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Title: A big mistake
Review: I selected this text for my undergraduate analysis class. It was a big mistakeit starts out nice and chatty and "friendly" but the author soon buries thematerial in detailed tangential remarks. Particularly annoying ishis comparing exercises to many previous ( and future!!) problems inthe text. Togetherbwith the remarks the text grinds to a halt tryingto leaf back and forth to reference them. My students found this bookto be very difficult. Even simple things to prove he sometimes refersthe reader to previous material. My students need help on simplethings involving series say. He includes so many different ratio testsfor example and then has few straightforward probs for them to do.It was an ordeal selecting problemsfor them to do.Many of the easy ones he refers them to previous probs inthe text so the student refers back to the earlier solution insteadof proving it himself. A really bad experience!
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