MAT 550: Analysis

SUNY at Stony Brook
Department of Mathematics
SUNY at Stony Brook

First-year graduate students who feel that they do not need to take this course must get a waiver from the course professor. Waivers will not be unreasonably denied.

Text: A First Graduate Course in Real Analysis, by Daryl Geller, available only at the University Bookstore.
The last four or five lectures will be on additional topics in PDE; most likely another book will be required.

Professor: Prof. Daryl Geller, Math Tower 4-100B
Phone: 632-8327 email: daryl@math.sunysb.edu
Office hours: MW 12:45-2:15 in 4-100B or P-143.

Homework:  Homework will be assigned each week, and will count for 15% of your grade in the course.

Examinations: There will be one test during the semester (dates to be negotiated).   counting for 40% of the grade in the course.  The final examination will count for 45% of the grade in the course.

Final Exam -- Thursday, May 10, P-131, 1-4 p.m.

Homework and announcements will be posted on this page regularly.
Announcements for the week of 1/22-1/26:
Homework (due Wednesday 1/31) is: Exercises 5.7.15, 5.7.16, 5.7.18, 5.7.19, 7.1.6, 7.1.7, 8.3.4, 8.3.5.

Announcements for the week of 1/29-2/2:
Homework (due Wednesday 2/7) is: Exercises 9.1.7, 9.1.8, 9.1.12, 9.1.13, 9.1.14, 9.2.8, 9.2.9, 9.2.10.

Announcements for the week of 2/5-2/9:
Homework (due Wednesday 2/14) is: Exercises 9.3.8, 9.5.9, 9.5.10, 9.5.11, 9.5.12, 9.5.13, 9.5.14, 9.6.2

Announcements for the week of 2/12-2/16:
In the first problem set this semester I had meant to ask for Exercise 5.7.15, not 5.7.17 (which isn't the number of an exercise). Please do 5.7.15 this week for next Wednesday.
Homework (due Wednesday 2/21) is: Exercises 5.7.15, 10.1.4, 10.2.2, 10.2.6, 10.2.8, 10.2.10, 10.2.11

Announcements for the week of 2/19-2/23:
First midterm, Wednesday night, 2/28. Covers up to the end of Chapter 10. Time: 7-10 p.m. Location: P-131 Math.
Homework: (due Friday 3/2) is: Exercises 10.3.12, 10.3.13, 10.3.16, 11.1.1, 11.1.2, 11.2.5

Announcements for the week of 2/26-3/2:
Homework: (due Wednesday 3/7) is: read pages 433-434, do Exercises 11.2.6, 11.2.13, 11.2.19, 11.2.20, 11.2.21
Until further notice, class will meet weekly on Wednesdays only, from 2:20-5:00 p.m.
Solutions to the first midterm are here.

Announcements for the week of 3/5-3/9:
Homework: (due Wednesday 3/14) is: Exercises 11.2.21, 11.2.24, 11.2.25, 11.2.27, 11.3.2, 11.3.5, 11.3.6, 11.3.7

Announcements for the week of 3/12-3/16:
Homework: (due Wednesday 3/21) is: Exercises 11.4.4, 11.4.5, 11.4.8, 11.4.9, 12.1.14, 12.1.15, 12.1.18, 12.1.19.
(In Exercise 11.4.4, assume that $u$ is twice continuously differentiable on U. In the hint for that exercise, where it says "or equivalently ...", ignore what it says it's equivalent to.)

Announcements for the week of 3/19-3/23:
There are too many important exercises in sections 12.2 and 12.3 for one week. Here are eight of them; I will be assigning more in later weeks.
Homework: (due Friday 3/30) is: Exercises 12.2.7, 12.2.13, 12.2.14, 12.3.11, 12.3.16, 12.3.21, 12.3.22, 12.3.23.
Next class: Monday, March 26.

Announcements for the week of 3/26-3/30:
Next class: Tuesday, April 10, from 12:15-2:15. We will meet in the Common Room at 12:15 and move to the 5th floor seminar room at 12:40.
Homework: (due Tuesday 4/10) is: Exercises 12.4.4, 12.4.5, 12.4.6, 12.4.9, 12.5.9, 12.5.11, 12.5.12, 12.5.13.

Announcements for the week of 4/9-4/13:
Next classes: Wednesday, April 18.
Homework: (due Wednesday 4/18) is: Exercises 13.1.6, 13.2.6, 13.3.8, 13.3.9, 13.3.10, 13.3.11, 13.4.3, 13.4.4.

Announcements for the week of 4/16-4/20:
Next classes: Wednesday, April 25.
Homework: (due Wednesday 4/18) is: Exercises 13.5.10, 13.5.11, 13.5.22, 13.5.23, 13.5.24, 13.5.28, 12.2.9, 12.2.10.

Announcements for the week of 4/23-4/27:
Next classes: Thursday, May 2 and/or Friday May 3.
The supplementary notes on harmonic functions are here.
The supplementary notes on the heat equation and on the Fourier transform are here.
Homework: (due Wednesday, 5/2) is: Exercises 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7 from the supplementary notes on harmonic functions, and 12.3.17 and 12.3.18 from the book.

Errata in the book:
Section 7.3: Assume X is a complete measure space.

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