Course Description (Catalog Copy)
01:640:311 Introduction to Real Analysis I (4)
Introduction to language and fundamental concepts of analysis. The real numbers, sequences, limits, continuity, differentiation in one variable.
Prerequisites
- CALC 4 and a C or better in 01:640:300 or permission of department.
Textbook (regular sections)
Textbook: For current textbook please refer to our Master Textbook List page
311H (Honors Section)
Textbook: For current textbook please refer to our Master Textbook List page
Course goals and exams
- Strengthening student's understanding of
- the results of calculus and the basis for their validity
- the uses of deductive reasoning
- Increasing the student's ability to
- understand definitions
- understand proofs
- analyze conjectures
- find counter-examples to false statements,
- construct proofs of true statements
- Materials to be covered: Chapters 0,1,2,3,4 of the text book
- Instructors make their own midterm and final exams
- A link to a brief syllabus, a midterm exam and a final exam by X. Huang in the Fall semester of 2016: (math.rutgers.edu/~huangx/math_311_syl.pdf) (math.rutgers.edu/~huangx/math_311_midterm.pdf) (math.rutgers.edu/~huangx/math_311_final.pdf)