Math 641 Real Analysis

Fall 2019, UAF

Ed Bueler
 elbueler@alaska.edu

Office: Chapman 306C (hours)

Class times and room:
 MWF 1--2 pm
 problem session: M 3:30--4:30 pm
 Chapman 206

CRN:  75688

Syllabus

Required text:
N. L. Carothers, Real Analysis, Cambridge University Press 2000 (ISBN-13: 978-0521497565)


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Schedule: (version 4 December 2019; final)

Day Week/
Chapter
Topic Assigned/
Due
M 8/26 1
Chapter 1
what do we know about the real numbers? Assignment #1
W 8/28 what do we know about calculus?
F 8/30 Chapter 3 metric spaces and normed vector spaces
M 9/2 2 no class: Labor Day
W 9/4 Early Quiz (30 min)
vector spaces
A #1 due
Assignment #2
F 9/6 lp space
M 9/9 3 inequalities in normed vector spaces: Cauchy-Schwarz, Young's
W 9/11 inequalities cont.: Holder's, Minkowski's A #2 due
Assignment #3
F 9/13 Chapter 4 convergence in metric spaces
open and closed sets
M 9/16 4 cont.
W 9/18 Chapter 5 continuity A #3 due
Assignment #4
F 9/20 cont.
M 9/23 5
Chapter 7
complete metric spaces
W 9/25 proofs of completeness A #4 due
Assignment #5
F 9/27 Banach fixed-point theorem
M 9/30 6 applications: ODEs, IFSs, Newton iteration
W 10/2 cont. A #5 due
F 10/4 Chapter 8 totally-bounded sets Assignment #6
M 10/7 7 compactness
W 10/9 cont.
review guide for Midterm I
A #6 due
F 10/11 Midterm Exam I Midterm I
M 10/14 chaos
equivalent metrics
Assignment #7
W 10/16 8
Chapter 10
sequences of functions
F 10/18 uniform continuity/convergence
M 10/21 9 a nowhere differentiable function
   weierstrauss.m
W 10/23 Chapter 11 Weierstrauss theorem
(polynomial approximation in C[a,b])
   bernstein.m
A #7 due
Assignment #8
F 10/25 overview of integration
M 10/28 10
Chapter 16
Lebesgue outer measure m*
W 10/30 measure zero sets
Cantor set
A #8 due
Assignment #9
F 11/1 m*(I)=length(I)
M 11/4 11 m* is countably subadditive
measurable sets
Lebesgue measure
W 11/6 m is countably additive
measurable sets form a sigma-algebra
A #9 due
Assignment #10
F 11/8 nonmeasurable sets
characterization of Riemann integrability
M 11/11 12
Chapter 17
measurable functions
W 11/13 simple functions
extended real values
A #10 due
Assignment #11
F 11/15 basic construction
Borel's theorem
M 11/18 13
Chapter 18
Lebesgue integral (simple; nonnegative measurable; integrable)
review guide for Midterm II
W 11/20 monotone convergence theorem A #11 due
F 11/22 Midterm Exam II Midterm II
M 11/25 14 Fatou's lemma
dominated convergence theorem
Assignment #12
W 11/27 no class: Thanksgiving
F 11/29 no class: Thanksgiving
M 12/2 15 L1 is complete
review guide for Final Exam
W 12/4 Chapter 19 approximation in L1
Lp spaces
F 12/6 Fourier series
a bit of review
A #12 due
F 12/13 Final Exam
1:00 pm -- 3:00 pm
Final Exam