Math 103 Topics in Analysis

Text: W. Rudin: Real & Complex Analysis.

Meets MWF 8:459:50
Choate House Seminar Room
While the content of Math 103 will depend on the interests and backgrounds
of those enrolling, I hope to give a course which will help students prepare for
the analysis certication examination. At present, Im planning to start with
abstract measure theory loosely following chapters 1, 2, 6, and 8 of the text. We
will nish with a review of the theory of functions of a single complex variable
loosely following chapters 10, 11, 12, and 14 in the text.
Familiarity with the Lesbegue integral on the real line would be very helpful
as would an elementary course in complex variables. However, neither is re-
quired for Math 103 (although each is an essential part of the certication syl-
labus). Ideally, prospective students should have had undergraduate courses in
both abstract analysis (e.g., Math 63), and in complex analysis (e.g., Math 43).
In particular, students will nd Chapters 14 of Roydens Real Analysis and
Churchill and Browns Complex variables and applications (or any comparable
book) to be excellent supplementary texts.
The pace will be fast as we can manage, and the students will be expected
to ll in considerable detail on their own. The goal is to help prepare graduate
students to take (and to pass) the certication exam at or near the end of the
winter term.
Dana P. Williams
201 Choate House
6-2990
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~m103f99