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Textbook (required):
Analysis II (Texts and Readings in Mathematics Book 38)
by Terence Tao. Springer, Fourth Edition, 2022 (previous editions work as well).
If you did not use Tao's first volume in Math 401
you might consider getting or borrowing the first volume Analysis I .
Here you will find the first four chapters of Tao's Analysis I and the last two appendices in pdf format
pdf file.
Terence Tao is an exceptional mathematician who has earned almost all possible awards a mathematician can get, including the 2006 Fields Medal (the equivalent of a Nobel Price in Mathematics), the 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, he was the first recipient of the Riemann Prize in 2019 and the Grand Medaillefrom the French Academie of Sciences. He also cares deeply about teaching, and our textbook is an example of that. Here are links to his wikipedia page, see also a 2015 New York Times
article about Tao.
Recommended texts (not required):
There are many other excellent introductory analysis books. Reading from other
sources is always very valuable. I recommend two other books that include the material discussed in this class:
Introduction to Analysis by Maxwell Rosenlicht (a Dover book
very cheap), and The Way of Analysis by Robert S. Strichartz.
Course Structure: There are 2 lectures per week on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The course will cover Chapter 11 (in Tao's Analysis I), Chapters 12-15, Chapter 17, and time permitting, we will touch on Chapters 18-19 (in Tao's Analysis II). Note that in the third and fourth editions the chapter numbering in Volume II now starts at 1, for Chapter N in the second edition with N>11, it will be Chapter (N-11) in the third or fourth editions.
Course content:
This is the second part of
a first one year course in analysis, concerned mostly with
analysis on metric spaces, particularly analysis
on R^n. In the first part, Math 401,
the fundamentals of calculus in one variable were covered, starting with the
definition of the real numbers, sequences of numbers, series
and working your way through the concepts
of limits, functions, continuity and differentiability of functions
on the real line, and lightly (if at all) touching on Riemann integration.
A good amount of time was spent
learning and practicing logical thinking. At this point I expect
the students have acquired the basic skills of mathematical reasoning,
a deeper understanding of calculus, and are ready to continue
learning more analysis. In case you need to brush up on your proof skills, here you can find a copy of Richard Hammak's Book of Proof, third edition.
We will start the semester discussing in detail
Riemann integration on bounded intervals. Next topic of discussion
will be metric spaces and
point set topology, in particular the concepts of convergence of sequences,
compactness, continuity and limits are revisited on metric spaces.
Emphasis on the notion of uniform convergence will be made,
and its crucial role
in interchanging limit operations: differentiation, integration, series,
power series.
Then we will plunge into several variable calculus:
derivatives, partial derivatives, chain rule, and the celebrated
contraction mapping, implicit and inverse function theorems.
The last topic (time permitting) will be a brief introduction to
integration on R^n, and change of variables,
paralleling the presentation of the Riemann integral at the begining of the
semester.
Homework: The problems and exercises in the textbook are an integral part of the course. You should solve as many as possible. Homework will be assigned periodically, the problems in the homework will be carefully graded, and returned to you with feedback that will help you correct any errors. You are encouraged to discuss the homework with each other, but you should attempt the problems first on your own. You learn mathematics by doing, and there is no way around this. It is not enough to see your teacher or your friends solving problems, you have to try it yourself.
Exams: There will be two midterms, and a final gorup project.
Grades: The final grade will be determined by your performance on homeworks, the midterms, and the final group project. The grading policies will be discussed in class.
Prerequisites: Math 401/501 or permission from the instructor.
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