Preface 1 Crisis in Mathematics: Fourier's Series 1.1 Background to the Problem 1.2 Difficulties with the Solution 2 Infinite Summations 2.1 The Archimedean Understanding 2.2 Geometric Series 2.3 Calculating π 2.4 Logarithms and the Harmonic Series 2.5 Taylor Series 2.6 Emerging Doubts 3 Differentiability and Continuity 3.1 Differentiability 3.2 Cauchy and the Mean Value Theorems 3.3 Continuity 3.4 Consequences of Continuity 3.5 Consequences of the Mean Value Theorem 4 The Convergence of Infinite Series 4.1 The Basic Tests of Convergence 4.2 Comparison Tests 4.3 The Convergence of Power Series 4.4 The Convergence of Fourier Series 5 Understanding Infinite Series 5.1 Groupings and Rearrangements 5.2 Cauchy and Continuity 5.3 Differentiation and Integration 5.4 Verifying Uniform Convergence 6 Return to Fourier Series 6.1 Dirichlet's Theorem 6.2 The Cauchy Integral 6.3 The Riemann Integral 6.4 Continuity without Differentiability 7 Epilogue A Explorations of the Infinite A.1 Wallis on π A.2 Bernoulli's Numbers A.3 Sums of Negative Powers A.4 The Size of n! B Bibliography C Hints to Selected Exercises Index