Michael J. Hoffman

This is the story of a bipolar, biracial Ivy League graduate who manages his mental health by helping others improve theirs. This tragic/comic tale shows how sharing insights with other people in a confidential and judgment-free forum is a necessary complement to psychotherapy and other treatments.

Designed for courses in advanced calculus and introductory real analysis, the second edition of Elementary Classical Analysis strikes a careful and thoughtful balance between pure and applied mathematics, with the emphasis on techniques important to classical analysis, without vector calculus or complex analysis. As such, it’s a perfect teaching and learning resource for mathematics undergraduate courses in classical analysis. The book includes detailed coverage of the foundations of the real number system and focuses primarily on analysis in Euclidean space with a view towards application. As well as being suitable for students taking pure mathematics, it can also be used by students taking engineering and physical science courses. There’s now even more material on variable calculus, expanding the textbook’s already considerable coverage of the subject.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.