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The textbook for this course is Introduction to Real Analysis by Bartle and Sherbert

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Topics List

Date Sections Topics Prerequisite Skills Student Learning Outcomes
Week 1

1.1

Basic Terminology

  • Subsets
  • The definition of equality between two sets
  • Commonly used sets


Week 1

1.1


Set Operations

  • Union, intersection and complements of sets
  • De Morgans Laws for sets
  • Infinite Unions and intersections of sets
Week 1

1.1

Functions (The Cartesian product definition)

  • The Cartesian Product
  • Definition of a function
  • Domain and Range in terms of the Cartesian product
  • Transformations and Machines


Week 1/2

1.1

Direct and Inverse Images

  • Definition of the Direct Image
  • Definition of the Inverse Image
Week 1/2

1.1


Injective and Surjective Functions

  • Injective functions
  • Surjective functions
  • Bijective functions
Week 1/2

1.1


Inverse Functions

  • Definition of Inverse functions
  • Criteria for an Inverse of a function to exist
Week 1/2

1.1

Composition of Functions

  • Definition of a composition function
  • When function composition is defined
Week 1/2

1.1


Restrictions on Functions

  • Define the restriction of a function
  • Positive Square Root function
Week 2

1.2

Mathematical Induction

  • Well-ordering principal
  • Principal of Mathematical induction
  • The principal of Strong Induction
Week 2

1.3


Finite and Infinite Sets

  • Definition of finite and infinite sets
  • Uniqueness Theorem
  • If T is a subset of S and T is infinite, then S is also infinite.
Week 2

1.3

Countable Sets

  • Countable and Uncountable sets
  • The set of rational numbers is countable
  • Cantor's Theorem


Week 3

2.1

Algebraic Properties of the Real Numbers

  • Algebraic properties of the Real Numbers


Week 3

2.1

Rational and Irrational Numbers

  • The Rational Numbers
  • Proof that the Square Root of 2 does not exist in the rational numbers
  • The Irrational Numbers


Week 2

2.1

The Ordering Properties of the Real Numbers

  • The ordering properties of the real numbers
  • Tricotomy property
  • If 0 <= a < x for each x in the positive real numbers, then a = 0.


Week 2

2.1

Inequalities

  • Using the order properties to solve equations
  • Arithmetic-geometric mean
  • Bernoulli's Inequality


Week 2/3

2.2

Absolute Value and the Real Line

  • The absolute value function
  • The Triangle Inequality
  • Distance between elements of the real numbers
  • Definition of an epsilon neighborhood


Week 3

2.3

Suprema, Infima, and the Completeness Property

  • Upper and lower bounds of sets
  • Definition of the suprema and infima of a set
  • Thed completeness property of the real numbers


Week 3

2.4

Applications of the Supremum Property

  • Bounded Functions
  • The Archimedean Property
  • The existence of the square root of 2
  • Density of the rational numbers in the real numbers


Week 3/4

2.5

Intervals

  • Types of Intervals
  • Characterization of Intervals
  • Nested intervals
  • The Nested Intervals Property
  • Demonstrate that the real numbers are not countable


Week 4

3.1

Sequences and Their Limits

  • Definition of the limit of a sequence
  • The uniqueness of limits in the real numbers
  • Tails of sequences
  • Examples of common sequences


Week 4

3.2

The Limit Laws for Sequences

  • Bounded Sequences
  • Summation, difference, products, and quotients of sequences
  • The squeeze theorem for sequences
  • Divergent Sequences


Week 4/5

3.3

Monotone Sequences

  • Increasing and Decreasing sequences
  • The Monotone Convergence theorem
  • Inductively defined sequences
  • The existence of Euler's Number


Week 5

3.4

Subsequences

  • Definition of a Subsequence
  • If a sequence converges to limit L, then every subsequence of that sequence also converges to L.
  • Definition of a divergent Sequence
  • Divergence criteria of a sequence
  • Monotone subsequence theorem


Week 5

3.4

The Bolzano Weierstrass Theorem

  • The Bolzano Weierstrass Theorem
  • Examples using the Bolzano Weierstrass Theorem


Week 5/6

3.4

The Limit Superior and Limit Inferior

  • Definition of the limit superior and limit inferior
  • Equivalent statements defining the limit superior and limit inferior
  • A bounded sequence converges if and only if its limit superior equals its limit inferior


Week 6

3.5

The Cauchy Criterion for Convergence

  • Definition of a Cauchy sequence
  • A sequence converges if and only if it is a Cauchy sequence
  • Contractive sequences


Week 6

3.6

Properly Divergent Sequences

  • Limits that tend to infinity
  • Properly divergent sequences


Week 6/7

3.7

Introduction to Infinite Series

  • Sequences of partial sums
  • If a series converges, then the sequence of coefficients for that series must converge to zero.
  • Examples of common series
  • Comparison tests for series
Week 12

4.1

Cluster Points

  • Definition of a cluster point
  • The cluster point as the limit of a sequence


Week 12

4.1

The Definition of the Limit of a Function

  • The definition of the limit of a function at a point
  • The uniqueness of limits at cluster points
  • Examples of limits of functions
Week 12/13

4.1

The Sequential Criterion and Divergence Criteria

  • The sequential criterion for limits of functions at a point
  • Divergence criteria for limits
  • The signum function


Week 13

4.2

The Limit Theorems for Functions

  • Functions bounded on a neighborhood of a cluster point
  • Sums, differences, products, and quotients of limits
  • The squeeze theorem for limits of functions
  • Examples of Limits using the limit theorems


Week 14

4.3

One Sided Limits

  • The definition of the right and left hand limits of a function at a point
  • The sequential criterion for the left and right hand limits
  • The limit of a function at a point exists if and only if its left and right hand limits are equal


Week 14/15

4.3

Infinite Limits and Limits at Infinity

  • The definition of an infinite limit
  • If the function f is less than the function g on a specified domain and f tends to infinity, then g tends to infinity on this domain as well.
  • The definition of a limit has its independent variable approaches infinity
  • The sequential criterion for limits at infinity