Real Analysis: Foundations 2022
- Code: DT0708
- Unit Coordinator: Simone Fagioli, Corrado Lattanzio, Emanuela Radici
- Programme: Pre Master's Foundation
- ECTS Credits: 8
- Taught hours: 48
- Campus: University of L'Aquila
- Language: English
- Delivery: Online
- Content:
Propositional logic. Propositional calculus.
Sets, set operations, relations, functions. Cardinality of sets, countable sets, uncountable sets. Elementary number sets. Integers and rationals. Induction principle.
More on functions: injective and surjective functions, invertible functions, image and pre-image.
The set of real numbers. Separation axiom, Dedekind cuts. Infimum and supremum. Archimedean property. Complex numbers: cartesian and trigonetric form, basic properties, powers, complex roots, fundamental theorem of algebra.
Sequences of real numbers: monotone sequences, convergence of a sequence, subsequences, limsup and liminf of a sequence, Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem.
Introduction to functions of real numbers. Elementary functions: exponential and logarithmic function, trigonometric functions, irrational functions. Monotone functions.
The topology of real numbers: intervals, half lines, open sets, closed sets. The topology of the Euclidean space Rn: balls, open and closed sets. Compact sets in the Euclidean space.