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Topology of \(\mathbb{R}\) and Continuity

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Roughly speaking, a quantity y is said to depend continuously on a quantity x if “small” changes in x result in small changes in y. Our goal in this chapter is to make this statement mathematically precise.

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Sohrab, H.H. (2014). Topology of \(\mathbb{R}\) and Continuity. In: Basic Real Analysis. Birkhäuser, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1841-6_4

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