynamical Systems -- 8.3 Two-Dimensional Dynamical Systems -- 8.4 Exercises -- A. Mathematicians and Other Scientists -- B. Bibliographical Notes -- C. Index