MAA 4212, Sections 16E9 (14752) and 3009 (14771), Spring 2021

Tentative Schedule of Lectures

This schedule is your instructor's estimate, as of the start of the semester, of what chapter-sections of the textbook will be covered when. In addition to the dates only being estimates, there may be changes to the set of chapter-sections represented below, and there may be some detours from the book.

Last updated Thu Jan 7 15:27 EST 2021

week
of
semester
dates book sections
Week 1 M 1/11 Section 1.1 (metric spaces: definitions and examples) begun
W 1/13 Sections 1.1 cont'd
F 1/15 Section 1.1 concluded; Section 1.2 (metric-space topology intro) begun
Week 2 M 1/18 MLK Day (no class)
W 1/20 Section 1.2 cont'd
F 1/22 Section 1.2 concluded; Section 1.3 (relative topology) begun
Week 3 M 1/25 Section 1.3 concluded; Section 1.4 (Cauchy sequences and completeness) begun
W 1/27 Section 1.4 concluded; Section 1.5 (compactness) begun
F 1/29 Section 1.5 (compactness) cont'd
Week 4 M 2/1 Section 1.5 concluded; Section 2.1 (continuity of functions between metric spaces) begun
W 2/3 Section 2.1 concluded; Section 2.2 (continuity and product spaces) begun
F 2/5 Section 2.2 concluded; Section 2.3 (continuity and compactness) begun
Week 5 M 2/8 Section 2.3 cont'd
W 2/10 Section 2.3 concluded; Section 2.4 (continuity and connectedness) begun
F 2/12 Section 2.4 concluded
Week 6 M 2/15 Section 3.1 (limits of functions); Section 3.2 (sequences of functions; pointwise and uniform convergence)
W 2/17 Section 3.3 (uniform convergence and continuity)
F 2/19 Section 3.4 (uniform metric)
Week 7 M 2/22 Section 3.5 (series of real-valued functions on a metric space)
W 2/24 Section 4.1 (formal power series)
F 2/26 Section 4.2 (real analytic functions) begun
Week 8 M 3/1 Section 4.2 concluded; Section 4.3 (Abel's Theorem) begun
W 3/3 Section 4.3 concluded; Section 4.4 (multiplication of power series) begun
F 3/5 Section 4.4 concluded; Section 4.5 (exp and log) reviewed
Week 9 M 3/8 Section 4.6 (complex numbers; complex-valued series)
W 3/10 Section 4.7 (trig functions)
F 3/12 Section 6.1 (linear algebra review)
Week 10 M 3/15 Section 6.2 ("grown-up" derivatives)
W 3/17 Section 6.3 (partial and directional derivatives) begun
F 3/19 Section 6.3 concluded; Section 6.4 ("grown-up" Chain Rule) begun
Week 11 M 3/22 Section 6.4 concluded; Section 6.5 (equality of cross-partials)
W 3/24 Spring "recharge day" (no class)
F 3/26 Section 6.6 (Contracting-Mapping Theorem)
Week 12 M 3/29 Section 6.7 (Inverse Function Theorem) begun
W 3/31 Section 6.7 concluded; Section 6.8 (Implicit Function Theorem) begun
F 4/2 Section 6.8 concluded; Section 7.1 (Lebesgue measure: intro) begun
Week 13 M 4/5 Section 7.1 concluded; Section 7.2 (outer measure) begun
W 4/7 Section 7.2 concluded; Section 7.3 (non-additivity of outer measure)
F 4/9 Section 7.4 (measurable sets)
Week 14 M 4/12 Section 7.5 (measurable functions)
M 4/14 Section 8.1 (Lebesgue integral of simple functions)
F 4/16 Section 8.2 (Lebesgue integration of measurable functions) begun
Week 15 M 4/19 Section 8.2 concluded; Section 8.3 (absolutely integrable functions) begun
W 4/21
(last day of classes)
Section 8.3 concluded; Section 8.4 (comparison with Riemann integral)

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