Analysis I: Mathematics 521 - Lectures 2 and 4 - Fall 2016

Basic Information

Professor: Betsy Stovall, 721 Van Vleck
Lectures: Lecture 2: MWF 11-11:50 in B119 Van Vleck, MWF 1:20-2:10 in B105 Van Vleck
Office hours: Wednesdays 9:15-10:15, Thursdays 3-4. I am also available immediately after my 522 lecture (MWF 2:25-3:15 in B135) most days.
Email Most mathematical questions will be redirected to office hours. My email address is my last name, followed by @math.wisc.edu

Class Syllabus:

Textbook: Rudin, Principles of Mathematical Analysis ("Baby Rudin")
Course Material: Fundamentals of real analysis in metric spaces, particularly R^n, culminating in a rigorous development of the single variable calculus.
Prerequisites: Prior serious exposure to understanding and writing proofs, such as Math 375, 341, or 421 will be assumed. Undergraduates lacking such experience have historically had an extremely difficult time passing the course.

Grading:

Exam scores and homework totals will be rescaled before raw scores are computed. Your raw score will be
35% Final Exam, 25% Midterm 1, 25% Midterm 2, 15% Homework
Please see missed exam policy below

Homework will be due most Fridays at the beginning of class and will be posted at the bottom of this page. Your lowest two homework scores will be dropped.

Late homework will not be accepted, and homework will not be collected from my departmental mailbox.

Assignments must be legible and well-organized. (Buy a stapler). Solutions that are unreadable or difficult to find may not be graded. Write your name at the top of the first page.

Midterm 1: Wednesday, October 12, during lecture.
Midterm 2: Wednesday, November 16, during lecture.

Final Exam: The University scheduled time/place:
Students who know in advance of any conflicts with any exam, particularly for a religious observance, should notify me immediately, as should students needing accommodations for a documented disability.

Missed exam policy: There will be no makeup exams, except as required by university policy. Students missing one midterm with a legitimate excuse will have that midterm grade replaced by the average of the rescaled grades for the final exam and the other midterm. Legitimate excuses must be emergencies or must be agreed to by the instructor beforehand. All excuses must be presented to the instructor in writing as soon as possible and not later than one week following the exam.

Students missing both midterms will not pass the course. Students missing the final exam will receive an incomplete only if work-to-date is at least a C and the circumstances surrounding the absence were truly dire. (An early flight or carpool is not dire.)

Graduate students: In accordance with department policy, graduate students will be evaluated separately from undergraduates.

Grading errors do sometimes occur. If you believe a problem on an assignment has been graded incorrectly, submit your request for a regrade in writing within one week of the day on which the assignment was returned.

Please verify in a timely manner that your scores are correctly recorded on learn@uw.

Honors: There is an honors option available, which is open to all undergraduates enrolled in the course. Honors students will do some independent reading and solve some additional problems. Assignments will be made as the semester progresses.

Homework

Due to limited resources, only a selection of the assigned problems will be graded.

Homework 1 Due Friday, 9/16.
Homework 2 Due Friday, 9/23.
Homework 3 Due Friday, 9/30.
Homework 4 Due Friday, 10/7.
Homework 5 Due Friday, 10/14.
Homework 6 Due Friday, 10/21.
Homework 7 Due Friday, 10/28.
Homework 8 Due Friday, 11/4.
Homework 9 Due Friday, 11/11.
Homework 10 Due Friday, 11/18.
Homework 11 Due Friday, 12/2.
Homework 12 Due Monday, 12/10.
Homework 13 Not due.

Academic Integrity

Don't cheat. All submitted work must be written in your own words. You may discuss homework problems with your peers, but you are expected to do the actual writeup of your solutions alone, with no resources other than the class notes/texts. Give appropriate credit for the ideas of others (including your peers). Exams are to be done without books, notes, or discussion. At a minimum, violations will result in a zero on the assignment in question.
I encourage you to make a serious effort to solve the homework problems on your own, before you consult classmates or other outside resources.

Old Exams

Exam 1 11am
Exam 1 1:20pm
Exam 2 11am
Exam 2 1:20pm