Analysis I, Math 4317

                   
Lectures: MWF 12-1 pm in Skiles 154
                                      by Michael Loss (loss@math.gatech.edu)
                                      Office: Skiles 214 B
                                      Office hours: M,W 2-3 or by appointment

    This page will be frequently updated,
           so, please, consult it often.



Analysis, it is sometimes said, is the art of taking limits! Many interesting mathematical objects arise as limits and one is faced with the challenge of calculating with them. The square root of two, the elementary transcendental functions are elementary
examples, however, solutions of partial differential equations, most of the time, appear as limits as well. It is therefore important to understand how to compute with limits. Analysis provides a number of notions and tools for dealing with limits and this course is a gentle introduction to them.  Since the notions in analysis  are subtle, it is sometimes difficult to get an intuitive feeling of what these things mean.
The only way to stay on firm ground in this field is by understanding and doing proofs. You have to be able to prove certain statements, i.e., to either derive a statement through logical steps from another one, or to find a counterexample. Thus, this course
is not so much about solving particular problems but teach you the language of analysis.

Among the topics to discuss are elementary set theory, the real numbers,
metric spaces, continuous functions as well as differentiation and integration.
The course is based on the text `Introduction to Analysis' (IA) by Maxwell Rosenlicht,
Dover 1986, ISBN 0-486-65038-3. Please read the assigned text before coming to class.
Moreover, for some other topics I supply some notes on the web. You will find them
on this link.

  Practice is important. You will have to do homework that is regularly graded. In addition there will be two tests and a final exam.

  Your grade will be based on how well you solve the homework and the tests. The lowest test score will be dropped. Homework counts 30%, the test counts 30% and the final counts 40% towards your grade.

Here are some

                                                                                    Practice Tests

Now a few words about the homework. Every week I assign problems and half of them will be graded, but I am not telling you which ones. It goes without saying that you to do the homework yourself, i.e., you do not copy from others. I do not mind that, should you get stuck, you ask your fellow students for help, but you have to try first yourself. Let me also remind you to uphold the honor code at all times. You find
more information at  http://www.deanofstudents.gatech.edu/Honor/

Please turn in the home work always on Wednesdays, the week after in class.


Here is a tentative syllabus. I do not want ot stick to it in a rigid fashion.
There may be a topic that for some reason will require that we spend more time
on it. I would like to have this option.  It is better to understand fewer topics
very well than lots of topics badly.

  Please note that weeks 3-14 have an exercise group assigned to the homework.
  At the end I indicated the day and times students can get together and work on the
  solutions.
  The names that have question marks are students that are not on the roster of t-square.
  There were four students on the roster that did not sign up for an exercise group.
  Please do this right away if you have not already done so. Because of this, the groups,
  except for the first one, are tentative.
  Each group solves the homework in detail and submits it to me on Friday of the
  following week in class. This group - solutions with my corrections will be posted
  on the web.

  The Final Exam is on Monday December 13 from 11:30-2:20 in Skiles Room 154

 Practice Final

Solutions for the practice final

 There will be a review session on Thursday December 9 from 6-8 pm in Skiles Room 202

  Week 1: August 23 - 27  Assigned Text: Chapter 1 in IA
  Homework: Do all the problems at the end of Chapter 1 in IA.

  Week 2: August 30 - September 3
.  Assigned Text: Chapter 2 in  IA
  Homework: Do problems  2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16 on pages 29-31
 
Christopher Stevens, Eric Tollefson, Sarwat Nasir  M 8-10 am

    Homework 2 Solutions

  Week 3: September 6-10
.  Assigned Text: Chapter 3, Section 1- 3, in IA
  Homework: Do problems 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 on pages 61-62 of IA.
 
Beck Brian , Zhongyuan Yu, McCullough Andrew     M 1- 3 pm

    Homework 3 Solutions

  Week 4: September 13 - 17
.  Assigned Text: Chapter 3, Section 4 - 6, in IA
  Homework: Do problems 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 33, on pages 62-64 of IA.

  Quinn Chrzan, Elizabeth Knybel, Ahmet Ozlu, Tugce Isik M 2 - 4 pm

    Homework 4 Solutions

  Week 5: September 20 - 24
.  Assigned Text: Chapter 3, Section 4-6,  in IA
   Homework: Do problems 17, 19, 21, 27, 29, 31, 34, 35, 37, 38 on pages 62-65 in IA.
  Hain Stephen,  Weyer Daniel, Reames Benjamin, Youmans Michael  Th 5 - 7 pm
 
    Homework 5 Solutions
 
  Week 6: September 27 - October 1
.  Assigned Text: Chapter 4, Section 1- 3,  in IA
  Homework: 1a), 1d), 2, 4, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15 on page 91, 92 od IA.T
  Loibl Matthew, Loranger Trevor,  Ozuretmen Can  M 2 - 4 pm
  There will be a 50 minute test in class on Wednesday September 29 on the topics covered
  in the week 1-5
 
    Homework 6 Solutions

  Solutions of Test 1

  Week 7: October 4 - 8.  Assigned Text: Chapter 4, Section 1-3  in IA
 
Homework: 3, 6, 7, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 on pages 91-93 of IA.
  Kaddouri Samar, Matt Perez ??? T 4 - 6 pm

   Homework 7 Solutions

  Week 8: October 11-15
.  Assigned Text: Chapter 4, Section 4-6  in IA
 
Homework: 25, 27, 30, 32, 33b, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 p. 93/94 of IA.
  Bolding Mark ,  Coogle Richard  T  2 - 4 pm
 (October 15 is the last day to drop the course)

  Homework 8 Solutions

  Some remarks about the solutions

  Week 9: October 18 - 22
.  Assigned Text: Chapter 4, Section 4-6 in IA
 
Homework: 23, 26, 28, 29, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46 p. 93-95 in IA.
 
Warrayat Amena, Blanca-Pimentel Antonio, Olcay Sarmaz ???,  F 10 -12
 
  Homework 9 Solutions

  Week 10: October 25 - 29
.  Assigned Text: Chapter 5  in IA
 
Homework: Problems 1-6 and 8 on p 108/109 in IA. Please do 8 instead of 7 which is too hard.
  Jia Leroy, Martie Lee , Sarju Vasavada???, Kumar, Lori F 6 - 8 pm

  Homework 10 part 1 Solutions
  Homework 10 part 2 Solutions

  Week 11: November 1 - 5
.  Assigned Text: Chapter 5  in IA
 
Homework:  Problems 9-14 on page 109/110
  De la Croix Jean-Pierre,  Fayyaz Ubaid Ullah,  Dursun Joseph M 2-4
 
There will be a 50 minute test in class on Wednesday November 3 on the topics covered
  in the week 1-10.


  Solutions of Test 2

  Notes on integration
 
  Homework 11 Solutions
 
  Week 12: November 8 - 12
.  Assigned Text: Chapter 6 Sections 1, 2 in IA
 
Homework: problems 1-3, 7-11 on page 132/133 of IA
  Roop Jonathan, Seeds Gregory T 1-3 pm
 

  Notes on equicontinuity

  Week 13: November 15 - 19
.  Assigned Text: Chapter 6 Sections 3-4  in IA
 
Homework: problems 12-17,19, 21and 22 on pages 133/134 in IA.
  Jeffries Alex , Michelle Delcourt, By Robert  T 11-1 pm
 
 Homework 13 Solutions

  Week 14: November 22 -26.  Assigned Text: Chapter  6 Section 5 in IA
 
Homework: problems 20, 23, 24 a), b), 25, 26, 28 on pages 134/135 in IA.
  Moore Tucker, Al-Khalil Bilal,  Macon George   T 6 - 8  pm
 

  Homework 14 Solutions
  Week 15: November 29 - December 3
.  Assigned Text: Chapter 8, Sections 1, 2, 3 in IA

  Week 16: December 6 - 10
.  Assigned Text: Continue Chapter 8 Section 3 in IA