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Spring Semester 2019

Analysis II

Syllabus

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Summary:
This course is the second semester of a rigorous, proof-based course in Analysis. Topics include sequences and series of functions, curves in Rn, some basic topology, differentiation in Rn, the implicit and inverse function theorems, and an introduction to the Riemann integral in Rn.

Contact Information:
Instructor:Marcel Oliver
Email:m.oliver@jacobs-university.de
Phone:200-3212
Office hours:  Mo 11:30, We 10:00 in Research I, 107

Time and Place:
Lectures:  Mo 9:45 and Tu 14:15 in East Hall 4
Tutorial:  Th 19:30 in East Hall 4

Recommended Textbook:
W. Rudin, Principles of Mathematical Analysis, third edition

Additional Reading:
T. Tao, Analysis II, third edition

Grading:
The final grade will be computed as a grade point average with the following weights:

Homework:20%
Midterm Exam:  30%
Final Exam:50%


Class Schedule (subject to change!)

04/02/2019: Applications of the integral I: Taylor's formula; indefinite integrals; Uniform convergence revisited: exchange of integration and differentiation (see, e.g., this handout, Theorem 5.5)
05/02/2019: Applications of the integral II: Laplace's method and Stirling's formula (see O.A. Ivanov, Easy as pi? An introduction to higher mathematics, Springer, 1999, Section 2.5)
11/02/2019: Laplace's method (finish); Uniform convergence of series, Cauchy's criterion (Rudin, 7.7-7.10); uniform limits of continuous functions are continuous (Rudin, 7.11-7.12)
12/02/2019: Point-set topology in metric spaces I: open and closed sets (Rudin, 2.15-2.24)
18/02/2019: Point-set topology in metric spaces II: compact sets (Rudin, 2.31-2.40)
19/02/2019: Point-set topology in metric spaces II: more about compactness (Rudin, 2.41, 4.16 with alternative proof); continuous pre-images of open sets are open (Rudin, 4.8)
25/02/2019: Monotonically convergent sequences of functions on a compact set are uniformly convergent (Rudin, 7.13); convergence, integration, and differentiation revisited.
26/02/2019: Equicontinuity and the Arzela-Ascoli theorem
04/03/2019: Stone-Weierstrass theorem
05/03/2019: Power series, radius of convergence
11/03/2019: Curves in Rn
12/03/2019: Midterm Review
18/03/2019: Midterm Exam
19/03/2019: Linear transformations, norm of a linear transformation, invertibility
25/03/2019: Total derivative
26/03/2019: Directional derivative, partial derivatives
01/04/2019: Chain rule
02/04/2019: Taylor's formula in Rn
08/04/2019: Contraction mapping theorem
09/04/2019: Inverse function theorem
23/04/2019: Implicit function theorem I
29/04/2019: Implicit function theorem II
30/04/2019: Riemann integral in Rn I: definition and elementary properties
06/05/2019: Riemann integral in Rn II: iterated integrals and Fubini's theorem
07/05/2019: Riemann integral in Rn III: change of variables and polar coordinates
13/05/2019: Riemann integral in Rn IV: the divergence theorem with elementary applications
14/05/2019: Review for final exam
TBA: Final Exam




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