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Anonymous12/30/25, 05:15No.16880776Abbott real analysis
Is it neccesary to do all the exercises or do i just do a few of them per sub section?
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Anon12/30/25, 05:46No.16880786
yes, so choose a better book with better exercises.
I could write down the basic theorems of undergrad analysis on two pieces of paper, and we can pretend it's true cause some jewish guy said so. Or you can understand how mathematics, the language of gods, actually works.
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Anon12/30/25, 06:02No.16880792
If you have to ask, you don't know what you are doing. Try proving a theorem before reading the author's and maybe that will help you see the importance of exercises. If you want to be able to understand more advanced books, you will need the exercises to reinforece the material. Try that, open a non-friendly, advanced textbook. The problem with Abbott is that it is the kind of textbook for people who will only have a single "higher" math requirement, like those studying for secondary school teaching. Even Spivak's Calculus may have harder exercises than Abbott's.
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Anon12/30/25, 08:04No.16880850
In my opinion, it's better to not get hung up on doing exercises. A lot of the time, books have way too many exercises, and trying to finish them all, or even a sizeable amount, is such a daunting task, that it makes opening the book a chore. If skipping every exercise is what it takes to get through the book, then that's your better option.
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Anon12/30/25, 12:14No.16880995
Depends entirely on if you have an honest professor.
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Anon12/30/25, 15:42No.16881105
Why are zoomers scared of Rudin?
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Anon12/30/25, 15:56No.16881117
if you cant do the exercises in your head while your reading what's the point
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Anon01/01/26, 03:33No.16882256
Waste of time since it implies real numbers can be manipulated in any meaningful way. Real number arithmetic isn’t even properly defined lol. In b4 but it is. Then tell me what [math]\pi + e[\math] is and you’re not allowed to give a circular answer.
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Anon01/01/26, 08:53No.16882384
This is an arithmetic problem.
How much time do you have?
How much time can you spend for each problem?
5 mins, 10 mins, 30 mins?
Does it make sense?
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Anon01/02/26, 00:27No.16882887
anons what do we think of terry's analysis books and its excercises?
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Anon01/04/26, 02:37No.16884437
Without doing the exercises it's like reading a graphic novel adaptation of a book.
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Anon01/09/26, 10:30No.16887859
Are there any other real analysis textbookss that have solutions withinn them?
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Anon01/10/26, 05:26No.16888414
Has anyone tried out going through lang's undergraduate real analysis textbook?
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Anon01/11/26, 18:09No.16889400
Do as many exercises as it takes for your to feel confident you understand the material.
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Anon01/11/26, 18:16No.16889402
I wish someone made a real analysis textbook for physicists, where it has lots of applications tp physics to stay better motivated.
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Anon01/14/26, 01:10No.16891195
Try reading another analysis text at the same time, it should help you understand things a bit better.
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Anon01/14/26, 02:40No.16891237
I wish i was faster at self studying, i can read really fast but problem solving is slow
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Anon01/14/26, 10:23No.16891493
Mathematical Analysis by Brennan has full solutions at the back.
Fundamentals Of Mathematical Analysis by Haggarty has full solutions at the back.
Real Analysis by Howie has full solutions at the back.Brennan's book is by far the easiest book that I've listed. It was written specifically for adult learners to teach themselves Analysis as part of the Open University's mathematics distance learning degree programme in the UK. Howie's book is slightly easier than Abbott's. I haven't worked through Haggarty's book but I've flicked through it and it looks decent.You haven't heard of these books because they're British and most people online only recommend American books.
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Anon01/14/26, 10:56No.16891527
analysis is my fav since thats when everyone does the shinanigans to understand it like calc 1-3 and linear algebra even though conceptualizing mutli dimensional spaces is easy as fuck with a PRI NVIQ of 115+ lmao
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Anon01/15/26, 04:50No.16892156
Abbotts first chapter is hard to understand, i hope i figure out more from solving the problems, he writes too terse at times amd he doesnt make enough graphs that would help in understanding what is going on.
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Anon01/15/26, 23:06No.16892714
I'll be doing five problems from chapter 1 tommorrow, its too bad i still don't fully understand chapter 1 of abbott. I'll let yall anons know how it goes in terms of understanding.
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Anon01/18/26, 04:10No.16894022
I did it, i did the five problems in my head, i understand supremum and infimum a bit better now, i had tp use the solutions to verify if my answers were correct.
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Anon01/18/26, 04:13No.16894023
Now ill be moving onto chapter 2 of abbott's book, sequences and series.
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Anon01/20/26, 05:12No.16895227
I just did two more problems from abbott
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Anon01/21/26, 20:29No.16896231
I read up to chapter 2.2 today
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Anon01/27/26, 17:09No.16900276
Today's the day I start doing problems from Abbott again, ill try to do 2 problems, real analysis is boring, so far it doesn't interest me, I just need it to get through complex analysis as a prerequisite