Text Book: James Kirkwood, Introduction to Real
Analysis
Office Hours: MW 1600-1700
The course will have two midterms and a final. Homework will be
assigned on a weekly basis and corrected. The final grade will be
computed as follows
Exam 1: 25
Exam 2:
25
Final:
40
HW: 10
90
or more will guarantee you an A, 80 will guarantee a B, 70 a C
etc.
There will be no +/- in the final grade.
Students will read through the material in the book before it is covered in class and come armed with questions. The class time is mainly devoted to clear up the confusion the book creates.
This is the real subject of the class. You will become particularly familiar with the Greek letter epsilon. The single Student Learning Outcome for this class is to become proficient in reading and writing proofs in analysis.
The real numbers as a complete ordered field.
The topology of the real numbers.
Sequences of real numbers and their limits.
Continuous functions.
Differentiability
The Riemann Integral
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