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The instructor for MAT203ABC this year is Albert Fannjiang (email: fannjian@math.ucdavis.edu, homepage: http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~fannjian/). Please direct all your questions about the course to him. Here is the latest version of the lectures notes for MAT203 by John Hunter and Bruno Nachtergaele. We welcome your comments about the notes. Send them to hunter@math.ucdavis.edu or bxn@math.ucdavis.edu. You can download, view, and/or print the postscript files.

Table of Contents.
List of Figures.
Chapter 1: The real numbers as a metric space.
Chapter 2: Continuous functions.
Chapter 3: Topological spaces.
Chapter 4: Completeness and the Contraction Mapping Theorem.
Chapter 5: Applications of the Contraction Mapping Theorem.
Chapter 6: Banach spaces.
Chapter 7: Hilbert Spaces.
Chapter 8: Special orthonormal bases 1. Fourier series.
Chapter 9: The heat/diffusion equation.
Chapter 10: Special orthonormal bases 2. Wavelets.
Chapter 11: Linear operators on a Hilbert space.
Chapter 12: Linear functionals on a Hilbert space.
Chapter 13: The spectrum of bounded linear operators.
Chapter 14: The spectral theorem for compact self-adjoint operators.
Chapter 15: Examples of compact linear operators.
Chapter 16: Applications of the spectral theorem.
Chapter 17: Unbounded linear operators and Green's functions.
Chapter 18: Distributions.
Chapter 19: The Fourier Transform.
Chapter 20: Applications of the Fourier Transform.
Chapter 21: Measure and Integration.
Chapter 22: $L^p$ spaces.
Chapter 23: Sobolev Spaces.
Chapter 24: Differential Calculus.
Index.
All of the above combined in one ps file.

Of potential interest:

The following work in progress by Charles Wells is a dictionary of "Mathematical English": The Handbook of Mathematical Discourse.

Assignments for MAT203ABC, 1996-1998:

MAT203A:  Assignments for MAT203A (Fall 1996 and 1997) are here: MAT203A handouts .
MAT203B:  Assignments for MAT203B (Winter 1997 and 1998) are here: MAT203B handouts .
MAT203C:  Assignments for MAT203C (Spring 1997 and 1998) are here: MAT203C handouts .