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Math 131B: Analysis, Fall 2016

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No homework for this week. The next homework set will be due on Friday November 18th.
The second midterm is done! The questions are here., as mentioned earlier, you may add these as extra homework problems to improve your grade on the midterm. Deadline for returns is Monday November 14th.
I'm going to be travelling for a bit, and so for the lectures on Friday 28th, Monday 31st and Wednesday 2nd you will have substitute teacher, my office mate Professor David W Taylor. Be nice!
After I return from my trip, the lecture we have on Friday, November 4th will be used (mostly) for review since the second midterm will be on November 7th. For the second midterm you should understand, from Tao's book, from Section 3.2. (Pointwise and uniform convergence) up to and including Section 4.2. (Real analytic functions). I will give a more detailed list of topics later on.
The first midterm is done! The questions are here., as mentioned earlier, you may add these as extra homework problems to improve your grade on the midterm. The grading is ongoing.
Here is the promised list containing a rough outline on what topics you should be able to handle in the midterm. (Again, more or less, we have covered everythin in Tao's book up until the end of section 2.3. Continuity and compactness.) Connectedness will not be in the midterm! In the midterm, no books, calculators, phones, etc. are to be used.
The first midterm is next monday on October 17th. I will write a formal list of things we have covered on Wednesday after I see how far we get. (More or less, we have covered everythin in Tao's book up until the end of section 2.3. Continuity and compactness.) For a list of practice problems, see here.
The discussion session on Thursday September 22 will be held as a lecture. We will (mostly) go through practical matters.

Course info

Course Blog can be found from here.

A constantly updating schedule for the course is here. (The subjects of each week are very preliminary.)

Time and place: Lectures on MWF, 9am-9:50am, MS 6627. Discussion session Thursdays 9am-9:50am, MS 6627.

Instructor: Rami Luisto

Office: MS 6617B
Office hours: TBA.
E-mail: luisto at math.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 344-7665

TA: David Jekel, davidjekel at gmail dot com. TA office hours Wed 2.30-4.00 at MS 2953.

Quizzes: Each lecture will begin with a 5 minute quiz. The question of the quiz will be announced at least a few days in advance and will always be of the form of "What is the definition of X?" or "What is the statement of Theorem X?", where X will be one of the topics of the lecture. For example on Lecture 0 on Friday, September 23rd the question will be "What is the definition of a metric?". The answer can always be found from the course book, and almost always from Wikipedia.

Homework: Problem sets will appear here, usually on Friday noon, and they should be returned at latest at the next friday lecture. There will be, on average, six problems per homework set. From this six problems, on average, three will be graded.

Course material: Terence Tao: Analysis II (Chapters 1 - X). The main three topics are Metric Spaces, Power series & Friends, and Fourier analysis. If you feel that the book is too dense, you might want to borrow Elementary Analysis by Kenneth Ross. It covers, more or less, the first 6-ish weeks of our course.

Prerequisites: courses 33B, 115A, 131A.

Grading: Either 15%HW + 5%Quizzes + 20%Midterm1 + 20%Midterm2 + 40%Final OR 25%Midterm1 + 25%Midterm2 + 50%Final

Midterms and Final: Midterms on the mondays of 4th and 7th weeks. Final on December 8th at 8:00 - 11:00 AM in MS 6627.

On midterms the use of calculators, books, notes or phones is not allowed.

There are not make-up midterms. The date and final exam cannot be changed: you must attend the final exam in order to pass the class.

Academic integrity: Please review the regulations at the following website: http://www.deanofstudents.ucla.edu/Student-Conduct.