Announcements

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• The final exam is on Tuesday, December 11, 1-3 p.m. Topics to review. For preparation, review all the homework problems, and make sure you know how to do all of them. Talk to each other, read solutions, talk to the instructor. A practice exam is posted on eCampus.
• Handout on the properties of limits of functions.
• Handout on the axioms of the real numbers.

Homework

• Homework 11, for practice only.
• Homework 10, due November 29. Partial solutions are posted on eCampus.
• Homework 9, due November 15. Partial solutions are posted on eCampus.
• Homework 8, due November 8. Partial solutions are posted on eCampus.


• The second exam was Thursday, November 1, in class. It covered Sections 2.12, 4.1-4.5.1, 5.1-5.2, 5.4-5.8 of the textbook (topics to concentrate on). The median was 93. Solutions are posted on eCampus.


• Homework, for practice only.
  • Read sections 5.4-5.9, especially the examples.
  • Section 5.4, problems 17, 20.
  • Section 5.5, problems 2, 3.
  • Section 5.6, problems 3, 8, 9.
  • Section 5.7, problems 1, 2, 6.
  • Section 5.8, problems 1, 5, 6.
  • Section 5.10, problems 7**.
• Homework 7, due October 25. Partial solutions are posted on eCampus.
• Homework 6, due October 18. Partial solutions are posted on eCampus.
  • Read sections 4.5, 4.6, 5.1, especially the examples.
  • Section 4.5, problems 1*, 5*, 9* (hard), 10, 14, 17.
  • Section 5.1, problems 4, 16, 19, 26, 27, 28, 29 (provide justifications but not necessarily a full proof).
  • In Exercise 5 from Homework 5, also answer the following question: (g) Show that if A, B are two disjoint closed sets one of which is compact, then the distance between them is positive.
• Homework 5, due October 11. Partial solutions are posted on eCampus.
• Homework 4, due October 4.
  • Read sections 2.9-2.13, 4.1-4.3, especially the examples.
  • Section 2.11, problems 3, 6, 8*, 15, 20.
  • Section 2.12, problems 5*, 6.
  • Section 2.14, problem 13**.
  • Section 4.2, problems 1(c,d,f,g,h), 2*, 14, 20, 23, 24.
  
  
• The first exam was Thursday, September 27, in class. It covered Chapter 1 and Sections 2.1-2.11 of the textbook. The final mean was 69. Solutions are posted on eCampus.


• Homework, for practice only.
  • Read sections 2.8-2.13, especially all the many examples.
  • Section 2.9, problems 1 (a-d), 4.
  • Section 2.11, problems 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 15, 20.
• Homework 3, due September 20. Partial solutions are posted on eCampus.
• Homework 2, due September 13. Partial solutions are posted on eCampus.
  • Read sections 2.1-2.7, especially Section 2.1, Example 2.3, Theorem 2.4, Example 2.7.
  • Section 2.2, problems 3*, 8, 9 (use problem 8). Optional: can you generalize these two problems?
  • Section 2.4, problems 2, 3, 5, 12, 13, 15, 16*.
  • Section 2.14, problem 2** (show me your solution if you try this).
• Homework 1, due September 6. Partial solutions are posted on eCampus.

Links Help Sessions (MW 8-10 p.m. in BLOC 202) First day handout Handout on projects Professor: Michael Anshelevich, Blocker 533D. Office hours: TW 10-11:30 a.m. (subject to change later in the semester), or by appointment. Textbook: Thomson/Bruckner/Bruckner, Elementary Real Analysis, 2st ed. (2008), volume I. Available for purchase or download. Student rules: University-approved excuses and attendance, scholastic dishonesty.