Class Diary for M447, Fall 2015, Jochen Denzler


Wed Aug 19: Notation; sets, and basic logic associated with them.
Fri Aug 21: Functions; images and inverse images; injective, surjective, bijective. Field axioms (as part of the axioms for the real numbers).
Mon Aug 24: Hwk discussion; Ordered Fields; examples.
Wed Aug 26: Hwk discussion; order on R(X); Archimedean property; R(X) is an example of a non-archimedean ordered field;
Fri Aug 28: The supremum axiom; The reals defined as a (the) ordered field satisfying the supremum axiom; brief outlook on construction of integers and rationals from natural numbers (will comment on construction of reals a bit later). Archimedean property proved from sup axiom
Mon Aug 31: Dedekind cuts quickly for info purposes; More on Archimedean property; construction of complex numbers from reals; Limits of sequences. Hwk 1-3 due Friday (some info on #3 will come on Wed yet)
Wed Sep 02: Limit laws. limsup and liminf.
Fri Sep 04: Proofs with lim / limsup / liminf. Cauchy sequences and their convergence. Hwk 4-8 due Friday.
Mon Sep 07: LABOR DAY
Wed Sep 09: Normed vector spaces; definition and examples; convergent sequences and Cauchy-sequences.
Fri Sep 11: Metric spaces, convergent and Cauchy sequences therein. Completeness.
Mon Sep 14: Banach's fixed point theorem. Hwk 9-14 due Friday if possible.
Wed Sep 16: Some applications of BFPT mentioned. Continuity and uniform continuity for mappings btw metric spaces.
Fri Sep 18: Continuity of exp function proved; pointwise and uniform convergence of functions defined. Hwk 15-18 due Friday if possible.
Mon Sep 21: Proof for uniform limits of continuous functions; Hwk 7 returned and amply discussed. Hwk 15-20 due Monday (moving deadline from Friday and updating file)
Wed Sep 23: Hwk 7 a few more comments; Bolzano Weierstrass;
Fri Sep 25: continuous fcts on closed bdd interval; sequential compactness; Intermediate value theorem; balls in metric spaces.
Mon Sep 28: Open and closed sets; topology. new hwk 21-26, 29 due Monday (27,28 have more time)
Wed Sep 30: boundary; continuity in terms of open sets; some counterexamples for f(open)=open and the like
Fri Oct 02: a counterex. involving the Cantor set; connectedness and examples
Mon Oct 05: connected sets in the reals; continuous fcts map connected into connected Hwk 27,28, 30-32 are hereby assigned, but will not be collected. Sols posted already
Wed Oct 07: EXAM 1
Fri Oct 09: Cover compactness, and an example thm (uniform continuity). We will see it is equivalent to sequential compactness.
Mon Oct 12: Totally bounded (and motivation of the notion. Equivalence of compactness proved (almost finished)
Wed Oct 14: Equivalence proof finished; consequences.
Fri Oct 16: FALL BREAK
Mon Oct 19: exam return and discussion; a bit more on compactness (pg 59 of handwritten notes)
Wed Oct 21: Arzela Ascoli started; motivation, outline, diagonal sequences
Fri Oct 23: A-A finished; converse started.
Mon Oct 26: A-A converse finished. Equivalence of norms in R^n
Wed Oct 28: Derivatives in single variable
Fri Oct 30: derivative of inverse function; spaces of differentiable functions
Mon Nov 02: Metric, not norm, for C^infinity. Smooth cutoff fct. Mean value theorem and consequences
Wed Nov 04: Lipschitz continuity; uniqueness for some diffeqs.
Fri Nov 06: Uniqueness for some Diff-Eq's. Taylor's formula
Mon Nov 09: Series; Power series; convergence tests.
Wed Nov 11: the exponential series; identified with exp fct by E'=E, then extended to complex arguments; functional equation of exp from power series
Fri Nov 13: Cauchy product; convergence pf for Cauchy product of two abs convergent series.
Mon Nov 16: power series of sin and cos defined; easy consequences
Wed Nov 18: EXAM 2
Fri Nov 20: leftovers: Cauchy-Hadamard formula for power series; addition thm for sin, cos via Taylor's formula; analytic functions defined;
Mon Nov 23: power series of inverse function: convergence proof by majorant method
Wed Nov 25:
Fri Nov 27: THANKSGIVING BREAK
Mon Nov 30:
Wed Dec 02: STUDY DAY
Mon Dec 07: FINAL EXAM 08:00-10:00 (scheduled by university policy), see exam schedule by class.


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