What is the point of studying real analysis?

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What is the point of studying real analysis? I find it not to be very useful...
 

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dav1d said:
What is the point of studying real analysis? I find it not to be very useful...

What's the point of studying anything? We're all going to die anyway.
 
How would anyone know if our mathematical theorems are sound for broad application if no one studied them with the rigor of mathematical analysis?
 
To understand where calculus comes from and why it results hold true.
 

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