Math 401 – Advance Calculus I

Syllabus
Professor Terry Loring – Fall 2021

Textbook
Our required text will be ”Analysis With An Introduction to Proof” 5th Edition by Steven R. Lay, ISBN
978-0321747471.

Asynchronous videos before online and in-person discussion

Most of the material you will get from online videos I record and from the text. The intent is that you
view or read as needed before the scheduled time and you ask questions during the scheduled time on
most Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. You may also want to email be questions in advance.

Academic Integrity
Academic honesty is an essential part of academic development. All university policies regarding aca-
demic honesty apply to this course. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating or
copying, plagiarism (claiming credit for the words or works of another from any type of source such as
print, Internet or electronic database, or failing to cite the source), fabricating information or citations,
facilitating acts of academic dishonesty by others, having unauthorized possession of examinations, sub-
mitting work of another person or work previously used without informing the instructor, or tampering
with the academic work of other students. The University’s full statement on academic honesty and the
consequences for failure to comply is available in the college catalog and in the Pathfinder.
On homework I have a specific policy that allows some group collaboration and you need not list the
others in your group unless I have expressed to you a concern.
A particularly troublesome form of misconduct is students posting problems from homework and
exams on online forums. Answers posted there are often seen by other students and this leads to more
trouble. Uploading a homework problem to “The Online Learning Center” is great while posting the
problem to Chegg or MathOverflow is not allowed.
The UNM Online Learning Center is here: https://caps.unm.edu/services/online-tutoring/olc.php

COVID issues
All students, staff, and instructors are required by UNM Administrative Mandate on Required Vacci-
nations to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 as soon as possible, but no later than September 30, 2021,
and must provide proof of vaccination or of a UNM validated limited exemption or exemption no later
than September 30, 2021 to the UNM vaccination verification site. Students seeking medical exemption
from the vaccination policy must submit a request to the UNM verification site for review by the UNM
Accessibility Resource Center. Students seeking religious exemption from the vaccination policy must
submit a request for reasonable accommodation to the UNM verification site for review by the Compli-
ance, Ethics, and Equal Opportunity Office. For further information on the requirement and on limited
exemptions and exemptions, see the UNM Administrative Mandate on Required Vaccinations.
All students, staff, and instructors are required to wear face masks in indoor classes, labs, studios and
meetings on UNM campuses. Qualified music students must follow appropriate specific mask policies
issued by the Chair of the Department of Music and the Dean of the College of Fine Arts. Vaccinated
and unvaccinated instructors teaching in classrooms must wear a mask when entering and leaving the
classroom and when moving around the room. Unvaccinated instructors must wear their masks at all
times. Students who do not wear a mask indoors on UNM campuses can expect to be asked to leave the
classroom and to be dropped from a class if failure to wear a mask occurs more than once in that class.
Students who do not wear a mask in classrooms and other indoor public spaces on UNM campuses are
subject to disciplinary proceedings under the Student Code of Conduct.

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UNM-Learn
If you are new to UNM, you need to get familiar with UNM-Learn. You cannot access any class prior
to the first day of the semester, but you can visit online.unm.edu/help/learn/students for information
on the system.
The Zoom meetings are now integrated with UNM-Learn. Start at
online.unm.edu/help/learn/students/web-conferencing/zoom/index.html
to learn how to get ready for a meeting and how to join a meeting. The system is set to only allow UNM
students, so you cannot join via a private Zoom account.

Asynchronous online discussion with math notation

UNM-Learn has a discussion board that allows for mathematical notation in a few ways. A simple way
to deal with serious math is to write it on paper and attach a PDF file. This can be exclusionary since
images confound text-to-speech systems. On the other hand, working the slow interface to produce
symbols can be exclusionary to others. I need to know what the issues are that arise.

In person discussion
Wednesdays we meeting in person. Except when there is a midterm scheduled, I intend to run these as
a discussion session.

In person Problem Session

This will be on Tuesdays, and will be run by a graduate student.

Quizzes
We will have a quiz many weeks. These will be designed to check if you are keeping up on the reading.

Things that will change as the pandemic changes

We may have a mix of in-person quizzes and online quizzes. This is going to depend on public health
conditions and you need to keep up with the information in UNM-Learn. The time of quizzes and
midterms will always be within the scheduled meeting times so keep these available for this class.

Midterms and Final

These will be traditional, in-person and on paper. The final will just be one hour, so really just another
midterm. The final will not be cumulative.

Grading percentages
ˆ Midterm I 15%

ˆ Midterm II 15%

ˆ Midterm III 15%

ˆ Quizzes 15%

ˆ HW 25%

ˆ Final 15%

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I will be averaging the scores after they have been adjusted to a standard scale. Notice that the quizzes
will be rather shallow in content and are to help you and I understand where you had trouble with recent
videos and text. The Midterms will be on content you have had more time to digest, and will involve
some serious problem solving. The raw scores of these will thus be on very different scales.

Important dates
ˆ Here is where you will be able to find the official schedule of final exams:
http://schedule.unm.edu
ˆ Fall deadlines are available here:
http://registrar.unm.edu/semester-deadline-dates/fall-2021.html

Accommodations
In accordance with University Policies and the Americans with Disabilities Act, academic accommoda-
tions may be made for any student who notifies me of this, directly or via the Accessibility Resource
Center. Timely notification is essential for proper accommodation. The University provides assistance
for temporary disabilities, such as a broken arm. Visit http://arc.unm.edu for details.
I will be posting videos on YouTube, which has auto-generated captions. Like most captioning
systems, this does a terrible job on technical words. Please let me know if this is, or is expected to be,
an issue.

Unexpected Hardships
I am sympathetic toward a student who is unable to take a scheduled test due to a hardship if that
hardship is reported to me in a timely fashion. Let me know of any issues related to both your schedule
and this class (especially the final) within a few days of these being known to you.

University Policies and Resources

Important information is available at the UNM Pathfinder, now only online: pathfinder.unm.edu/. For
example, at this website you will find the UNM policy on academic disputes. Also pointers to counseling
services, crisis centers, academic support services. Pathfinder has some information on policy on sexual
assault reporting obligations, but see also
http://policy.unm.edu/university-policies/2000/2740.html#reporting misconduct.

Office hours
ˆ This class will be on a schedule to be set soon, as a zoom meeting with a waiting room. Details
on this will be available within UNM-learn.
ˆ You can ask for individual or small group consultation, at other times write to loring@math.unm.edu.

Email
Please put “Math 401” somewhere in the subject line for all email to me during the semester. I get a
lot of messages and this will assist me in sorting it all.

Rules on Homework
UNM-learn will be the place you find the assignments and, about a week later, upload them. The
uploads will need to be as a single PDF file, to facilitate grading. This has the advantage that you will
have access to how you worked the problems when the solutions are posted.

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 I will allow reasonable group work on homework. However, at most half of the problems assigned in
any homework set can be the result of work with others. Do not post assigned homework questions or
answers in public web forums.
I do not accept late homework, primarily so that I may post answer keys in a timely fashion. To
compensate, I drop the two lowest scores to accommodate the usual crises that life throws at students
and I can create makeup assignments for multi-week emergencies.

The Structure of and Grading of Tests

I construct my exams to maximize the information I learn about your performance, not to conform to
expectations of passing percentages. Please pay attention when I explain my test structure in class.

Your Objectives
ˆ Rigorously work with limits, integrals and derivatives using their definitions, and use the funda-
mental theorem of calculus to compute definite and indefinite integrals.

ˆ Write rigorous and well written proofs which show comprehension of formal mathematical defini-
tions, recognize hypotheses, and form logical conclusions.
ˆ Understand the fundamental difference between the rational and real number systems.

ˆ Fully comprehend the distinction between differentiable functions and continuous functions.

ˆ Understand the power and pitfalls in exchanging the order of limits.

List of topics
The following topics and their scheduling are subject to change. Please follow the class within UNM–Learn
for a more up-to-date listing, homework, etc.
Monday August 23 §1.1. Logical Connectives
Wednesday August 25 §1.2. Quantifiers

Friday August 27 §1.3. Techniques of Proof: I

Monday August 30 §1.4. Techniques of Proof: II

Wednesday September 1 §2.1. Basic Set Operations

Friday September 3 §2.2. Relations

September 6 Labor Day

Wednesday September 8 §2.3. Functions

Friday September 10 §2.4. Cardinality

Monday September 13 §2.4. Cardinality

Wednesday September 15 Midterm I.

Friday September 17 §2.5. Axioms for Set Theory

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Monday September 20 §3.1. Natural Numbers and Induction
Wednesday September 22 §3.2. Ordered Fields
Friday September 24 §3.3. The Completeness Axiom

Monday September 27 §3.4.Topology of the Reals

Wednesday September 29 §3.5. Compact Sets
Friday October 1 §3.6. Metric Spaces

Monday October 4 §4.1. Convergence

Wednesday October 6 §4.2. Limit Theorems
Friday October 8 §4.3. Monotone Sequences and Cauchy Sequences

Monday October 11 §4.4. Subsequences

Wednesday October 13 §5.1. Limits of Functions
October 14-15 Fall Break
Monday October 18 §5.2. Continuous Functions
Wednesday October 20 Midterm II.
Friday October 22 §5.3. Properties of Continuous Functions

Monday October 25 §5.4. Uniform Continuity

Wednesday October 27 §5.4. Uniform Continuity
Friday October 29 §5.6. Continuity in Metric Space

Monday November 1 §6.1. The Derivative

Wednesday November 3 §6.2. The Mean Value Theorem
Friday November 5 §6.3. L’Hôpital’s Rule

Monday November 8 §6.4. Taylor’s Theorem

Wednesday November 10 Midterm III.
Friday November 12 §7.1. The Riemann Integral

Monday November 15 §7.2. Properties of the Riemann Integral

Wednesday November 17 7.3. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
Friday November 19 §8.1. Convergence of Infinite Series

Monday November 22 §8.2. Convergence Tests

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Wednesday November 24 §8.3. Power Series
Friday November 24-25 Thanksgiving Break
Monday November 29 §9.1. Pointwise and uniform Convergence
Wednesday December 1 §9.2. Application of Uniform Convergence

Friday December 3 § 9.3. Uniform Convergence of Power Series

Monday December 6 Review

Wednesday December 8 Review

Friday December 10 Review

December 13-18 Final exam week. We will follow the registrar’s schedule.