I've been learning real analysis from this book:
Elementary Analysis, K.A. Ross
I really liked the style of this book. It is quite old, and sometimes very difficult, but I guess I liked the way it lays out analysis very precise and rigorously. Although, I'm a first-year math student and I don't have much to compare it with.
We just finished this book at my university, and now we are studying: "Analysis from $ℝ$ to $ℝ^n$: multivariable functions" as it is called. The "book" we use is written by the university, and to be fair, I just don't understand it. I think that if I had attended all the lectures then it would have worked out otherwise. But now I'm quite sure that some definitions/theorems/tricks to solve the questions are just missing in the text. I get completely frustrated by this.
Would anybody know a good sequel to Elementary Analysis by Ross?
These are the names of the chapters of the book we use:
1. Normed vector spaces and limits
1.1 Normed vector spaces
1.2 Limits of functions and continuity
1.3 Operator norm
2. Differentiation of functions from $ℝ^n$ to $ℝ^m$
3. The chain rule
4. Geometric interpretation of derivatives
5. Mean value theorem: Higher partial derivatives
6. Taylor series in use
7. Extremes
8. Higher total derivatives: Taylor series
Best Answer
multivariable analysis, as well known as analysis on manifolds, uses ideas of vector calculus, and linear algebra, as well ideas taught to you in your former analysis course, if you want to learn it well, off course you should be familiar with multivariable calculus, may be at Hubbard, Loomis level, and for linear algebra a review of abstract topics would suffice, if you have those prerequisites, you would be able to read great books on analysis on manifolds, the best books i know on these topics are Spivak's Calculus on manifolds, Loomis Advanced calculus and Munkres Analysis on manifolds, one of those would suffice for cover your course material.
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