The second edition preserves the book’s clear and concise style, illuminating discussions, and simple, well-motivated proofs. New topics include material on the irrationality of pi, the Baire category theorem, Newton's method and the secant method, and continuous nowhere-differentiable functions.
Kenneth A. Ross is currently an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon.
Jorge M. López is currently professor of mathematics at the University of Puerto Rico.