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Title: Very Mediocre Contents, Terrible Aesthetics
Review: I was very disappointed in this book and judging from the steady decline of the resale price here on amazon.com, I can see others agree.First of all the book looks like it was photocopied in someone's basement - the text is completely faded out and paper feels terrible. For almost $100, I expect a little more.The actual contents of the book are not much better. I found Royden (the required text for our class) to be very sparse and was hoping for something to fill in the details. This book did little to help. It covers integration in a rather idiosyncratic way, devotes little time to differentiation, and says nothing about convexity.If you are looking for a good anaysis book I recommend either "Lebesgue Integration on Euclidean Space" by Frank Jones or the slightly more abstract "Real and Functional Analysis" by Serge Lange
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