Math 5201 Real Variables
Fall 2014
Prof. Peckham
Written Assignments and Tests
Text: Real Mathematical Analysis,
by Charles C. Pugh, Springer, 2002.
- Set 1 Due Wednesday Sept. 10:
- Review your calculus text for definitions of the limit of function, continuity, derivative, and
the limit of a sequence.
- A. Prove: lim as x->2 of x2+1 = 5. Use epsilon-delta argument.
- B. Prove: The function f defined by f(x)=x2+1 is continuous at x=1. Use epsilon-delta argument.
- C. Prove: The derivative of f(x)=x2+1 at x=1 is 2. Compute directly from the definition of derivative, but you need not use epsilon-delta arguments.
- D. Prove: lim as n->infinity 1/(n^2-1) = 0. Use epsilon-N argument.
- Read: Sections 1.1-1.2. In 1.2, skim pp 13 from the Pf of Theorem 2 through p. 16. Skim the rest of Chapter 1.
- Textbook Assignment: Ch 1: 2a-c,3a,5a,7d. Extra credit: 8.
- Quiz 1: Fri Sept 19 at end of class.
Prove 1. The monotone covergence theorem for nondecreasing sequences bounded above
2. One of the following series theorems: Basic comparison test, ratio test,
integral test, geometric series (for r<1).
- Set 2 Due Wednesday Sept. 24:
- Skim Section 1.3. Read Section 1.4. Look through Sections 1.5 - 1.6.
- Read Section 3.3 on Series, especially the comparison test, ratio test, and integral test.
- Show the sequence defined by an = log(n) is not Cauchy, but does satisfy
|an - an+1|->0.
Use espsilon-N definition directly. Do not directly use the fact that the sequence is known to be unbounded or that the sequence is known to diverge.
- Show that if f:[a,b]->R, and f is nondecreasing, the one-sided limits exist for all x in (a,b).
Hint: mimic the ideas in the proof of MCT.
- Textbook assignment: Ch 1: 9a, 11 (hint: use contradiction), 17, 36a (eliminate), 39, 42abce
Related to 42d, but slightly easier:
- Find sequences such that limsup (a_n+b_n) < limsup (a_n) + limsup (b_n)
- Find a sequence and a constant c such that limsup(c a_n) is NOT equal to c limsup(a_n).
Extra Credit: 35a.
- Quiz 2: Wednesday Oct. 1.
Possible questions: Prove the rationals are countable. Prove the reals are not countable. Show the epsilon-delta version of continuity is equivalent to the sequence version of continuity. Compute limsup, liminf of specific sequences. Give examples of series where various tests (eg ratio) fail.
- Set 3 Due Monday Oct. 6 MOVED to Wednesday Oct. 8:
- Read Sections 2.1 - 2.2.
- Ch 2: 2,3, 6b,7,12 (w/o "more generally"), 25a, 26
- Extra credit: 30b
- Midterm 1: Friday, Oct. 10 MOVED to Monday Oct. 13, 3-4:30.
Sequences and series, topics covered in Chapter 1 with definition of cuts, Chapter 2: 2.1.
Basic theorems and proofs.
Definitions and short problems. Examples. See
Test 1 topic list .
See also Practice Test 1.
- HW Set 1 corrections, HW Set 3 corrections
Due Monday Oct. 20.
- Set 4 Due Monday Oct. 27:
- Read Sections 2.1 - 2.2.
- Ch 2: 8,22,23,39,89a.
- Extra Credit: 46. Due at a time to be determined later, but announced now.
- Quiz 3: Friday Oct. 31.
For this quiz, compact means sequentially compact.
Tentative list of possible questions:
(1) Prove A compact implies A closed. (2) Prove A compact implies A bounded. (3) Prove A compact and f continuous implies f(A) is compact. (4) Prove that a closed subset of a compact set is compact. (5) Prove that a sequence that converges in a product space using any of {Euclidean, Sum, max} metrics also converges in either of the other two metrics. (8) Examples: f continuous, A closed, f(A) not closed; f continuous, A bounded, f(A) not bounded; f bijection, continuous, f inverse not continuous; f discontinuous, sequence converging to a in domain, corresponding seq not converging to f(a) in range;
Dates below here to be confirmed.
No class Fri. Nov 7. Time made up in longer classes other days.
- Set 5 Due Mon. Nov. 10:
- Read Sections 2.3 - 2.4.
- Ch 2: 47, 48, 49, 51, 54, 55, 91f, 92e AND give an example with strict inclusion.
- Extra Credit: 46.
- Quiz 4: Friday Nov. 14.
Possible questions: (1) Prove A covering compact implies A closed. (2) Prove A covering compact implies A bounded and/or totally bounded. (3) Prove that A totally bounded implies A is bounded. (4) Prove A covering compact and f continuous implies f(A) is covering compact. (5) Prove that a closed subset of a covering compact set is covering compact. (6) Are pairs of sets homeomorphic? Why or why not? (7) Examples: A connected, int(A) not connected; A disconnected, int(A) connected; A disconnected, cl(A) connected. 8) Prove that if (a_n) is a sequence in M and no subsequence of (a_n) converges to the point m in M, then there exists an r>0 for which a_n is in M_r m (the ball of radius r centered at m) for only finitely many n. (Hint: Prove the contrapositive: if no such r exists, then there will be at least one subsequence that converges to m).)
- Set 6 Due Wednesday Nov. 19:
- Read Ch 3: pp 139-142 (derivative), 146-149 (pathological examples)
- Ch 3: 14ab, 64a
For 14a, show only the first derivative at zero is zero and the first derivative
is continuous on the reals.
- Midterm 2: Monday, Nov. 24. 3-4:30. Mostly on Chapter 2 in Pugh.
Test 2 topic list.
Test 2 from Fall 2013. .
- HW Sets 4 and 5 corrections due Wednesday Nov. 26 (work on corrections in class)
- Thanksgiving Break Nov. 27-28
- Quiz 5: Friday Dec. 5.
Possible questions: 1. Proof of the uniform convergence theorem (Thm 1, Chapter 4). 2. Convergence of functions: pointwise, uniform, L1; examples which coverge pointwise, but not uniformly, or not in L1. 3. Examples of functions that are Ck but not Ck+1; differentiable, but not C1.
- Set 7 Due Monday Dec. 8:
- Read Chapter 4, Section 1. Skim section 5.
- Ch 4: 5a-d
- Denote successive approximations via the Picard iteration method by yn(t). For the
initial value problem y'=y2, y(0) = 1, let y1(t)=1.
Compute y2 and y3 by hand, and y4 and y5
using Mathematica (or any other computational aid). Also compute the exact solution
using separation of variables. Rewrite the exact solution as a power series. Compare
your approximations y2, ..., y5 with the series solution.
- Last day of class: Friday Dec. 12. Retake proofs from Test 2 (optional).
- Final Exam Wed. Dec. 17, 12-1:55PM. Same format as midterms 1 and 2, but cumulative. Ch's 1-5.
See midterm 1 and 2 topics lists above. Add to them:
- Prove that if a sequence of continuous functions converges uniformly, then the limit
function is also continuous.
- Prove that sequences generated by a contraction mapping are Cauchy.
- Compute one or more Picard iterates for approximate solutions to an ODE.
- Determine the C0 (as a subspace of Cb) and/or L^1 distance between given functions.
- Determine whether a sequence of functions converges pointwise, in C^0, or in L^1.
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