Existence of limits and completeness of the real numbers system
- Monotonicity and its implications.
- Nested intervals and their common point
- Boundedness as another property stable by finite alterations
- Converging subsequense of a bounded sequence
- But why we are so sure that there are no gaps on the real line? And what is a real line?
Construction of the number system: from natural numbers toward scary numbers
- Completion by algebraic operations: from
to
via
. Everything you need to solve linear equations
- Problems with quadratic equations: irrationalities and negative discriminants. An idea of algebraic number.
- Problems with transition to limit: the ubiquitous
and much, much more
- Infinite decimal fractions: completion by “adding limits of monotone sequences”.
- Operations with real numbers: ordered field. Completeness “axiom”.
