The Number Systems of Analysis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789812386069)

Although students of analysis are familiar with real and complex numbers, few treatments of analysis deal with the development of such numbers in any depth. An understanding of number systems at a fundamental level is necessary for a deeper grasp of analysis. Beginning with elementary concepts from logic and set theory, this book develops in turn the natural numbers, the integers and the rational, real and complex numbers. The development is motivated by the need to solve polynomial equations, and the book concludes by proving that such equations have solutions in the complex number system.

Author: Charles Little,Bruce Van-Brunt,Kee L. Teo
ISBN-10: 9812386068
ISBN-13: 9789812386069
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2003
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.68h x 6.78w x 0.81d