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Week Topics Reading
1 Metric Spaces, ordered fields, number systems, induction, countability Introduction, 1.1
2 Sequences, convergence, least upper bounds, Cauchy condition, completeness, Bolzano-Weierstrauss theorem 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
3 Norms, inner product spaces, Cauchy-Schwartz inequality, contractions, Banach fixed point theorem, open & closed sets 1.7, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
4 Set closure & boundary, sequences and closed & complete spaces, convergence of series 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9
5 Compactness, Heine-Borel theorem, nested sets 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
6 Midterm May 5, Connectedness 3.4, 3.5
7 Continuity, intermediate value theorem 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
8 Uniform continuity, differentiation and integration in one real variable 4.6, 4.7, 4.8
9 Pointwise and uniform convergence, Weierstrauss M-test 5.1, 5.2
10 Integration and differentiation of series, the space of continuous functions 5.3, 5.5