Math 5615H: Class Outlines, Fall 2014

o 12/16/14: Final exam: 8:00-10:00 a.m. (Section 001) and 1:30-3:30 p.m. (Section 003) in your regular classroom. [Text: Chapters 1-5]

o 12/10/14: Last class meeting: discussion of the sample final exam. [Text: Chapters 1-5]

o 12/8/14: Discussion of the actual second midterm. [Text: Chapters 3-5]

o 12/5/14: Midterm Exam II. [Text: Chapters 3-5]

o 12/3/14: Discussion of Sample Exam II. Student course evaluations. [Text: Chapters 3-5]

o 12/1/14: Homework is due at the beginning of the Monday class. Discussion of homework. [Text: Chapter 5: pages 109-113]

o 11/28/14: Thanksgiving Break: university closed. Happy holiday!

o 11/26/14: Differentiation of vector-valued functions. [Text: Chapter 5: pages 111-113]

o 11/24/14: L'Hôpital's rule. Derivatives of higher orders. Taylor's theorem. [Text: Chapter 5: pages 109-111]

o 11/21/14: Homework is due at the beginning of the class. Discussion of homework. [Text: Chapter 5: pages 103-109]

o 11/19/14: The derivative: examples. The mean value theorem. The continuity of derivatives. [Text: Chapter 5: pages 106-109]

o 11/17/14: The derivative: definition and main theorems. [Text: Chapter 5: pages 103-105]

o 11/14/14: Homework is due at the beginning of the class. Discussion of homework. [Text: Chapter 4: pages 89-98]

o 11/12/14: Continuity and connectedness. Discontinuities. Monotonic functions. Limits with the extended real number system. [Text: Chapter 4: pages 93-98]

o 11/10/14: Continuity vs. compactness. [Text: Chapter 4: pages 89-93]

o 11/07/14: Homework is due at the beginning of the class. Discussion of homework. [Text: Chapters 3-4: pages 75-89]

o 11/05/14: Limits of functions, continuity. [Text: Chapter 4: pages 83-89]

o 11/03/14: Series, continued: rearrangements. [Text: Chapter 3: pages 75-78]

o 10/31/14: Homework is due at the beginning of the class. Discussion of homework. [Text: Chapter 3: pages 65-75]

o 10/29/14: Series, continued: power series, summation by parts, addition and multiplication of series. [Text: Chapter 3: pages 69-75]

o 10/27/14: Series, continued: absolute convergence, the root and ratio tests. [Text: Chapter 3: pages 65-69, 71-72]

o 10/24/14: Homework is due at the beginning of the class. Discussion of homework. [Text: Chapter 3: pages 55-65]

o 10/22/14: Some special sequences. Series. Series of nonnegative terms. The number e. [Text: Chapter 3: pages 57-65]

o 10/20/14: Sequences of real numbers: monotonic, upper and lower limits. [Text: Chapter 3: pages 55-57]

o 10/17/14: Homework is due at the beginning of the class. Discussion of homework. [Text: Chapter 3: pages 47-55]

o 10/15/14: Subsequences, Cauchy sequences. [Text: Chapter 3: pages 51-55]

o 10/13/14: Limits of sequences in metric spaces. [Text: Chapter 3: pages 47-51]

o 10/10/14: Midterm Exam I. [Text: Chapters 1-2]

o 10/8/14: Nested intervals and rectangular solids (cells). The Heine-Borel and Weierstrass theorems. Discussion of Sample Exam I. [Text: Chapters 1-2]

o 10/6/14: Compactness is an absolute notion. Nested compact sets. [Text: Chapter 2: pages 37-38]

o 10/3/14: Homework is due at the beginning of the class. Discussion of homework. [Text: Chapter 2: pages 35-43]

o 10/1/14: Compactness: continued. The Heine-Borel theorem. The Cantor set. Connectedness. [Text: Chapter 2: pages 37-43]

o 9/29/14: Some remarks on the closure and the interior. Compactness: beginning. [Text: Chapter 2: pages 35-37]

o 9/26/14: Homework is due at the beginning of the class. Discussion of homework. [Text: Chapter 2: pages 24-35]

o 9/24/14: Metric spaces (continued). Closed sets. Limit (accumulation) points, isolated points. Boundary. [Text: Chapter 2: pages 33-35]

o 9/22/14: Metric spaces: introduction. Definition of a metric space. Examples. Open balls. Open sets. Neighborhoods. [Text: Chapter 2: pages 30-32]

o 9/19/14: Homework is due at the beginning of the class. Discussion of homework. Countability (finished): power sets, the hierarchy of cardinals, the cardinality of the reals, the Continuum Hypothesis. [Text: Chapters 1-2: pages 11-28, 29-30]

o 9/17/14: Countability (continued): the countability of the rationals and the uncountability of the reals. [Text: Chapter 2: pages 26-28]

o 9/15/14: Euclidean spaces. Countability: basic notions. [Text: Chapter 1: pages 16-17, Chapter 2: pages 24-25]

o 9/12/14: Homework is due at the beginning of the class. Discussion of homework. [Text: Chapter 1, pages 1-11, the Appendix to Chapter 1]

o 9/10/14: The extended real number system and the complex field. [Text: Chapter 1, pages 11-16]

o 9/8/14: The real field. [Text: Chapter 1, pages 8-11, skim the Appendix to Chapter 1]

o 9/5/14: Fields and ordered fields. [Text: Chapter 1, pages 5-8]

o 9/3/14: Introduction. The sum of all naturals. Ordered sets. The least upper bound property. [Syllabus. Text: Chapter 1 through page 5]


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