MA 411. Advanced Calculus

  • General Information

    • Time: Tue. & Thu. 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM

    • Place: KCB 106

    • Prerequisite: MA 225 or 230, MA 242 or 442

    • Text book: R. Wrede, M. Spiegel, Advanced Calculus (Schaums Outline Series), 3rd Ed. McGraw-Hill. ISBN:978-0-07-162366-7.

    • Course description

    • Syllabus


  • Instructor: Yoosik Kim

    • Email: yoosik (at) bu (dot) edu

    • Office hours (MCS 237B): Mon. 3 PM - 5 PM , Thu 11 AM - 12 PM, or by appointment

  • Lecture notes - The handwritten notes might be incomplete.

    • Lecture 1 - Review of Taylor series

    • Lecture 2 - Fourier series

    • Lecture 3 - Fourier cosine and sine series

    • Lecture 4 - Fourier convergence theorem

    • Lecture 5 - Parseval's identity, mathematical definition of limits of sequences

    • Lecture 6, 7 - Review of sequence and series of numbers.

    • Lecture 8 - Pointwise convergence of sequences and series of functions

    • Lecture 9 - Uniform convergence of sequences of functions

    • Lecture 10 - Properties of uniform convergences

    • Lecture 11 - Weierstrass M-test, Power series

    • Lecture 12 - Pointwise convergence and uniform convergence of Fourier series

    • Supplementary notes - Proof of pointwise convergence of Fourier series

    • Lecture 13 - Integration and differentiation of Fourier series

    • Lecture 14 - Complex form of Fourier series

    • Lecture 16 - Fourier transforms, Fourier integral theorem, Parseval's identity

    • Lecture 15 - Gamma and beta functions

    • Lecture 17 - Differentiation of functions of several variables

    • Lecture 18 - Jacobian matrices, Chain rule

    • Lecture 19 - Inverse and implicit function theorem

    • Lecture 20 - Review of eigenvalues, positive and negative definite matrices

    • Lecture 21 - Hessian matrices, local maxima and minima

    • Lecture 22 - Multiple integrals, change of variables and Jacobians


  • Exams

    • The midterm exam (Oct. 30th) - Prob/Sol

    • The final exam - Dec. 18th from 9 am to 11 am - Prob/Sol