''Principles of Mathematical Analysis'', colloquially known as "''PMA''" or "''Baby Rudin''," is an undergraduate

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written by

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. Initially published by

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in 1953, it is one of the most famous mathematics textbooks ever written, and is renowned for its elegant and concise style of proof.

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As a

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, Rudin taught the real analysis course at

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in the 1951–1952 academic year. After he commented to

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, who served as a consulting editor for

, that there were no textbooks covering the course material in a satisfactory manner, Martin suggested Rudin write one himself. After completing an outline and a sample chapter, he received a contract from McGraw Hill. He completed the manuscript in the spring of 1952, and it was published the year after. Rudin noted that in writing his textbook, his purpose was "to present a beautiful area of thematics in a well-organized readable way, concisely, efficiently, with complete and correct proofs. It was an sthetic pleasure to work on it."

Rudin's text was the first modern English text on classical real analysis, and its organization of topics has been frequently imitated. In Chapter 1, he constructs the real and complex numbers and outlines their properties. (In later editions, the

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construction is sent to an appendix for pedagogical reasons.) Chapter 2 discusses the topological properties of the real numbers as a metric space. The rest of the text covers topics such as

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, differentiation, the

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, sequences and series of functions (in particular

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), and outlines examples such as

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, the

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and

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, the

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, and

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. After this single-variable treatment, Rudin goes in detail about real analysis in more than one dimension, with discussion of the

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and inverse function theorems,

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, the

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, and the

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Principles of Mathematical Analysis
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