Lecture 1: Motivation, Intuition, and Examples

MIT 18.S190 Introduction To Metric Spaces, IAP 2023
Instructor: Paige Bright

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Introduction to the theory of metric spaces—the tool used to generalize the theory of real analysis from the real numbers to more abstract settings. Includes many classic examples of metric spaces and key terminology.

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