Everybody can sympathise with Cauchy students who just wanted to pass their exams and with his colleagues who just wanted standard material taught in the standard way. Most people neither need nor want to know about rigorous analysis.
But there remains a small group for whom the ideas and methods of rigorous analysis represent one of the most splendid triumphs of the human intellect. T. W. Körner - A Companion to Analysis A Second First and First Second Course.
Friday 24 December 2010
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