Riemann Approach to Integration: Local Geometric Theory: 109 (Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, Series Number 109) - Softcover

Pfeffer, Washek F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521056829 ISBN 13: 9780521056823

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This book presents a detailed and mostly elementary exposition of the generalised Riemann-Stieltjes integrals discovered by Henstock, Kurzweil, and McShane. Along with the classical results, it contains some recent developments connected with lipeomorphic change of variables and the divergence theorem for discontinuously differentiable vector fields. Defining the Lebesgue integral in Euclidean spaces from the McShane point of view has a clear pedagogical advantage: the initial stages of development are both conceptually and technically simpler. The McShane integral evolves naturally from the initial ideas about integration taught in basic calculus courses. The difficult transition from subdividing the domain to subdividing the range, intrinsic to the Lebeque definition, is completely bypassed. The unintuitive Caratheodory concept of measurability is also made more palatable by means of locally fine partitions. Although written as a monograph, the book can be used as a graduate text, and certain portions of it can be presented even to advanced undergraduate students with a working knowledge of limits, continuity and differentiation on the real line.

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Review

"The author presents a detailed exposition of some recent (Riemann!) approaches to generalized integrals of real-valued functions on compact intervals in Euclidean spaces Rm (m>=1)...The author presents this theory in a very complete, thorough manner." R.G. Bartle, Mathematical Reviews

Book Description

This book presents a detailed and mostly elementary exposition of the generalised Riemann-Stieltjes integrals discovered by Henstock, Kurzweil, and McShane more than thirty years ago. Aside from classical results, it contains some recent developments connected with lipeomorphic change of variable and the divergence theorem for discontinuously differentiable vector fields.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521056829
• ISBN 13: 9780521056823
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 324