Math 3000.001 Information

Spring 2013


Office Hours for the remainder of the semester:

Friday May 3

1:00 - 2:00

Monday May 6

9:00 - 10:00

Tuesday May 7

9:30 - 11:00

Wednesday May 8

9:00 - 10:00

Thursday May 9

9:30 - 11:00

Syllabus

Copy of Exam 3


Homework and Reading Assignments: Homework is to be turned at the beginning of class on the days indicted below. Soon after class each day the homework assignments will be posted here. You should do all the homework listed, but turn in only the problems listed in bold face type. The reading assignments are to be completed by the beginning of class on the days indicated. The class discussion will focus on the reading assignment. The schedule below is subject to change.

o    January 14
Introduction to Real Analysis

o    Janaury 16
Read Section 13 through the middle of page 131
Read Section 2

o    January 18
Read the rest of Section 13

o    January 23
Read Section 1
Page 134 13.1 a, b, c, d, e, f, g, 13.2 a, b, 13.3 a, b (Turn in all of these.)

o    January 25
Read Section 5

o    January 28
Continue with Section 5

o    January 30
Negating statements with quantifiers

o    February 1
Page 8
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.7, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11
Page 15 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.8
Page 47 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5,
5.8, 5.15, 5.16

o    February 4
Review Section 13

o    February 6
Continue Section 13

o    February 8
Continue Section 13
Page 135 13.5 a, b, d, e, f, 13.8, 13.11 (Hint: think of a set difference as an intersection.), 13.21 a
Page 49 5.19, 5.25

o    February 11
Read the remainder of Section 13

o    February 13
Review for Exam 1

o    February 15
Review for Exam 1
Work on the proofs of the lemma I stated in class, Part 2) of the theorem I stated in class, and problems 13.20 b,c,d, 13.22 a,b,c, and 13.23 a,b,c

o    February 18
Exam 1
Page 136 13.12, 13.13, 13.20a

o    February 20
Continue Section 13

o    February 22
Continue Section 13
Read Section 11

o    February 25
Read Section 14 through Lemma 14.4 and read the statement of the Heine-Borel Theorem
Read Section 12

o    February 27
Continue Section 12
Turn in the “Fill in the Reasons” handout and Page 115 11.3 h,i

o    March 1
Continue Section 12

o    March 4
Read Section 14
Page 126 12.1, 12.2, 12.3 a,c,d,f,i, 12.4 a,c,d,f,I
Page 135 13.3 c,d 13.4 c,d

o    March 6
Continue Section 14

o    March 8
Continue Section 14
Page 126 12.6, 12.8, 12.9, 12.13
Page 136 13.19

o    March 18
Continue Section 14

o    March 20
Read Section 6 through the middle of page 53
Read Section 7

o    March 22
Continue Section 7
Page 143 14.1, 14.2, 14.4, 14.5
Page 73 7.1, 7.2 a,b,c,d, 7.3, 7.4, 7.7

o    March 25
Review for Exam 2

o    March 27
Review for Exam 2

o    March 29
Exam 2

o    April 1
Continue Section 7

o    April 3
Definition of continuous functions

o    April 5
Continue discussion of continuous functions

o    April 8
Proof of Intermediate Value Theorem

o    April 10
Proof that continuous functions with domain [a,b] attain a maximum

o    April 12
Consequences of the two theorems

o    April 15
Read Section 10 – Induction

Homework on continuous functions due today.

o    April 17
Continue induction proofs

o    April 19
More Induction

o    April 22
Still more induction
Homework 2 on continuous functions due today

o    April 24
Cardinality
Read Section 8

o    April 26
Review for Exam 3

o    April 29
Exam 3
Page 104  10.3, 10.4, 10,6, 10.8, 10.10,10.13, and use induction to prove that the union of any finite number of closed sets is closed (You may assume that the union of two closed sets is closed since we proved this before.)

o    May 1
Review for Final

o    May 6
Final exam (10:30 in classroom)


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