MA 511 B, Analysis I, Fall 24

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"It is the pathologies that give rise to the need for rigor." - Stephen Abbott

"Analysis is the art of estimation." - Unknown

This image is of the Weierstrass function, a continuous function that is nowhere differentiable! We will learn about this beast, and other curious creatures, this semester.

Logistics

Syllabus: Please see this document for details that are not listed on this website.
Meetings: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11am - 12:15pm, in PRB 146, and Thursdays, 3:25-4:25pm, in COM 213.
Instructor: Margaret Beck (she/her); mabeck@bu.edu; you're welcome to call me Margaret or Professor Beck.
Student hours: (i) Mondays, 1030am-12pm: drop in, CDS 537; (ii) Thursdays, 130-3pm: scheduled one-on-one 10-minute appointments, in CDS 537 or on Zoom. Use this link to schedule a time for an in-person or zoom meeting. If you would like to speak with me for longer than 10 minutes, you are welcome to schedule multiple, back-to-back, appointments. You can schedule appointments up to 14 days in advance.
Textbook: Understanding Analysis, by Stephen Abbott. You should be able to access a free pdf of this book through the BU library.
Changes: I reserve the right to change any aspect of this course to better meet the needs of students. Should this become necessary, it will be clearly documented and students will be given sufficient notice so they may adapt accordingly.

Assessments and Grading

For more details, please see the syllabus.

Midterm oral exam information

Final oral exam information

Schedule and list of homework assignments

Please note that the weekly topics are tentative, and they may be adjusted as the semester progresses. However, they and the HW assignments will be finalized at least one week in advance. I am including links to the tex files of the HW assignments; if you want to type up your solutions in LaTeX, you can upload the tex file for the HW assignment to overleaf and then type your solutions directly into the file. That way you will have the problems themselves included in your write-up, without having to type them out yourself. It will also give you a way of seeing more examples of how I type various math expressions in LaTeX.