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H**G
Scratches
Hard cover indeed, but there are some scratches
T**N
Excellent book
I just finished 1/3 of volume I, and the readability is astounding! Tao came up with really interesting examples and exquisite organizations to make the material both accessible and fun. It also focuses on the establishments (which seem trivial but are not) that other books tend to ignore. Perfect book for connoisseurs and beginners.
W**I
One of the best books about analysis
Great book. I’m currently self studying it, and it feels awesome. The book is written in a way that is as smooth as a chocolate in your mouth.
T**S
Unique perspective but too much is missing
First off, Terence Tao is the GOAT, and perhaps the currently living mathematician who is closest to understanding (and working on) all of the important areas of contemporary math like Hilbert and Poincaré did. Thus, this book provides a great perspective of how he makes informal, intuitive arguments (often presented as "proofs" or examples explicitly marked "(Informal)"), as well as a fully rigorous and logically airtight development of real analysis starting from the natural numbers and the axioms of set theory.That said, this book is rather unsuitable for self-study and is really meant for the honors course that he teaches at UCLA. In some chapters, around half of the theorems/propositions in the main text are not given proofs, and are instead assigned as homework exercises. This is great for a course taught by a masterful teacher like Tao, but much less useful and potentially frustrating for a beginner trying to learn the material on his/her own.I bought this book having had a full course based on the first 8 chapters of Rudin, and a substantial amount of self study from a number of intermediate texts like Carothers and Tao's measure theory book, so I have some familiarity with the standard counterexamples and proof techniques, and most of the book's exercises I either know the answer to from memory or can figure out without much difficulty (although he does throw in some challenge questions!!). But without at least a foundational amount of prior knowledge, I'm afraid this book will be too much of a challenge for the vast majority of students due to all the things they are expected to fill in.Still, it's great to see how Tao thinks about elementary analysis from a high castle on the mountaintop!
J**1
item arrived in poor state
The printing quality is fine. But the cover arrived damaged, some pages were stained, and the smell was simply terrible.
E**M
Poor physical quality book
The contents are fine.The physical book condition is so bad.It looks damaged , i can live with that.But it seems it is stored so badly it contains some alergic material so whenever i open it , it makes me feel like some invisible bug is biting me.I would definately have requested refund if i live in the state. But i got it shipped oversea.Hope i just got the bad apple by chance
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