Contents
Preface
To the Student
To the Instructor
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The Real Number System
1.1 The Field Properties
1.2 The Order Properties
1.3 Natural Numbers ..
1.4 Rational Numbers..
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The Archimedean Property.
The Completeness Property
*"The" Complete Ordered Field
Sequences
2.1 B asic Concepts: Convergence and Limits
2.2 Algebra of Limits ...
2.3 Inequalities and Limits
2.4 Divergence to Infinity.
2.5 Monotone Sequences.
2.6 Subsequences and Cluster Points.
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Cauchy Sequences.........
*countable and Uncountable Sets
*Upper and Lower Limits
Topology of the Real Number System
3.1 Neighborhoods and Open Sets.
3.2 Closed Sets and Cluster Points.
3.3 * Compact Sets.....
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