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MTH301A: Analysis- I

Course Description

Analysis I covers fundamentals of mathematical analysis: metric spaces, convergence of sequences and series, continuity, differentiability, Riemann integral, sequences and series of functions, uniformity, interchange of limit operations.

Course Content

  •  Completeness property. Countable and Uncountable.
  •  Metric spaces, Examples--$l_p, C[a, b]$, Limit, Open sets, Convergence of a sequence, Closed sets, Continuity.
  •  Complete metric space, Nested set theorem, Baire category theorem, Applications.
  •  Totally bounded, Characterizations of compactness, Finite intersection property, Continuous functions on compact sets, Uniform continuity.
  •  Characterizations of connectedness, Continuous functions on connected sets, Path connected.
  • Definition and existence of integral, Fundamental theorem of calculus, Set of measure zero, Cantor set, Characterization of integrable functions.
  • Point-wise and uniform convergence of sequenceof functions, Series of functions, Power series, Dini's theorem, Ascoli's theorem, Continuous function which is nowhere differentiable, Weierstrass approximation theorem.

Course Audience

 MSc 2 years and who has done MTH101A.

Refs.

  1. N. L. Carothers, Real Analysis.

  2. R. R. Goldberg, Methods of Real Analysis.

  3. W. Rudin: Principles of Mathematical Analysis.

Evaluation.

  1. Quiz + homework -- 30%
  2. Mid-sem (announced) --  30%
  3. End-sem (announced) -- 40%