This graduate-level textbook and monograph defines the functions of a real variable through consistent use of the Daniell scheme, offering a rare and useful alternative to customary approaches. The treatment can be understood by any reader with a solid background in advanced calculus, and it features many problems with hints and answers. -The exposition is fresh and sophisticated, - declared Sci-Tech Book News, -and will engage the interest of accomplished mathematicians.-
Part one is devoted to the integral, moving from the Reimann integral and step functions to a general theory,...