2022 Fall Course Syllabus - Mathematics 8041.002

Course: Mathematics 8041.002.

Course Title: Real Analysis I.

Credits: 3. credits.

How this course will be taught: in-person.

Time: MW 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM.

Place: WCHMAN 527.

Instructor: Irina Mitrea.

Instructor Office: WCHMAN 1020.

Instructor Email: imitrea@temple.edu

Instructor Phone: (215) 204-6741.

Course Web Page: N/A

Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM or by appointment.

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of real variables and Euclidean topology, sequences of functions, Riemann integration.

Course Materials: Textbook: W. Rudin, Real and Complex Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 3rd edition, 1987.

Course Goals: Course goals include increasing the student's knowledge in Analysis, their ability to understand definitions, understand and construct proofs, analyze conjectures find counter-examples to false statements, construct proofs of true statements. After completing this course, students will:

(1) Have gained a thorough grounding in modern Real Analysis

(2) Be able to comprehend and critically reflect on mathematical statements and their proofs and to write their own formal proofs of mathematical results

(3) Have developed a higher capacity for abstract and rigorous mathematical reasoning

(4) Be well-equipped to study advanced applications of Real Analysis in other disciplines.

Topics Covered: After a quick prelude in topological spaces, Math 8041 focuses on abstract measure theory. Time permitting, topics covered are abstract outer measures and measures, sigma algebras, singular measures, completion and regularity of measures, absolute continuity, Caratheodory's measurability criterion, Caratheodory's construction of a measure from an outer measure, Lebesgue spaces, Holder's Minkowski's and Jensen's inequalities, completness, pointwise convergence , Lebesgue Monotone and Dominated Convergence Theorems, Fatou's Lemma, integration of series of functions, convergence in measure, Lusin's and Egorov's Theorems, integration on product spaces, Fubini and Tonelli's Theorems, Radon-Nikodym's Theorems, duals of Lebesgue spaces.

Course Grading: Prelims count for 25% each, the final counts for 25%, the quizzes count for 10%, and homework counts for 15%. The grading scale is A: 90-100; B: 80-89; C: 70-79; D 60-69; F: 60.

Exam Dates:    Midterm I: Wednesday, October 5th

   Midterm II: Wednesday, November 16th

   Final: Friday, December 9th 10:30 AM -12:30 PM.

Attendance Policy: You are expected to attend class. If you have an excuse for missing a class, please let me know. If you have 4 or more unexcused absences, your grade will drop half a notch (e.g. B to B-) for each 4 classes you miss.

Attendance and Your Health: To achieve course learning goals, students must attend and participate in classes, according to your instructors' requirements. However, if you feel unwell or if you are under quarantine or in isolation because you have been exposed to the virus or tested positive for it, you should not come to campus or attend in-person classes or activities. Students have the responsibility to contact their instructors to create a plan for participation and engagement in the course as soon as they are able to do so and to make a plan to complete all assignments in a timely fashion when illness delays their completion.

Quizzes: There will be a short quiz every Wednesday, unless otherwise announced. It will be returned to you on Monday.

Homework: To be handed in during the Monday lecture meeting. Do all problems assigned and make sure that your work is legible. No late homework will be accepted. You may work cooperatively on assignments provided:

   You write the solution yourself

   You include a note with your homework indicating the names of anyone you have worked with.

Disability Statement: Any student who has a need for accommodations based on the impact of a documented disability or medical condition should contact Disability Resources and Services (DRS) in Howard Gittis Student Center South, Rm 420 (drs@temple.edu; 215-204-1280) to request accommodations and learn more about the resources available to you. If you have a DRS accommodation letter to share with me, or you would like to discuss your accommodations, please contact me as soon as practical. I will work with you and with DRS to coordinate reasonable accommodations for all students with documented disabilities. All discussions related to your accommodations will be confidential.

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Incomplete Policy: The grade "I" (an "incomplete") is only given if students cannot complete the course work due to circumstances beyond their control. It is necessary for the student to have completed the majority of the course work with a passing average and to sign an incomplete contract which clearly states what is left for the student to do and the deadline by which the work must be completed. The incomplete contract must also include a default grade that will be used in case the "I" grade is not resolved by the agreed deadline. See the full policy by clicking here (opens in new tab/window).

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