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Early Transcendental Analysis

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Abstract

In Early Transcendentals (The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 104, No 7) Steven Weintraub presents a rigorous justifcation of the "early transcendental" calculus textbook approach to the exponential and logarithmic functions. However, he uses tools such as term-by-term differentiation of infinite series. We present a rigorous treatment of the early transcendental approach suitable for a first course in analysis, using mainly the supremum property of the real numbers.

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@article{arxiv.1506.03697,
  title  = {Early Transcendental Analysis},
  author = {Simon Cowell and Philippe Poulin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.03697},
  year   = {2015}
}
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