Download or read book Foundations of Analysis written by Edmund Landau and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does 2 x 2 = 4? What are fractions? Imaginary numbers? Why do the laws of algebra hold? What are the properties of the numbers on which the differential and integral calculus is based? In other words, What are numbers? And why do they have the properties we attribute to them? This work answers such questions.--