Saul Stahl 
Real Analysis [EPUB ebook] 
A Historical Approach

Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
1. Archimedes and the Parabola
1.1 The Area of the Parabolic Segment
1.2 The Geometry of the Parabola
2. Fermat, Differentiation, and Integration
2.1 Fermat’s Calculus
3. Newton’s Calculus (Part 1)
3.1 The Fractional Binomial Theorem
3.2 Areas and Infinite Series
3.3 Newton’s Proofs
4. Newton’s Calculus (Part 2)
4.1 The Solution of Differential Equations
4.2 The Solution of Algebraic Equations
Chapter Appendix. Mathematica implementations of Newton’s
algorithm
5. Euler
5.1 Trigonometric Series
6. The Real Numbers
6.1 An Informal Introduction
6.2 Ordered Fields
6.3 Completeness and Irrational Numbers
6.4 The Euclidean Process
6.5 Functions
7. Sequences and Their Limits
7.1 The Definitions
7.2 Limit Theorems
8. The Cauchy Property
8.1 Limits of Monotone Sequences
8.2 The Cauchy Property
9. The Convergence of Infinite Series
9.1 Stock Series
9.2 Series of Positive Terms
9.3 Series of Arbitrary Terms
9.4 The Most Celebrated Problem
10. Series of Functions
10.1 Power Series
10.2 Trigonometric Series
11. Continuity
11.1 An Informal Introduction
11.2 The Limit of a Function
11.3 Continuity
11.4 Properties of Continuous Functions
12. Differentiability
12.1 An Informal Introduction to Differentiation
12.2 The Derivative
12.3 The Consequences of Differentiability
12.4 Integrability
13. Uniform Convergence
13.1 Uniform and Non-Uniform Convergence
13.2 Consequences of Uniform Convergence
14. The Vindication
14.1 Trigonometric Series
14.2 Power Series
15. The Riemann Integral
15.1 Continuity Revisited
15.2 Lower and Upper Sums
15.3 Integrability
Appendix A. Excerpts from ‘Quadrature of the Parabola’ by
Archimedes
Appendix B. On a Method for Evaluation of Maxima and Minima by
Pierre de Fermat
Appendix C. From a Letter to Henry Oldenburg on the Binomial
Series (June 13, 1676) by Isaac Newton
Appendix D. From a Letter to Henry Oldenburg on the Binomial
Series (October 24, 1676) by Isaac Newton
Appendix E. Excerpts from ‘Of Analysis by Equations of an
Infinite Number of Terms’ by Isaac Newton
Appendix F. Excerpts from ‘Subsiduum Calculi Sinuum’ by Leonhard
Euler)
Solutions to Selected Exercises
Bibliography
Index

SAUL STAHL, Ph D, is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Kansas. He has published numerous journal articles in his areas of research interest, which include combinatorics, discrete mathematics, and topological graph theory. Dr. Stahl is the author of Introductory Modern Algebra: A Historical Approach and Introduction to Topology and Geometry, both published by Wiley. He was awarded the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award from the Mathematical Association of America for expository articles in both 1986 and 2006.