School of Mathematics School of Mathematics
Course 121 - Introduction to Analysis 2005-06 (JF Mathematics, JF Theoretical Physics, JF Two-Subject Moderatorship (for Mathematics + Economics), SF Two-Subject Moderatorship)
Lecturer: Dr. J. Stalker
Requirements/prerequisites: Some mathematical intuition

Duration: Full year

Number of lectures per week: 3 + tutorial

Assessment:
End-of-year Examination: A 3-hour paper.

Description:

The following topics will be covered among others:-

  1. numbers and sets; the Least Upper Bound Axiom;

  2. convergence of sequences;

  3. limits and continuity;

  4. differentiation;

  5. integration;

  6. analysis in the complex plane;

  7. infinite series;

  8. open and closed sets.

Textbooks

No text book will be followed slavishly.

For those who wish to see a text book the following may appeal (this is a highly personal matter).

  1. W. Rudin Principles of Mathematical Analysis.

  2. D.G. Bell An Introduction to Real Analysis.

  3. M. Spivak Calculus.

Mar 3, 2006


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