Math 317 - Measure Theory - Schedule

Class Date Sections Brief Description
1 Thursday, 8/24 - Introduction, Overview, Analysis Review, Metric Spaces
2 Tuesday, 8/29 Notes: 1.1 - 1.3 Metric Spaces, Interior and Closure Points, Open and Closed Sets
3 Thursday, 8/31 Notes: 1.4 - 1.5 Compact Sets, Images and Preimages
4 Tuesday, 9/5 Notes: 1.5
Nelson: 0.1 - 0.3
Continuous Functions Between Metric Spaces, Review of the Riemann Integral
5 Thursday, 9/7 Nelson: 1.1
SteinShak: 1.1 - 1.2
Lebesgue Outer Measure, Basic Properties
6 Tuesday, 9/12 Nelson: 1.1 - 1.2
SteinShak: 1.2
Outer Measure of Intervals, Additivity on Disjoint Compact Sets
7 Thursday, 9/14 Nelson: 1.2
SteinShak: 1.3
Measurable Sets
8 Tuesday, 9/19 Nelson: 1.2 - 1.3
SteinShak: 1.3
Properties of Measurable Sets, Sigma Algebras
9 Thursday, 9/21 Nelson: 1.3
SteinShak: 1.3
Nonmeasurable Sets, Baire Category Theorem
10 Tuesday, 9/26 Nelson: 2.1
SteinShak: 1.4
Riemann Integration and Points of Continuity, Measurable Functions
11 Thursday, 9/28 Nelson: 2.1
SteinShak: 1.4
Borel Sets, Measurable Functions, Simple Functions
12 Tuesday, 10/3 Nelson: 2.2 The Lebesgue Integral of a Bounded Function on an Interval
13 Thursday, 10/5 Nelson: 2.2 Integrability and Measurability, Bounded Convergence Theorem
14 Tuesday, 10/10 Nelson: 2.3 The Lebesgue Integral of a Nonnegative Function, Fatou's Lemma
15 Thursday, 10/12 Nelson: 2.3 - 2.4 Monotone Convergence Theorem, Lebesgue Dominated Convergence Theorem
- - - Fall Break
16 Tuesday, 10/24 Nelson: 4.1, 4.4
SteinShak: 6.1
Measure Spaces, Outer Measures
17 Thursday, 10/26 Nelson: 4.4
SteinShak: 6.1, 7.1
Measures from Outer Measures, Hausdorff Measures
18 Tuesday, 10/31 Nelson: 4.2 - 4.3
SteinShak: 6.2
Integration on a General Measure Space
19 Thursday, 11/2 Nelson: 3.1
SteinShak: 2.2
The Space L^1[a,b]
20 Tuesday, 11/7 Nelson: 3.1
SteinShak: 2.2
Completeness of L^1[a,b]
21 Thursday, 11/9 Nelson: 3.4
SteinShak: 4.2
Inner Products, Orthogonality, Projections
22 Tuesday, 11/14 Nelson: 3.4
SteinShak: 4.2
Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality, Hilbert Spaces
23 Thursday, 11/16 SteinShak: 4.2, 4.4 Projections in Hilbert Spaces, Bases, Fourier Series
24 Tuesday, 11/21 - Group Project Time
- - - Thanksgiving Break
25 Tuesday, 11/28 - Measure-Preserving Transformations, Poincare Recurrence
26 Thursday, 11/30 - Ergodic Transformations, Birkhoff Ergodic Theorem
27 Tuesday, 12/5 - Project Presentations
28 Thursday, 12/7 - Project Presentations