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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.

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