Real Analysis, Math 63
Last updated December 1, 2003


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Text-book: Real Analysis with Real Applications, Kenneth R. Davidson & Allan P. Donsig, publisher Prentice Hall, 2002.


Lectures Sections in Text Brief Description
Day 1:  9/24 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.5 Notation; Background material; Why proofs?
Day 2:  9/26 2.2 Real numbers as infinite decimals
Day 3:  9/29 2.3, 2.4 Limits; Basic properties
Day 4:  10/1 2.5 Least upper bound property of R
Day 5:  10/3 2.6, 2.7 Subsequences; Cauchy sequences
Day 6:  10/6 2.7 More about sequences, their subsequences, lim inf and lim sup
Day 7:  10/8 --- First midterm exam
Day 8:  10/10 4.1, 4.2 R^n as normed vector space and metric space
Day 9:  10/13 4.3 Topology of R^n
Day 10:  10/15 4.3, 4.4 Topology of R^n; Compact subsets and the Heine-Borel theorem
Day 11:  10/17 3.1, 3.2 Series; Convergence tests for series
Day 12:  10/20 3.2, 3.4 Alternating series; Absolute and conditional convergence
Day 13:  10/22 3.4 Rearrangement of series
Day 14:  10/24 2.8 Cardinality
Day 15:  10/27 3.3, 4.4 The number e; The Cantor set
Day 16:  10/29 5.1, 9.1 Limits of functions; Continuous functions on metric spaces
10/29 --- Second midterm exam (in the evening)
Day 17:  10/31 5.3 Properties of continuous functions
Day 18:  11/3 5.3 Properties of continuous functions
Day 19:  11/5 5.4, 5.5 Compactness and extreme values; Uniform continuity
Day 20:  11/7 5.6, 5.2 Intermediate Value Theorem; Discontinuous functions
Day 21:  11/10 5.2, 5.7 Discontinuous functions; Monotone functions
Day 22:  11/12 --- Third midterm exam
Day 23:  11/14 6.1 Differentiable functions
Day 24:  11/17 6.2 Mean Value Theorem
Day 25:  11/19 6.3 Riemann integral
Day 26:  11/20 6.3 Riemann integral
Day 27:  11/21 6.3, 6.4 Riemann integral; Fundamental theorem of calculus
Day 28:  11/24 6.6 Measure zero and Lebesgue's theorem
Day 29:  12/1 8.1, 8.2, 8.4 Limits of functions; Pointwise and uniform convergence; Series of functions
Day 30:  12/3 --- Review of Chapter 6