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Title: Among the best math books I've ever read
Review: I am not an analyst, but this book is fun to read.This book does something that few others textbooks accomplish - it tells an interesting and compelling story. I didn't really understand measure until reading this book, which does a great job of laying out the various competing ideas of the time and how they evolved into the current notion.Further - and perhaps most important for a math book - is that the proofs are very clear and complete. It's true that many important concepts are left as exercises, but those that are covered in the text are covered well. In contrast, I have suffered too many math texts that attempt to cover every important result but with only short, uninformative proofs (e.g. "Proof: By Radon-Nikodym and Corollary 2 of Theorem 5 QED").
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