Real Analysis Syllabus

Summer 2019

• Course Description: The Real Analysis section will cover some basic analysis topics with a focus
on preparing you for first year doctoral-level courses. Topics covered will include sequences and
series, functions, and elemental measure theory.

• Classroom: MC 2301 unless otherwise noted

• Class Time: 9:30-11:30 M-F from August 5-14th. 9:30-10:15 August 15th (So new students can
attend orientation)

• Final Exam Time:9:30-10:15 August 16th

• Instructor: Ben Langworthy (blangwor@live.unc.edu)

Grader: Phoebe Jiang (xiaotong@live.unc.edu)

• Office Hours: 3:30-4:30

• Course Textbooks (Optional): Class notes and attendance should be sufficient to complete
the required coursework, but if you would like textbooks for additional review the following are
recommended

1. Real Mathematical Analysis, Second Edition; Charles Chapman Pugh, 2015

2. Theory of Point Estimation, Second Edition, Lehmann, E. and Casella, G., 2015

• Coursework: There will be four sets of homeworks and a final exam for the course. Homeworks
will be due at the beginning of class on the due date.

• Main Topics:

1. Basic topology: compactness, metric spaces, open, closed, and bounded sets.

2. Sequences, series, and convergence: Cauchy sequences, bounded sequences, monotone se-
quences, power series, limsup, liminf, definition of big O and little o notation.

3. Functions: continuity, uniform continuity, differentiability, Taylor expansion, convex func-

tions, sequences of functions.

4. Introduction to measure theory: definition and properties of measure, Lesbesgue measure,

measurable sets, measurable functions.

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 5. Integration: Riemann integral, Newton-Libniz integral, integration by parts, Lesbesgue inte-
gral, Fatou’s lemma, Fubini theorem

6. Distribution theory, complex numbers, Fourier transformation (if time allows)

• Quizzes: At the beginning of some classes there may be a short quiz. These will generally take
10 minutes and cover material covered in previous classes.

• Working in groups for homeworks is encouraged but plagiarism (copying) is strictly prohibited. It
is recommended that, if you wish to work in groups, you first try the problems on your own before
discussing them with the group. Due to time limit, only selected topics of the two textbooks will
be covered in this course. You are encouraged to read the chapters that are not covered in class.
Feel free to stop by during the office hours if you have questions, comments, ideas or suggestions.