Simone Secchi obtained a Ph.D. in Functional Analysis from SISSA, Trieste under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Ambrosetti. He is currently Associate Professor of Mathematical Analysis at Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca. His research interests are partial differential equations, critical point theory, and topological and variational methods for PDEs.

Part I First half of the journey.- 1 An appetizer of propositional logic.- 2 Sets, relations, functions in a naïve way.- 3 Numbers.- 4 Elementary cardinality.- 5 Distance, topology and sequences on the set of real numbers.- 6 Series.- 7 Limits: from sequences to functions of a real variable.- 8 Continuous functions of a real variable.- 9 Derivatives and differentiability- 10 Riemann's integral.- 11 Elementary functions.- Part II Second half of the journey.- 12 Return to Set Theory.- 13 Neighbors again: topological spaces.- 14 Differentiating again: linearization in normed spaces.- 15 A functional approach to Lebesgue integration theory.- 16 Measures before integrals.