is hard for a calculus book, i.e. is an introductory real analysis book. If you can master analysis at the level of baby Rudin without doing hundreds of problems, you're very talented. If you still don't need to do hundreds of problems by the time you finish papa Rudin, you're a mathematical genius.
Yes but I was talking about calculus as an anecdotal example. Not analysis.
> baby Rudin
This is definitely starting to look like "no true Scotsman". Anyway I did the regular amount (5-10) per section and got an A.
> you're very talented.
Trust me not the case. Just average person doing average number of pset problems.
> papa Rudin
I didn't read this, I went on to read Schilling's Measures, Integrals, and Martingales instead because I already knew enough functional analysis and wasn't interested in complex analysis.