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Agree, Rudin is excellent as a second course on real analysis, but as a first one it is absolutely terrible.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Agree, Rudin is excellent as a second course on real analysis, but as a first one it is absolutely terrible.
- bell-cot 4y ago+1, but nitpicking: There are situations where baby Rudin ("Principles of Mathematical Analysis") can be very good for a first course...but those are corner cases, that you'd want a really good, experienced instructor to sign off on.