M365C Real Analysis I

Unique: #57930
Semester: Fall '09
Lecture: MWF 10-11, RLM 5.126

Professor: Robert Gompf, RLM 12.150
Fall 2009 office hours: M1-2, WF12-1 (I may sometimes be late.)
Office phone: (512) 471-8182
Home: (512) 418-8857
E-mail: gompf@math.utexas.edu

 Syllabus and prerequisites

Text: Maxwell Rosenlicht, Introduction to Analysis, Dover, 1968, ISBN 0-486-65038-3.

Homework will be collected Friday mornings at the beginning of class (or immediately if you arrive late that day). If you can't attend that day, you can slip the paper under my door  before 11:00AM on the due date. Late papers will not be accepted. HW#13 (which would otherwise be due on Thanksgiving weekend) will be collected on the following Monday. HW#14 will be assigned but not collected.

Your current grade data is available on eGradebook .
Midterm exam: Wed. Oct. 7 in class.
Final exam as officially scheduled: Tues. 12/15, 9-noon.
Course grades will be determined by homework (30%), midterm (30%) and final exam (40%). Attendance will not be included. Plus/minus grades will be used as needed.

Approximate schedule of lectures:
The real numbers (Rosenlicht Ch. II): 4 lectures
Cardinality: 1 lecture
Metric spaces (Ch. III):  16 lectures
Continuous functions (Ch. IV): 9 lectures
Differentiation (Ch. V): 4 lectures
Riemann integration (Ch. VI): 8 lectures


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