![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Krantz claims it’s one of the books that made him a mathematician “It was easy to say, and often true, that anyone who could survive a year of Rudin was a real mathematician.” Vladimir Arnold, one of the champions of the “organic” approach to mathematics, reportedly called the book (in comparison to the lectures of Vladimir Zorich) “Bourbakian propaganda, stripping and sterilizing analysis of any soul or meaning beyond the symbols.”Īt MIT, the book has been practically canonized: I was once visited by some of my friends taking math in Cambridge and I was angrily dismissed as an ignorant dabbler for even suggesting any other text for undergraduate real analysis even existed. It's hard to know where to start with “baby Rudin.” There is probably no more well known, respected, loved, hated, and feared text in all of mathematical academia. ![]()
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