Math 425 - Fundamental Concepts of Analysis II

See UW General Catalog for course description and prerequisite information.

Textbook

• Principles of Mathematical Analysis (Third Edition) by Walter Rudin

Suggested Syllabus

Metric Spaces

• Euclidean space, metric spaces
• open and closed sets, interiors, closures
• compactness, sequential compactness, Heine-Borel Theorem
• connectedness, intervals
• completeness of metric spaces and of the Euclidean space

Continuous Functions of Metric Spaces

• epsilon-delta and sequence definitions of limits, properties
• continuity of functions between metric spaces
• continuity and connectedness
• continuity and compactness
• Extreme Value Theorem
• uniform continuity of continuous maps of compact spaces

Functions of Several Variables

• Normed linear spaces, completeness of C(X)
• L(Rⁿ,R^m) with the sup norm
• continuity of the inversion map
• definition of the derivative and necessity of continuity
• chain rule, partial derivatives and matrix representation of the derivative
• characterization of C¹ functions
• Mean Value Theorem
• Inverse Function Theorem
• Contraction Mapping Theorem
• Implicit Function Theorem

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