Syllabus for Introduction to Modern Analysis: Math GU4061,

Sections 1 and 2

Fall 2019

Instructor: Evgeni Dimitrov

September 3, 2019

E-mail: esd2138@columbia.edu Phone: 609-937-1530

Oce Hours: TBA
Class Hours Section 1: TTh 2:40-3:55 pm Location: Math 203
Class Hours Section 2: TTh 4:10-5:25 pm Location: Math 520
Graduate TA: TBA Graduate E-mail: TBA
TA Oce hours: TBA

Course Description
The course is based on the book Principles of Mathematical Analysis, 3rd Edition by W. Rudin.
Topics include:

• The real and complex number systems (Chapter 1)

• Basic topology (Chapter 2)

• Numerical sequences and series (Chapter 3)

• Continuity (Chapter 4)

• Dierentiation (Chapter 5)

• The Riemann-Stieltjes integral (Chapter 6)

• Sequences and series of functions (Chapter 7)

Prerequisites
Calculus I and II (Math UN 1101, 1102 or equivalent) are hard requirements. The course also has
the following soft requirements: Calculus III and IV (Math UN 1201, 1202 or equivalent); Linear
Algebra (Math UN 2010 or equivalent). Students are solely responsible for the hard requirements.
If unsure about your background come and talk to me.

Grading scheme
Homework: 25%
Midterms: 2 × 20%
Final exam: 35%.

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Homework
There will be ten (almost) weekly homework assignments that account for twenty-ve percent of
the grade. Assignments are posted on Courseworks and solutions to the problems should preferably
be hand-written by students. There is a homework drop box for the class on the fourth oor of the
Mathematics building across from room 410. The homework should be placed there before class
starts on Thursday or submitted at the beginning of the class. Solutions to the assignments will
also be posted on Courseworks.
Before submission students should scan (or take cell phone pictures) of their homework. This
way if a student's assignment is lost they can submit their scan for a regrade.
The two lowest homework grades are automatically dropped.

Late submissions and exam rescheduling

Late homeworks are not accepted. Completing assignments is an important part of the class
and it is easy to fall behind even if one or two problem sets are missed. Please start your homework
early and submit it on time.

Collaboration policy
Students are encouraged to work together and use any resources available while solving the problems,
but are advised to spend some time thinking about the problems individually. Everyone must write
up their problem set in their own words and disclose all sources they have used including fellow
students, oce hours, other books etc.

Academic integrity and honesty

Roughly, students are not allowed to copy other students' work or use sources from outside of class
without citing them. Students are also not allowed to cheat in any way during exams. For more on
this, please consult the Columbia University Undergraduate Guide to Academic Integrity here.

Disability services
Students with disabilities requiring special accommodation should contact the Oce of Disability
Services (ODS) promptly to discuss appropriate arrangements.
See http://health.columbia.edu/services/ods/referrals

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Tentative structure of lectures
1. Tuesday, Sep 3. Ordered sets, elds, real numbers (pages 1  12)

2. Thursday, Sep 5. Complex numbers, Euclidean spaces, functions (pages 12  21)

3. Tuesday, Sep 10. Countable and uncountable sets (pages 24  30)

4. Thursday, Sep 12. Metric spaces, open, closed sets (pages 30  36)
[Assignment 1 due]

5. Tuesday, Sep 17. Compact sets (pages 36  40)

6. Thursday, Sep 19. Perfect sets, the Cantor set, connected sets (pages 41 43)
[Assignment 2 due]

7. Tuesday, Sep 24. Sequences, convergence, Cauchy sequences (pages 47  54)

8. Thursday, Sep 26. Completeness, upper and lower limits, series, comparison test (pages 54 
60) [Assignment 3 due]

9. Tuesday, Oct 1. Series of nonnegative terms, the number e, root and ratio tests (pages 61 
68)

10. Thursday, Oct 3. MIDTERM I

11. Tuesday, Oct 8. Power series, conditional and absolute convergence (pages 69  72)

12. Thursday, Oct 10. Addition and multiplication of series, rearrangement of series (pages 72 
78) [Assignment 4 due]

13. Tuesday, Oct 15. Continuous functions, continuity and compactness (pages 83  90)

14. Thursday, Oct 17. Uniform continuity, continuity and connectedness (pages 90  97) [As-
signment 5 due]

15. Tuesday, Oct 22. Dierentiation, Mean value theorem (pages 103  109)

16. Thursday, Oct 24. L'Hospital's rule, Taylor's theorem (pages 109  113) [Assignment 6 due]

17. Tuesday, Oct 29. The Riemmann-Stieltjes integral (pages 120  127)

18. Thursday, Oct 31. Properties of the integral (pages 128  132 )
[Assignment 7 due]

19. Tuesday, Nov 5. Academic Holiday  No classes

20. Thursday, Nov 7. MIDTERM II

21. Tuesday, Nov 12. Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, rectiable curves (pages 132  137)

22. Thursday, Nov 14. Sequences and series of functions, pointwise and uniform convergence
(pages 140  148)[Assignment 8 due]

23. Tuesday, Nov 19. Uniform convergence, continuity and dierentiation (pages 148  154)

24. Thursday, Nov 21. Holiday  No classes

25. Tuesday, Nov 26. Equicontinuous families, the Arzela-Ascoli theorem (pages 154  158)

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26. Thursday, Nov 28. The Stone-Weierstrass theorem (pages 159  165) [Assignment 9 due]

27. Tuesday, Dec 3. Further topics in analysis

28. Thursday, Dec 5. Further topics in analysis [Assignment 10 due]