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Robert Gardner Bartle (November 20, 1927 – September 18, 2003) was an American
mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...
specializing in
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. He is known for writing the popular
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s ''The Elements of Real Analysis'' (1964), ''The Elements of Integration'' (1966), and ''Introduction to Real Analysis'' (2011) published by
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. Bartle was born in
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, and was the son of Glenn G. Bartle and Wanda M. Bartle. He was married to Doris Sponenberg Bartle (born 1927) from 1952 to 1982 and they had two sons, James A. Bartle (born 1955) and John R. Bartle (born 1958). He was on the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at the
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from 1955 to 1990. Bartle was Executive Editor of ''
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'' from 1976 to 1978 and from 1986 to 1990. From 1990 to 1999 he taught at
Eastern Michigan University Eastern Michigan University (EMU, Eastern Michigan or simply Eastern), is a public research university in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School, the school was the fourth normal school established in the United Sta ...
. In 1997, he earned a writing award from the
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for his paper "Return to the
Riemann Integral In the branch of mathematics known as real analysis, the Riemann integral, created by Bernhard Riemann, was the first rigorous definition of the integral of a function on an interval. It was presented to the faculty at the University of GĂ ...
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References

* Robert G. Bartle (1990
"A brief history of the mathematical literature"
* Jane E. Kister & Donald R. Sherbert (2004
"Robert G. Bartle (1927 — 2003)"
''Notices of the American Mathematical Society'' 51(2):239–40. *


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bartle, Robert G. 1927 births 2003 deaths Functional analysts Mathematical analysts Scientists from Kansas City, Missouri Mathematicians from Missouri Scientists from Missouri American textbook writers University of Illinois faculty Eastern Michigan University faculty