M.S. Comprehensive Examination Topics
Real Analysis
2008
The Real Number System
- Complete Linearly Ordered Field
- Axiom of Completeness
Topology of the Real Line
- Limits, Suprema and Infima, Cauchy Sequences
- Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem
- Compact Sets: Equivalence of Sequential and Covering Compactness
Continuous Functions
- Inverse Images of Open and Closed Sets
- Intermediate Value Theorem
- Continuous Image of a Compact Set
- Uniform Continuity and Compactness
- Extreme Values on Compact Sets
Differential Calculus
- Intermediate Value Theorem for the Derivative
- Taylor's Theorem and the Lagrange Remainder
Integral Calculus
- Definition of Riemann and Riemann-Stieltjes Integrals
- Integrability of Piecewise Continuous Functions
Sequences, Series of Functions
- Uniform Convergence of a Sequence of Functions
- Absolute and Uniform Convergence of Series of Real-Valued
Functions
- Weierstrass M-Test; Ratio Test; Root Test
Miscellaneous Topics
- Inverse and Implicit Function Theorems in Several Variables
- Metric Spaces: Closed and Open Sets, Compactness, Connected Sets, Continuous Functions
- Contraction mapping principle
Reference:
Principles of Mathematical Analysis, 3rd Edition, W. Rudin, McGraw-Hill.
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