Department Syllabus
MAT 201A: Analysis
| When taught: |
Fall, every year |
| Suggested text: |
Applied Analysis by Hunter and Nachtergaele, Chapters 1, 3-6. Available here: (http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~hunter/book/pdfbook.html) |
| Units/lectures: |
4 units; lecture/discussion section |
| Prerequisites: |
Graduate standing in Mathematics or Applied Mathematics, or consent of instructor |
Course description
Metric and normed spaces. Continuous functions. Topological, Hilbert, and Banach spaces. Fourier series. Spectrum of bounded and compact linear operators. Linear differential operators and Green's functions. Distributions. Fourier transform. Measure theory. Lp and Sobolev spaces. Differential calculus and variational methods.
Suggested schedule
| Prepared by: Steve Shkoller |
| Approved by GPC: November 2010 |
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Topics/Comments |
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Each topic requires approximately 2 weeks to cover | Chapters 1, 2, and 4-6. |
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Metric and normed spaces (review): Metrics, norms, limits, liminf, limsup; Pointwise, uniform, and norm convergence; Continuity and completeness; Compactness in finite-dimensions; Compact and locally compact spaces.
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Spaces of continuous functions: Definition of spaces; Convergence in the uniform topology; Tychonoff's Theorem; Arzela-Ascoli Theorem; Stone-Weierstrass Theorem
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Topological spaces: Definition of topological spaces; Bases of open sets; Comparing topologies
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Banach spaces: Normed vector spaces; Linear functionals and bounded linear maps; The kernel and range of linear maps; Convergence in the space of bounded linear operators; Dual spaces
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Hilbert spaces: Inner products; Orthogonality and projections; Orthonormal bases; Applications
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