Real Analysis

Real Analysis
Author: N. L. Carothers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2000-08-15
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1139643169

This is a course in real analysis directed at advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in mathematics and related fields. Presupposing only a modest background in real analysis or advanced calculus, the book offers something to specialists and non-specialists. The course consists of three major topics: metric and normed linear spaces, function spaces, and Lebesgue measure and integration on the line. In an informal style, the author gives motivation and overview of new ideas, while supplying full details and proofs. He includes historical commentary, recommends articles for specialists and non-specialists, and provides exercises and suggestions for further study. This text for a first graduate course in real analysis was written to accommodate the heterogeneous audiences found at the masters level: students interested in pure and applied mathematics, statistics, education, engineering, and economics.

The Trisectors

The Trisectors
Author: Underwood Dudley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1994
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780883855140

It is impossible to trisect angles with straightedge and compass alone. This book is about the many people who try and think they have succeeded.

African Americans in Science, Math, and Invention

African Americans in Science, Math, and Invention
Author: Ray Spangenburg
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1438107749

The astronauts, physicists, chemists, biologists, agriculture specialists, and others who have dedicated their lives to improving humankind's knowledge and understanding of the universe through science, math, and invention are.

Indices, Index Funds And ETFs

Indices, Index Funds And ETFs
Author: Michael I. C. Nwogugu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 710
Release: 2019-03-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113744701X

Indices, index funds and ETFs are grossly inaccurate and inefficient and affect more than €120 trillion worth of securities, debts and commodities worldwide. This book analyzes the mathematical/statistical biases, misrepresentations, recursiveness, nonlinear risk and homomorphisms inherent in equity, debt, risk-adjusted, options-based, CDS and commodity indices – and by extension, associated index funds and ETFs. The book characterizes the “Popular-Index Ecosystems,” a phenomenon that provides artificial price-support for financial instruments, and can cause systemic risk, financial instability, earnings management and inflation. The book explains why indices and strategic alliances invalidate Third-Generation Prospect Theory (PT3), related approaches and most theories of Intertemporal Asset Pricing. This book introduces three new decision models, and some new types of indices that are more efficient than existing stock/bond indices. The book explains why the Mean-Variance framework, the Put-Call Parity theorem, ICAPM/CAPM, the Sharpe Ratio, Treynor Ratio, Jensen’s Alpha, the Information Ratio, and DEA-Based Performance Measures are wrong. Leveraged/inverse ETFs and synthetic ETFs are misleading and inaccurate and non-legislative methods that reduce index arbitrage and ETF arbitrage are introduced.