MCS 331 Assignments

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 date
F 9/7 B 1.1 What brought on the crisis?
Describe the illustrative problem.
1.1.2
1.1.3
Assume calculus theorems.
OK to skip #3's psi case.
M 9/10
F 9/7 B 1.2 Where do (1.15)
and (1.16) come from?
1.2.2, 1.2.3 Routine calculation M 9/10
M 9/10 B 2.1
B 2.2
Avoiding infinite series
Newton on Pi
2.1.5
2.2.11, 2.2.20
  M 9/17
W 9/12 B 2.3 Logarithms, harmonic series 2.3.1, 2.3.9   M 9/17
F 9/14 B2.4
B 2.5
Taylor series
Emerging doubts
2.4.1, 2.4.6, 2.4.11   M 9/17
M 9/17 S 3.9-11
S 7
Metrics, metric spaces
Cauchy sequences
Equivalence classes
J(f-g) is a metric
7-1, 7-2
The metric space concept abstracts key properties of the real number system. W 9/26
W 9/19 S 8 The real number system 8-5, 8-7   W 9/26
F 9/21          
M 9/24 S 9-10 Completeness properties of R
Extended real line
9-4, 9-9
Ex Cr
  M 10/1
W 9/26 S 17 "Nowhere dense" etc.: Fri. 17-1 plus Neat NASC for A
to be dense in X
M 10/1
F 9/28 S 18 Heine-Borel theorem
p. 130: Jon & Ben
p. 131: Erik & Eric
18-14 Memorable
Insert "relatively" before "closed".
M 10/1
M 10/1 S 19 Open sets 19-1   F 10/5
W 10/3 S 20
S 21
Perfect sets
Fractal space
Extra credit Curiosity required
F 10/5 S 22 Connected sets      
M 10/8 Review Bressoud chs. 1-2
Sprecher chs. 3, 5
In-class test
Take-out test
Concepts & theorems
Problems
M 10/8
W 10/10
W 10/10
F 10/12
B 3.1
B 3.2
Newton-Raphson method
Differentiability
3.1.2, 3.1.12
3.2.6
Answers W 10/17
M 10/15 B 3.4 Continuity 3.4: #14, 22, 23, 25, 26 Most should be easy.
#25 graphs
W 10/24
W 10/17 B 3.3 East team: JM, EP, ET
SW team: AG, KP, BS
NW team: JH, SH, MS
3.3.1
3.3.12
3.3.14
Where does proof fail?
Nbhd = (B,infinity)
Use L'Hospital's (3.48).
W 10/17
  B 3.3 Taylor's theorem
Two remainders
3.3.2, 3.3.17
Prove (3.56-57)
 
p. 86
W 10/24
W 10/24 B 3.5 Consequences of continuity 3.5.5,
3.5.7, 3.5.8
10-24-1
Part of BIG THEOREM
Cf. Thms 3.6-7
Cf. Ex. 3.1.12
F 11/2
F 10/26 S 23-27 Continuity
esp. uniform continuity
Prove Thm 27.4 without the Lebesgue
Covering Theorem
F 11/2
M 10/29 S 28-31 Differentiability 10-30-1 This is extra credit. M 11/5
W 10/31 B 4.1 Convergence/divergence
of infinite series:
The basic tests
4.1.20, 4.1.21, 4.1.25
10-29-1
Study pp. 125-126. F 11/2
F 11/2 B 4.2 Series of functions 4.2.3, 4.2.5
11-2-1
Hints
You may assume Stirling's approx. F 11/9
M 11/5 B 4.3 Gauss's test 11-5-1 A part of Gauss's proof F 11/9
W 11/7 B 4.4 Finer tests Extra credit Suggested 4.4 problems: 3, 5-8, 10-12  
F 11/9 B 4.3 Hypergeometric series
Gauss's tests
Review
4.3.1, 4.3.3, 4.3.7 Each team does all problems.
Teams may divide the work.
Make presentations on Fri.
F 11/9
M 11/12 B 4.5
Review
Abel's lemma
Dirichlet's test
     
W 11/14 Review Exam 2a
Bressoud chs. 3-4
Sprecher chs. 6-7, 4
Exam 2b Problems on
Bressoud chs. 3-4
Sprecher chs. 6-7, 4
F 11/16
F 11/16 B 5.1 Weird series phenomena 5.1.12
11-16-1
Class notes W 11/21
M 11/19 B 5.2 Infinite sums of continuous functions      
W 11/21 B 5.2
B 5.3
Interchanging limits 4.5.12, 5.2.8   F 11/30
M 11/26 B 5.3
B 5.4
Integrating infinite sums
Weierstrass M-test
5.3.6
Ex. Cr.:5.3.2-5
 33-11, 33-12 F 11/30
W 11/28 B 5.4
S 32
Verifying uniform convergence 5.4.7 Metric version of uniform convergence F 12/7
F 11/30 S 35
pp. 227-230
Weierstrass Approximation Theorem Proof
in class
Class project
See 11/26 assignment
F 11/30
M 12/3 B 6.1 Fourier series:
Dirichlet's theorem
6.1.5, 6.1.10, 6.1.13 Comment on the relevance of each problem to Dirichlet's theorem. M 12/10
W 12/5 B 6.2 The Cauchy integral 6.2.11 You'll prove the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. M 12/10
F 12/7 B 6.3 The Riemann integral      
M 12/10   Various integrals Extra credit See class notes M 12/17
W 12/12   Review      

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