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Based on the authors' courses and lectures, this two-part advanced-level text is now available in a single volume. Topics include metric and normed spaces, continuous curves in metric spaces, measure theory, Lebesque intervals, Hilbert space, and more. Each section contains exercises. Lists of symbols, definitions, and theorems. 1957 edition.
One-volume reprint of the two-volume edition published by the Graylock Press, Rochester, New York, 1957.
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