Real Analysis I
Fall 2010
Contact Information Important Dates
Professor:Dr. Scott Nollet Exam 1Tuesday, October 5
Office:310 TTC
Office Hours: MTRF 3:00pm-6:00pm
or by appointment.
Exam 2Tuesday, November 16
Office Phone:257-6339
Home Phone:920-7988
E-mail:s.nollet@tcu.edu
Class Hours: TR 6:00pm-7:20pm, 245 TTC Final ExamTuesday, December 14
6:00pm-7:20pm
Pre-requisite:Calculus III and Linear Algebra
Text: Understanding Analysis by Stephen Abbott (Springer-Verlag).
Topics: The real numbers and their properties, sequences and convergence, topology of the real numbers, continuity, limits of functions, differentiation, integration.
Course Goals:There are at least two main objectives for this course.
1. Learning the definitions and results listed in the topics above.
2. Perhaps more important is the development of skills enabling the student to learn more mathematics - careful reasoning and the ability to write convincing mathematical arguments (proofs).
Grades: Grades will be based on Homework and possible quizzes (30%), two Exams (20% each) with tentative dates listed above, and the Final Exam (30%). I will regularly assign homework and encourage you to discuss it with your classmates, but you should not show other students your actual written work (this can lead to mindless copying).
Graduate Component: According to TCU policy, courses involving both undergraduate and graduate students must carry additional work for the graduate students. Therefore I will occasionally assign extra homework or projects relevant to future graduate work or qualifying exams. Extra homework will be denoted by an asterisk linking to additional homework problems. The exams may also be somewhat different on a few problems.
Course Website: I will maintain this website for our course; it will contain homework assignments, solutions, and other useful information. The address is www.math.tcu.edu/math/faculty/Nollet/courses/real1.html.

Homework Assignments
HW #SectionProblemsDate Due
1 1.2 #1,2cde,3 8/26
2 1.2-3 1.2 # 2ab,5,6,7; 1.3 # 1,6 8/31
3 1.3 # 4,7,9 9/2
4 1.4 # 2,3,4 9/7
5 1.4-5 1.4 #9,10,*, 1.5 #6,7,8(b), 2.1 #1 9/14
6 2.2 #2,5,8 9/16
7 2.3 #2,3,6,8abce 9/21
8 2.4 #2,4 9/23
9 2.4-5 2.4 #6abc, 2.5 #3,4,5 9/28
10 2.6 #1,2,4,5a 9/30
11 2.7 #1c,4,5a,9 10/14
12 3.2 #2,3,5,6,7 10/19
13 3.2 #10,12 10/21
14 3.3 #2,3,4,5,7 10/26
15 3.3, 4.2 3.3 #9, 4.2 #1abd 10/28
16 4.2 #1c,3,5 (second part of (c) is extra credit),8,9 11/2
17 4.3 #2,4b,7,8 11/4
18 4.4 #1,4,6,9,11 11/9
19 4.5 #2,3,7 11/11
20 5.2 #2,4,5ab 11/18
21 5.3 #5.3.1 ,5.3.3ab, 5.3.5 (and 5.2.5ab if you didn't turn it in already) 11/23
22 7.2 #1,2,3 12/2
23 7.2-4 7.2 #4bc,6; 7.3 #1,5; 7.4 #4 12/7