MA 221: Analysis I - Real Analysis
Credits: 3:0
Prerequisite courses for Undergraduates: UM 204
Construction of the field of real numbers and the least upper-bound property. Review of sets, countable & uncountable sets. Metric Spaces: topological properties, the topology of Euclidean space. Sequences and series. Continuity: definition and basic theorems, uniform continuity, the Intermediate Value Theorem. Differentiability on the real line: definition, the Mean Value Theorem. The Riemann-Stieltjes integral: definition and examples, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Sequences and series of functions, uniform convergence, the Weierstrass Approximation Theorem. Differentiability in higher dimensions: motivations, the total derivative, and basic theorems. Partial derivatives, characterization of continuously-differentiable functions. The Inverse and Implicit Function Theorems. Higher-order derivatives.
Suggested books and references:
- Rudin, W., Principles of Mathematical Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1986.
- Apostol, T. M., Mathematical Analysis, Narosa, 1987.