Stony Brook - Graduate Courses - Analysis - MAT 544
Analysis
MAT 544
Fall Semester
Advanced Calculus and Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE)
Review of the real number system
Metric spaces, continuity, uniform convergence
Contraction mapping principle
Existence and uniqueness theorems for ODE
Global existence theorem for linear ODE
Linear transformations, orthogonal projections and matrix exponential
Linear systems of ODE with constant coefficients
Derivatives in
R
n
and in Banach spaces
Newton's method and the inverse function theorem
The implicit function theorem
Measure Theory
Riemann integral in
R
n
Cantor-type sets, dyadic decompositions in
R
n
Measures arising from volume functions on open sets
Basic properties of the Lebesgue measure
Measurable and integrable functions
Convergence theorems for Lebesgue integrals: monotone and dominated convergence theorems and Fatou's lemma
Criterion for Riemann integrability
Additional Topics
Iterated integrals; Tonelli's and Fubini's Theorems
Riesz Representation Theorem
Radon-Nikodym Theorem
The main reference is Geller's book. A rough timetable of the pace to cover the book is:
Ch. 1
2½ weeks
Ch. 2
2 weeks
Ch. 3
3½ weeks
Ch. 4
2½ weeks
Ch. 5
2½ weeks
Ch. 6
Homework
Ch. 7 & 8
2½ weeks
References:
Daryl Geller,
A first graduate course in real analysis. Part I,
Solutions Custom Publishing (to be distributed in class)
Walter Rudin,
Principles of mathematical analysis,
3
rd
ed., McGraw-Hill, New York 1976
Walter Rudin,
Real and complex analysis
,
3
rd
ed., McGraw-Hill, New York 1987