Prerequisites and a short description

• Prerequisite: high level of performance in MATH 221-222, 223-224, or 192 and 294 and familiarity with proofs
• Description: Introduction to the rigorous theory underlying calculus, covering the real number system and functions of one variable. Based entirely on proofs. The student is expected to know how to read and, to some extent, construct proofs before taking this course. Topics typically include construction of the real number system, properties of the real number system, continuous functions, differential and integral calculus of functions of one variable, sequences and series of functions.

Course information at a glance

• Meeting times: TR 08:40-09:55 a.m., MT 203
• Instructor: Dr. Richard Vale, My email address: rvale@math etc. Office hours: Thurs 14:00-16:00 Tuesday 1:30-3:30 MT 583, and by appointment. (Office hours have been changed in response to popular demand. However, if you want to come to the old office hours, I am still likely to be there on Thursdays.)
• TA: Ri-Xiang Chen, rxc@math etc. Office hours Wed 12:00-14:00 in MT 218
• Textbook: Robert Strichartz, The Way of Analysis (revised edition), Jones and Bartlett, 2000 (ISBN: 0-7637-1497-6)
• Homework News: homework will now be due on Thursdays. In particular, homework 3 is due Thursday February 21 (so you have 2 extra days) and homework 4 is due Thursday Feb. 28.
• Syllabus information
• A list of revision questions on things to which you should have been exposed in previous courses.
• Blackboard
• Final exam:
  • 13 May; more details to come.
• Prelims:
  • News: there was a prelim in class on Tuesday 11 March. Here is the prelim and the solutions. Here is a practice paper and the solutions.
  • No homework will be due on Thursday 13 March, but there will be homework due on Thursday 27 March (the first Thursday after Spring Break).
  • News: Prelim 2 was handed out in class on Tuesday 8 April and is due on 17 April.