Analysis 1 Class Notes
An Introduction to Analysis, 2nd Edition, James R. Kirkwood
Kirkwood's book 2nd edition         Kirkwood's book 3rd edition

Copies of the classnotes are on the internet in PDF format as given below. The "Proofs of Theorems" files were prepared in Beamer and they contain proofs of results. The "Printout of Proofs" are printable PDF files of the Beamer slides without the pauses. These notes and supplements have not been classroom tested (and so may have some typographical errors).

The notes presented here are primarily based on James Kirkwood's An Introduction to Analysis, 2nd Edition. This is in print by both PWS Publishing Company (Boston, MA; 1995) and Waveland Press (Long Grove, IL; 2002). A third edition is out from the CRC Press (Boca Raton, FL; 2021). In the Preface to the 3rd edition, Kirkwood comments: "The most significant change in this edition is the addition of a section on the Cantor set and the Cantor function and a small amount of material on connectedness." The new section is "Section 8.4. The Cantor Set and Cantor Function" and this will be covered in Analysis 2. These notes are largely based on the second edition, but will also incorporate the little bit of new material from the third edition.

The catalog description for Analysis 1 (MATH 4217/5217) is: "Studies elements of point set topology, limits and continuity, differentiability, Taylor's theorem, approximation, Riemann integral." This is a bit inaccurate. A more appropriate description is: "Introduces the real numbers as a complete ordered field, and covers open sets, sequences, continuous functions, and differentiable functions, all in the context of the real numbers." The topics of integration and series are explored in Analysis 2 (MATH 4227/5227).

Introduction.

1. The Real Number System.

2. Sequences of Real Numbers.

3. Topology of the Real Numbers.

4. Continuous Functions.

5. Differentiation.


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