Math 316

Foundations of Analysis

General Information Schedule Homework

Schedule

The following is a sketch of the topics covered in each class.

Class Number Date Sections in Abbott Brief Description
1 Friday, 8/31 1.1 Introduction, Historical Context, What are the Real Numbers?
2 Monday, 9/3 1.1 - 1.2 Finding "Holes" in the Real Numbers, Ordered Fields
3 Wednesday, 9/5 1.3 The Completeness Axiom, Supremums and Infimums
4 Friday, 9/7 1.4 Archimedean Property, Density of Q in R, Existence of Square Roots
5 Monday, 9/10 1.4 - 1.5 Nested Interval Theorem, Countable Sets
6 Wednesday, 9/12 1.5 Countable and Uncountable Sets
7 Friday, 9/14 - The Absolute Value Function, The Triangle Inequality, Introduction to Sequences
8 Monday, 9/17 2.2 Convergence of Sequences, Uniqueness of Limits
9 Wednesday, 9/19 2.3 Algebraic Properties of Limits
10 Friday, 9/21 2.3 - 2.4 Order Properties of Limits, Monotone Convergence Theorem
11 Monday, 9/24 - Infinite Limits
12 Wednesday, 9/26 2.5 Subsequences, Bolzano-Weierstrass
13 Friday, 9/28 2.6 Cauchy Sequences
14 Monday, 10/1 2.7 Infinite Series
15 Wednesday, 10/3 2.7 Series Convergence Tests
16 Friday, 10/5 2.7 Absolute Convergence, Rearrangements
17 Monday, 10/8 - First Exam
18 Wednesday, 10/10 3.1 - 3.2 Interior Points, Closure Points, Limit Points
19 Friday, 10/12 3.2 Open and Closed Subsets of R
20 Monday, 10/15 3.1, 3.3 The Cantor Set, Compact Sets
21 Wednesday, 10/17 3.3 Compact Sets, Heine-Borel
22 Friday, 10/19 4.1 - 4.2 Equivalents of Compactness, Functions and Limits
- - - Fall Break
23 Monday, 10/29 4.2 Limits of Functions
24 Wednesday, 10/31 4.3 Continuity
25 Friday, 11/2 4.4 Extreme Value Theorem, Uniform Continuity
26 Monday, 11/5 4.4 - 4.5 Uniform Continuity on Compact Sets, Intermediate Value Theorem
27 Wednesday, 11/7 5.2 Differentiability
28 Friday, 11/9 5.3 Mean Value Theorem and Consequences
29 Monday, 11/12 7.1 - 7.2 The Riemann Integral
30 Wednesday, 11/14 7.2 Riemann Integrable Functions
31 Friday, 11/16 7.3 - 7.4 Riemann Integrable Functions, Properties of the Integral
32 Monday, 11/19 - Second Exam
33 Wednesday, 11/21 7.5 The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
- - - Thanksgiving Break
34 Monday, 11/26 6.1 - 6.2 Sequences of Functions, Pointwise Convergence
35 Wednesday, 11/28 6.2 Uniform Convergence
36 Friday, 11/30 6.2, 7.4 Properties of Uniform Convergence
37 Monday, 12/3 6.3 - 6.4 Properties of Uniform Convergnece, Series of Functions
38 Wednesday, 12/5 6.4 - 6.5 Weierstrass M-Test, Power Series
39 Friday, 12/7 6.5- 6.6 Power Series, Taylor Series
40 Monday, 12/10 6.6 Taylor Series, Lagrange Remainder Theorem
41 Wednesday, 12/12 6.6 Functions and Taylor Series, The Complex Numbers
42 Friday, 12/14 - Complex Numbers and Power Series