Instructor: Stefan Wenger
Time: MWF 10:00 - 10:50 am
Location: 306 AH
Office hours: Monday, 4 - 5pm; Friday, 1 - 2pm, or by appointment
Textbook: John M. Howie, Real Analysis, Springer Verlag
Exams: There will be three midterm exams (the third of which is optional) and a final exam.
Grade distribution: Homework will count 20% towards your grade, the better two midterm exams 20% each, the final exam 40%.
Homework: There will be weekly homework assignments, usually distributed on Friday and due one week later. Late homework will not be accepted.
Course goals: We will cover essentially chapters 1 - 5 and parts of chapter 7 in the textbook. The course is a rigorous introduction to the concepts from Calculus, (almost) everything will be proved and justified, (almost) nothing is taken for granted.
Course progress: If you have to miss a class, you may find out here what we will cover (have covered).
Homework problems:
| Due date (in class) | Exercises |
| Friday, September 4 | Homework 1 (there will be no online solutions for this) |
| Friday, September 11 | Homework 2 (there will be no online solutions for this) |
| Friday, September 18 | Homework 3, Solutions to homework 3 |
| Friday, September 25 | Homework 4, Solutions to homework 4 |
| Practice questions in view of 1st midterm | Sample questions |
| Friday, October 2 | Homework 5, Solutions to homework 5 |
| Friday, October 9 | Homework 6, Solutions to homework 6 |
| Friday, October 16 | Homework 7, Solutions to homework 7 |
| Practice questions in view of 2nd midterm | Sample questions (need not be turned in, solutions will be discussed on October 19, 5-6pm) |
| Solutions to 2nd midterm | Solutions |
| Friday, October 30 | Homework 8, Solutions to homework 8 |
| Friday, November 6 | Homework 9, Solutions to homework 9 |
| Friday, November 13 | Homework 10, Solutions to homework 10 |
| Practice questions in view of 3rd midterm | Sample questions (will be discussed on November 16, 5 - 6pm, in SEO 512.) |
| Monday, November 30 | Homework 11, Solutions to homework 11 |
| Need not be turned in | Homework 12 |
| Practice questions in view of final exam | Sample questions |