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


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