18.S190 | January IAP 2023 | Undergraduate

Introduction to Metric Spaces

Lecture 1: Motivation, Intuition, and Examples

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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