Real Analysis, Lecture 1: Constructing the Rational Numbers

Why HN readers recommended it

HN people recommend Su's lectures for building real analysis intuition, citing his phenomenal teaching style.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

HarveyMuddCollegeEDU

Topic

real analysis

Format

lecture

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• I highly recommend Francis Su's Real Analysis Youtube lectures, on Youtube [1]. He is an amazing teacher. I first started trying to learn Real Analysis from Baby Rudin, but I couldn't understand the point behind the ideas introduced there. Then I started watching these lectures, …

• One of my favorite video series on YouTube is Francis Su's _Real Analysis_. [VIDEO] He walks through the basics of constructing the real numbers, defines metric spaces and proves some topological properties, defines continuous functions, and goes into differentiable functions. The video quality isn't great …

• I've watched a series of lectures on the subject by Harvey Mudd college, on youtube [1]. It helped me a lot, tho, I'd have to say these are introductory level, not really a deep dive, but more useful as an introduction. [1] [VIDEO]