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This is the first of three sections devoted to basic definitions, notation, and terminology used throughout this book. We begin with an elementary and intuitive discussion of sets and deliberately avoid a rigorous treatment of “set theory” that would take us too far from our main purpose.
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Ziemer, W.P. (2017). Preliminaries. In: Modern Real Analysis. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 278. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64629-9_1
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