Lecture Notes and Videos on Introduction to Analysis I

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Scribes from all lectures so far (as a single big file)

Lec Date Topic(s) Scribe Video
1 Aug 19 syllabus, notation for logical statements, contrapositive proof, proof by contradiction, proof by induction Scb1 Vid1
2 Aug 21 sets and operations, union, intersection, distributive laws, set difference, De Morgan's laws, Cartesian product Scb2 Vid2
3 Aug 26 problem on Cartesian product, families of sets, set operations over families, functions, composition, pre/image Scb3 Vid3
4 Aug 28 pre/images commute with \(\cup,\cap\) or not (for \(\cap\)), injective, surjective \(f\)'s, relation, equivalence relation, partition Scb4 Vid4
5 Sep   2 \(\{[x]\}_{x \in X}\) under \(\sim\) partitions \(X\), equivalence classes of fruits, countability, Cartesian product of countable sets Scb5 Vid5
6 Sep   4 \(\mathbb{Q}\) is countable, \(\mathbb{R}\) is uncountable, triangle inequality (two versions), convergence, \(\{x_n\}\)\(\to\)\(a \Rightarrow\)\( \{Mx_n\}\)\( \to\)\( Ma\) Scb6 Vid6
7 Sep   9 convergence in \(\mathbb{R}^m\), continuity, \(f_i\) continuous \(\Rightarrow f_1 + f_2 - f_3\) is, \(g(x)\) continuous & \(g(a) \neq 0 \Rightarrow 1/g(x)\) is Scb7 Vid7
8 Sep 11 completeness, bounded set, \(\mathbb{R}\) complete but \(\mathbb{Q}\) is not, monotone/bounded sequence, sup, inf, lim sup, lim inf Scb8 Vid8
9 Sep 16 \(\lim\sup\)\(/\)\(\inf a_n\)\(=\)\(b\)\(\Leftrightarrow\)\(\lim a_n\)\(=\)\(b\), Cauchy sequences, continuity with sequences, intermediate value theorem (IVT) Scb9 Vid9
10 Sep 18 proof of the IVT, subsequence, Bolzano-Weierstrass (BW) theorem in \(\mathbb{R}\), extreme value theorem (EVT) Scb10 Vid10
11 Sep 23 Rolle's theorem, mean value theorem:\(\,\exists c \in [a,b]\)\(\,:\,\)\(f'(c)\)\(=\)\((f(b)-f(a)/(b-a)\), metric spaces, taxicab distance Scb11 Vid11
12 Sep 25 metric must be finite (\(d(x,y)\)\(<\)\(\infty\)), metric spaces examples, distance between functions, isometry, embedding Scb12 Vid12
13 Sep 30 convergence in a metric space, \(\epsilon\)-\(\delta\) & open ball definitions of continuity of \(f : X \to Y,\) discrete metric space Scb13 Vid13
14 Oct   2 interior, boundary, & exterior points; open and closed sets, interior \(A^{\circ}\) and closure \(\bar{A}\) of set \(A\), midterm review Scb14 Vid14
15 Oct   7 Midterm exam
16 Oct   9 \(\overline{B}(\mathbf{a};r)\) closed, \((\bar{A})^{\rm c}\)\(=\)\((A^c)^{\rm o}\), continuity w/ open sets: \(\forall V\)\(\ni\)\( f(x_0), \exists U\)\(\ni\)\(x_0 : f(U) \subseteq V\), convergent\(\Rightarrow\)Cauchy Scb16 Vid16
17 Oct 14 complete metric spaces, \((A,d_A)\) complete\(\Leftrightarrow\)\(A \subset X\) closed, contraction, Banach's fixed point theorem (BFPT) Scb17 Vid17
18 Oct 16 BFPT problem, subsequence in \((X,d)\), compact subset of \((X,d)\), compact\(\Rightarrow\)closed & bounded, converse in \(\mathbb{R}^m\) Scb18 Vid18
19 Oct 21 compact \(\Rightarrow\) complete, compact sets under continuous \(f, f^{-1}\), EVT, \(K\) cpct \(\Rightarrow\)\(f^{-1}(K)\) closed, totally bounded Scb19 Vid19
20 Oct 23 totally bounded\(\Rightarrow\)bounded, open cover property (OCP), OCP\(\Rightarrow\)compact, \(f(x)\)\(=\)\(\sup\{r|B(x,r) \subset O\}\) continuous Scb20 Vid20
21 Oct 28 OCP\(\Leftrightarrow\)compact, proof, problems using OCP, pointwise and uniform continuity (same \(\delta\) for all \(x\)) of functions Scb21 Vid21
22 Oct 30 equicontinuous, \(\{f_n\}\) pointwise/uniform convergence, continuous \(\{f_n(x)\}\)\(\to\)\(f(x)\) uniformly\(\Rightarrow\)\(f(x)\) continuous Scb22 Vid22
23 Nov  4 test for uniform convergence, \(\{\int f_n(x)\} \to \int f(x)\), convergence of series of functions, Weierstrass' M-test Scb23 Vid23
24 Nov  6 differentiating series, space of bounded functions \(B((X,Y),\rho)\), \(\rho(f,g) < \infty\), convergence in \(B((X,y),\rho)\) Scb24 Vid24
Nov 11 No class (Veterans Day)
25 Nov 13 \(B(X,Y)\) complete when \(Y\) is, \(C_b(X,Y)\)\(\subseteq\)\(B(X,Y)\) & closed, \(X\) compact\(\Rightarrow\) continuous \(f:\)\(X \to Y\) is bounded Scb25 Vid25
26 Nov 18 Application to diff eqns, initial value problem (IVP), uniformly Lipschitz, BFPT for IVP, multiple solutions to IVP Scb26 Vid26
27 Nov 20 dense subset, countable+dense subset\(\Rightarrow\)separable, \(\mathbb{R}^n\) separable, compact\(\Rightarrow\)separable, Arzelà-Ascoli thm (AAT) Scb27 Vid27
28 Dec   2 AAT applications: \(K\)\(\subseteq\)\(C(X,\mathbb{R}^m)\) compact\(\Leftrightarrow\)closed, bounded, & equicontinuous, \(C([0,1],\mathbb{R})\) not locally compact Scb28 Vid28
29 Dec   4 Cauchy-Schwarz inequality (CSI), \(\Delta\)-inequality using CSI, equality in \(\Delta\)-ineq, Young's inequality, convex function Scb29 Vid29


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