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The Real Numbers

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Real analysis of one variable is based on a description of the main structures (algebraic, ordered, and metric) of \(\mathbb {R}\), as well as on the connections between them.

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Choudary, A.D.R., Niculescu, C.P. (2014). The Real Numbers. In: Real Analysis on Intervals. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2148-7_1

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