Math 395, Fall 2010. Honors Analysis I

My office is 4859 East Hall, and my office hours are Tuesdays 2-5pm and by appointment.
The class meets on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 1pm-2pm.
The MWF classes meet in room 130
, and the Tuesday classes meet in room 337, of the David M. Dennison Building.

The course assistant is David Montague, continuing from last year.
His office hours are on Thursdays, 5-6pm (exception: 6-7pm on September 16), in 3866 East Hall.
His review sessions are on Mondays, 5-6pm, in 3866 East Hall.

Syllabus in PDF
Final grade policies in PDF

The take-home midterm is scheduled for October 22-25.
The take-home final is scheduled for December 10-13.





Exams

Take-home midterm in PDF
Midterm solutions in PDF

Take-home final exam in PDF
Final exam solutions in PDF



Homeworks

Homework 1 (due Friday, September 17, at the beginning of class) in PDF
Solutions to Homework 1 in PDF
Homework 2 (due Friday, September 24, at the beginning of class) in PDF
Solutions to Homework 2 in PDF
Homework 3 (due Friday, October 1, at the beginning of class) in PDF
Solutions to Homework 3 in PDF
Homework 4 (due Friday, October 15, at the beginning of class) in PDF
Solutions to Homework 4 in PDF
Extra credit problem set in PDF
Homework 5 (due
Friday, October 29, at the beginning of class) in PDF
Solutions to Homework 5 in PDF
Homework 6 (due
Friday, November 5, at the beginning of class) in PDF
Solutions to Homework 6 in PDF
Homework 7 (due Friday, November 12, at the beginning of class) in PDF
Solutions to Homework 7 in PDF
Homework 8 (due Friday, November 19, at the beginning of class) in PDF
Solutions to Homework 8 in PDF
Homework 9 (due Friday, December 3, at the beginning of class) in PDF
Solutions to Homework 9 in PDF
Homework 10 (due Friday, December 10, at the beginning of class) in PDF
Solutions to Homework 10 in PDF



Lecture summaries (arranged by week)


Preliminaries in PDF
  1. Introduction to measure theory and integration (week of September 7)
    • Notes on measure spaces in PDF
       
  2. Definition and basic properties of integrals (week of September 13)
    • Definition of the integral in PDF
    • Basic properties of integrals ( PDF )
    • Limit theorems in integration theory ( PDF )
       
  3. Product measures and Fubini's theorem (week of September 20)
    • Introduction to Fubini's theorem and Dynkin's lemma ( PDF )
    • Statement of Fubini's theorem ( PDF )
    • Proof of Fubini's theorem ( PDF )
       
  4. More on Fubini's theorem (week of September 27)
    • Most of this week was devoted to explaining the details of
      the proof of Fubini's theorem in class.
    • No notes for this week will be posted.
       
  5. Construction and main properties of the Lebesgue measure (week of October 4)
    • Construction of the Lebesgue measure ( PDF )
       
  6. Introduction to topological spaces and metric spaces (week of October 11)
    • Notes on topological and metric spaces in PDF
    • Some counterexamples in topology in PDF
       
  7. Regularity properties of measures (week of October 20 and 22)
    • Notes on regularity of measures in PDF
       
  8. Integral inequalities and L^p spaces (week of October 25)
    • Statements of Jensen's, Hölder's and Minkowski's inequalities in PDF
    • Proof of Minkowski's inequality in PDF
    • Definition of L^p spaces and proof of completeness in PDF
       
  9. Introduction to Fourier Analysis (week of November 1)
    • Part of the week was devoted to the definition of Fourier transforms
      and proving its basic properties (Riemann-Lebesgue Lemma).
    • We also started discussing orthonormal bases in Hilbert spaces.
    • Notes on real and complex measures in PDF (these notes are not
      directly related to Fourier analysis, but Theorem 15.1 in the notes
      -- the Radon-Nikodym theorem for complex measures -- is very
      useful for two of this week's homework problems.
       
  10. Fourier series: definitions and main results (week of November 8)
    • Notes on the structure of Hilbert spaces in PDF
    • Introduction to Fourier series in PDF
       
  11. Applications of approximation techniques (week of November 15)
    • Introduction to Fourier transforms in PDF
    • Notes on convolutions and applications in PDF
       
  12. Proofs of some fundamental results on Fourier transforms (week of November 22)
    • Notes on Shwartz functions, Fourier inversion and Fourier transforms for L^2 in PDF
    • Happy Thanksgiving!
       
  13. More proofs of theorems about Fourier transforms (week of November 29)
    • The notes for this week are contained in the previous link
       
  14. Contour integration and calculation of Fourier transforms (week of December 6)
    • Notes on contour integration in PDF