MATH 25b

Honors Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra

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Course Outline (last modified 03/15/06)

DateTopicsReading
Wed 1st Feb Introduction and overview: Rudin Ch 2 and 3
Fri 3rd Feb Limits and continuity Rudin 4.1-4.13
Mon 6th Feb Continuity and compactness Rudin 4.13-4.21
Wed 8th Feb Continuity and connectedness (Intermediate Value Theorem) Rudin 4.12-4.34
Fri 10th Fb Differentiability, examples Rudin 5.1-5.6
Mon 13th Feb Examples, Rolle's Theorem, Mean Value Theorem Rudin 5.7-5.11
Wed 15th Feb MVT, L'Hôpital's rule, devil's staircase Rudin 5.11-5.14
Fri 17th Feb Taylor's Theorem and applications Rudin 5.14-5.19
Mon 20th Feb No class (President's Day) None
Wed 22nd Feb Integration Rudin 6.1-6.7
Fri 24th Feb Continuous and monotonic functions are integrable Rudin 6.8-6.11
Mon 27th Feb Properties of integration Rudin 6.12-6.19
Wed 1st March Fundamental Theorem of Calculus Rudin 6.20-6.27
Friday 3rd March Pointwise and uniform convergence Rudin 7.1-7.12
Mon 6th March Uniform convergence differentiation and integration Rudin 7.13-7.18
Wed 8th March Power series Rudin 8.1-8.5
Friday 10th March Equicontinuity/Ascoli-Arzela Theorem Rudin 7.19-7.25
Mon 13th March Stone-Weierstrass Theorem Rundin 7.26-7.33
Wed 15th March Introduction to multivariable functions, continuity Spivak Ch 1
Fri 17th March Derivatives, Chain rule Spivak Ch2 p 15-22
Mon 20th March Partial derivatives, Jacobian, Chain rule pt 2 Spivak p 25-31
Wed 22nd March Inverse Function Theorem Spivak p 31-39
Fri 24th March Implicit Function Theorem/Rank Theorem Spivak p 39-45
Mon 27th March No Class - Spring break. .
Wed 29th March No Class - Spring break. .
Fri 31st March No Class - Spring break. .
Mon 3rd April IFT examples, max/minima, lagrange Class notes
Wed 5th April Integration, measure, content Spivak Ch3 p 46-52
Fri 7th April Fubini Theorem Spivak p 52-58
Mon 10th April Integration examples, partitions of unity Class notes
Wed 12th April Change of variables Spivak p 66-73
Fri 14th April Tensors Class notes and Spivak Ch 4 p 75-77
Mon 17th Apil Alternating Tensors Spivak Ch 4 p 78 - 83
Wed 19th April Orientation, vector fields, differential forms Spivak p 83- 89
Fri 21st April Pullbacks, differential, closed and exact forms. Spivak p 89 - 92
Mon 24th April Poincare Lemma, n-chains. Spivak p 94 -100
Wed 26th April Integrating forms Spivak p 100-104
Fri 28th April Stokes's Theorem, consequences Class notes and Spivak
Mon 1st May Manifolds Spivak Ch5
Wed 3rd May Fields, forms, orientation Spivak Ch5
Fri 5th May Stokes's Theorem redux Spivak Ch 5