Concise Introduction To Pure Mathematics Answers

For anyone who's interested, I was browsing in Waterstones earlier today and noticed that there's a Third Edition of this book out now.

The author has added 3 chapters at the end giving a gentle intro to some of the concepts of Analysis, and has also included answers for the odd-numbered exercises.

This book often turns up on university recommended reading lists, so well worth a look!

(Original post by davros)
For anyone who's interested, I was browsing in Waterstones earlier today and noticed that there's a Third Edition of this book out now.

The author has added 3 chapters at the end giving a gentle intro to some of the concepts of Analysis, and has also included answers for the odd-numbered exercises.

This book often turns up on university recommended reading lists, so well worth a look!

I may have to pick that up. It's annoying knowing that I've now got the obsolete edition. :p:
Cheers for the heads up, will rep at midnight.

I've had that book in my wishlist on Amazon for a while, it looks really good. I just need to wait until college starts and I get my EMA so I can buy it .

What are people's personal thoughts on the book?

A gentler introduction to analysis would've been bloody helpful. :nothing:

:mmm:

(Original post by jennikay)
A gentler introduction to analysis would've been bloody helpful. :nothing:

:mmm:

This does a pretty good job of that for me.
Yet Another Introduction to Analysis by Victor Bryant.

hmm I have the second edition. It has 22 chapters one of which is an introducton to analysis. No answers though but there's always TSR if you're stuck or want to check. I doubt there's much point buying the 3rd edition if you already have the 2nd.

The answers are a good addition.

ugh, i bought the second edition like a month ago

Oooh that looks interesting Thanks

(Original post by jennikay)
A gentler introduction to analysis would've been bloody helpful. :nothing:

:mmm:

Gentler than what? Have you had a bad experience with Analysis then?

(Original post by davros)
Gentler than what? Have you had a bad experience with Analysis then?

Gentler than the analysis course at imperial. :mmm: God I hated analysis. It had the most boring lecturer EVER and I stopped turning up after the first few lectures. Hated it with a passion. I got 14/100 in that module :mmm:

I don't have to do analysis for a year now :yeah:

I've got a copy of the 2nd edition, but in all honesty I haven't read much of it (although the stuff I have read has been very good).

(Original post by jennikay)
Gentler than the analysis course at imperial. :mmm: God I hated analysis. It had the most boring lecturer EVER and I stopped turning up after the first few lectures. Hated it with a passion. I got 14/100 in that module :mmm:

I don't have to do analysis for a year now :yeah:

That's a shame. "Calculus" by Michael Spivak is an amazing book if you want to get back into Analysis... I'm probably biased, since my Analysis lecturer last year was really good, but when you get beyond the nitpicking, Analysis really is a fascinating and rewarding field It'd be a shame for it to be ruined by a boring lecturer.

(Original post by nuodai)
I've got a copy of the 2nd edition, but in all honesty I haven't read much of it (although the stuff I have read has been very good).

Well I've got two analysis modules in second year so I probably should get back into it. :mmm:

(Original post by jennikay)
Well I've got two analysis modules in second year so I probably should get back into it. :mmm:

Are you sure you haven't got more? They might not have 'analysis' in the title.

(Original post by IrrationalNumber)
Are you sure you haven't got more? They might not have 'analysis' in the title.

I'm only doing half a maths degree this time round so I only have two compulsory Analysis modules in second year (the other compulsory on is algebra :daydreaming: )

In first year I've got two calculus modules :dontknow: but that implies that I don't have an entire module on series and convergence :ahee:

I bought an older edition of this a few years ago. It's a nice book, a shame it didnt have answers until now. I'm looking for something to get into pure maths (I've just done a physics degree and hated how handwavey they were with anything mathsy) - sounds like it might be worth getting the new edition, lol.

(Original post by jennikay)
I'm only doing half a maths degree this time round so I only have two compulsory Analysis modules in second year (the other compulsory on is algebra :daydreaming: )

In first year I've got two calculus modules :dontknow: but that implies that I don't have an entire module on series and convergence :ahee:

To be fair, Manchester analysis in the first year is like 10 times easier than other unis. They only really focus on linear algebra and calculus.

Actually, you do series in that. But, like only using L' Hopital. The second calculus is mechanics, how you like mechanics?

(Original post by nuodai)
I've got a copy of the 2nd edition, but in all honesty I haven't read much of it (although the stuff I have read has been very good).

Isn't that book too simple for you?, Its like a introduction to something you have studied for like 2 years.

(Original post by Farhan.Hanif93)
This does a pretty good job of that for me.
Yet Another Introduction to Analysis by Victor Bryant.

Thats sort of a waste of money. Its not really a good book. You won't learn much from it.

(Original post by Simplicity)
To be fair, Manchester analysis in the first year is like 10 times easier than other unis. They only really focus on linear algebra and calculus.

Actually, you do series in that. But, like only using L' Hopital. The second calculus is mechanics, how you like mechanics?

Yeah, first year looks pretty simple. But then I did badly fail first year at Imperial so I'm still going to turn up to lectures and do work and the like. :mmm:

I like mechanics. :bigsmile:

Thats sort of a waste of money. Its not really a good book. You won't learn much from it.

It looked OK to me. :dontknow: I'm fine with not learning much depth as long as I understand it. At Imperilol they just chucked us in at the deep end and I didn't get it.

(Original post by Simplicity)
Isn't that book too simple for you?, Its like a introduction to something you have studied for like 2 years.

I bought it in the summer before starting uni, so at the time it wasn't.

(Original post by nuodai)
That's a shame. "Calculus" by Michael Spivak is an amazing book if you want to get back into Analysis...

But it's bloody difficult! I bought it few weeks ago and it was all going well till it showed me the basic properties of functions and then asked me to derive what it called the 'Lagrange Interpolation Formula'. The explanations are clear and easy, but the excercise is a monster (but at the same time very guiding). I plan to keep struggling with it, though -- hope it will worth it.