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10: Epilogue to Real Analysis

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  • 10.1: On the Nature of Numbers
    Three friends meet in a garden for lunch in Renassaince Italy. Prior to their meal they discuss the book How We Got From There to Here: A Story of Real Analysis. How they obtained a copy is not clear.
  • 10.2: Building the Real Numbers
    Contrary to the title of this section we will not be rigorously building the real numbers here. Instead our goal is to show why such a build is logically necessary, and to give a sense of some of the ways this has been accomplished in the past. This may seem odd given our uniform emphasis on mathematical rigor, especially in the third part of the text, but there are very good reasons for this.

Thumbnail: Real number line with some constants such as π. (Public Domain; User:Phrood).


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