Analysis I

Midsemester Examination

Friday, 23rd September, 10am to 1pm.

Final Examination Questions

Homework

Homework I
Homework II
Homework III
Homework IV
Homework V
Homework VI
Homework VII
Homework VIII
Homework IX
Homework X
Homework XI

Recommended reading

Primary texts
Apostol, T.M., Mathematical analysis, Addison-Wesley.
Bromwich, T.J.I'a, An introduction to the theory of infinite series, MacMillan & Co. Ltd.
Hardy, G.H., Pure Mathematics, Cambridge University Press.
Rudin, W., Principles of mathematical analysis, McGraw-Hill.
Simmons, G.F., Introduction to topology and modern analysis, McGraw-Hill.
Whittaker, E.T. and Watson G.N., A course of modern analysis, Cambridge University Press.
Supplementary reading
Artin, E., The Gamma function, Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Baker, A., Transcendental number theory, Cambridge University Press.
Dedekind, R., Essays on the theory of numbers, Dover Publications Inc.
Euclid, The Elements (Translated with Introduction and commentary by Sir Thomas L. Heath), Dover Publications Inc. Some further comments.

Topics discussed (loosely)

Construction of real numbers by Dedekind cuts, completeness; rational, irrational and transcendental numbers, Liouville's theorem on approximation of algebraic numbers, Complex numbers, Euclidean spaces.

Metric spaces, open sets, closed sets, convergence of sequences, compact sets, Heine-Borel theorem, Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem.

Sequences and series, convergence, conditional and absolute; open, closed and compact sets, Abel's inequality, Dirichlet's test, Cauchy's root test, D'Alembert's ratio test, other comparisons, deMorgan's theorem applied to hypergeometric series; double series, Pringsheim's theorem.

Continuous functions, intermediate value theorem, uniform convergence (for functions), preservation of continuity under uniform convergence, Weierstrass M-test, application to power series.

Abel's theorem on continuity up to the circle of convergence, Abel's theorem on products of series, sums and products of power series, composition, inversion, differentiation and integration of functions given by power series, the principle of analytic continuation, exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric functions, periodicity of the exponential function.

Infinite products, Euler product for the Riemann zeta function, Euler's theorem on the divergence of the series of reciprocals of prime numbers.

Convex functions. Gamma functions, characterisation in terms of functional equation and convexity of its logarithm (see Artin's book, or Rudin's book).

Functions on a closed interval-maximum and minimum of a continuous function, Riemann integral of a bounded function, first and second (Bonnet's) mean value theorems for integrals, improper integrals of the first and second type, absolute convergence, comparison tests, Chartier's test.

Orthonormal systems, trigonometric series, Fourier coefficients, Bessel's inequality, the Dirichlet kernel, partial sums of Fourier series in terms of the Dirichlet kernel, localization theorem, Fejer's theorem, Parseval's theorem, approximation of Riemann integrable functions by continuous functions (in the L^2 norm).

Weierstrass approximation theorem, algebras of functions, Stone-Weierstrass theorems for real and complex-valued functions.


Links

Biographies of Mathematicians (University of St. Andrews, Scotland).
Works of Hamilton and Riemann.
Euclid's Elements online!
Which famous mathematicians were born today?
Analysis I website from 2004.