Instructor: Stanislaw J. Szarek (pronounced 'Shareck')
Office: Yost 332
Office hours: Starting the 3rd week of classes, Mondays 9:30-11:59 am (generally in-person in Yost 332, with remote option, see Canvas for the Zoom link), or by appointment, or by luck
Catalog Course Description: General theory of measure and integration.
Measures and outer measures. Lebesgue measure on-N-space. Integration.
Convergence theorems. Product measures and Fubini's theorem.
Signed measures. Hahn-Jordan decomposition, Radon-Nikodym theorem,
and Lebesgue decomposition. Lp spaces. Lebesgue differentiation theorem in N-space.
Prereq: MATH 322.
Textbook: "Real Analysis" by G. B. Folland, second edition (1999, 978-0471317166).
Notes: (1) Here is
a link to errata (list of misprints, mostly). (2) If you want to use an earlier edition, you may try AT YOUR OWN risk.
The course: This is the first course of the MATH 423-424 sequence.
MATH 423 covers general theory of measure and integration.
When you hear someone invoking integrals or probabilities, this class will help
you understand what they are really talking about.
The second course, MATH 424, covers elements of functional analysis and some of its applications.
The sequence is required of most mathematics graduate students.
It can also be useful to graduate students in other mathematical sciences (such as statistics
and operation research) or in engineering.
Finally, the course (or the sequence) can be taken by advanced undergraduates.
Prerequisites: This course assumes that you took an undergraduate analysis
course or achieved an equivalent expertise by other means. See announcements in Canvas for details.
Grades: Your Final Grade in the course will be based on
Attendance/Assignments/Various Forms of Class Participation (40%),
Midterm Exam (20%) and Final Exam (40%).
(Students with special needs should contact
Division of Student Affairs. Please keep in mind that accommodations are not retroactive.)
Integrity: It is OK (and indeed encouraged) to discuss homework assignments with fellow students.
However, any submitted work must be your own.
See
CWRU academic integrity policy. Any violation of the policy will be reported to the Dean of Undergraduate Studies and the Office of Student Conduct & Community Standards.
SYLLABUS & ASSIGNMENTS
We will cover approximately Chapters 1-3 from the textbook.
It is assumed that the students will familiarize themselves (at least roughly)
with the "Prologue" on their own; but the more "sophisticated" points from
there may be redone in class if and when needed.
