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Much of what we do in real analysis centers on issues of convergence or approximation. What does it mean for one object to be close to (or to approximate) another object? How can we define the limit of a sequence of objects that appear to be converging in some sense?
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Heil, C. (2018). Metric Spaces. In: Metrics, Norms, Inner Products, and Operator Theory. Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65322-8_2
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