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TO the ordinary mathematical student, geometrical illustrations in a text-book on analysis are a relief and an inspiration; to the purists the use of figures is a weakness. They demand that the theory shall be based on arithmetical considerations alone. Mr. Verblunsky's treatise completely satisfies this demand. For the student of analysis who is already acquainted with the subject, a careful reading of this book should be a useful discipline in careful and logical statement. For the usual type of honours student a course of this kind would, we fear, be disastrous.
An Introduction to the Theory of Functions of a Real Variable
By S. Verblunsky. Pp. xi + 170. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1939.) 12s. 6d. net.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 145, 296 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145296b0
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