University of Rhode Island MTH435: Mathematical Analysis and Topology I
Fall 2017

Schedule

Here is a course timetable showing exactly where we are in class. I will attempt to update it at least weekly, to give you an idea of the reading you need to do to prepare for class that week.

Week beginningTopicsReadingNotes
09/03Welcome to MTH435Are you Ready? worksheet and pp1-31First week of classes
09/102.2 Absolute Value and the Real Line
2.3 Completeness Property
pp32-40
09/172.4 Applications of Supremum property
2.5 Intervals
pp41-49
09/243.1 Sequences and Limits
3.2 Limit Theorems
pp54-69
10/013.3 Monotone Sequences
3.4 Subsequences and Bolzano-Weierstrass
pp70-84
10/083.5 Cauchy Criterionpp85-91No class 10/08 (Columbus Day)
10/153.6 Properly Divergent Sequences
3.7 Introduction to Series
pp91-100
10/229.1 Absolute Convergence
Midterm 1
pp267-270Midterm 1 on 10/24
10/299.2 Tests for Absolute Convergence
9.3 Tests for non-absolute convergence
pp270-280
11/0511.4 Metric Spaces
Convergence in Metric spaces
pp341-347
11/124.1 Limits of Functions
4.2 Limit Theorems
pp102-116
11/19Midterm 2(Revision)Midterm 2 on 11/19
No class 11/21 (Thanksgiving)
11/264.3 Extensions of the Limit Conceptpp116-123
12/035.1 Continuous Functions
5.2 Combinations of Continuous Functions
5.3 Extreme Value Theorem
pp124-136
12/105.3 Intermediate Value Theorempp137-140