Math 6210: Real Analysis


Instructor: Mladen Bestvina
Office: JWB 210
Office hours: By appointment
Meets: MWF 2-2:50 in LCB 225
Midterm: Friday, Oct. 6
Final:
Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 1:00 – 3:00 pm
T
ext: There are many textbooks on graduate real analysis and in some sense a lot of them are roughly equivalent (the first Tao's book covers measure theory and the second covers Banach spaces). I will loosely follow

but here are some others that you may find useful:


Homework: It will be assigned weekly. You are encouraged to work in groups, but what you write should be your own work and you should list the other people in your group. It will be due every week on Mondays at 9 am and you should turn it in through canvas in latex. Late homework is not accepted but the lowest two scores are dropped from the count. You should read the assigned reading for the week before the corresponding lecture. I will also typically give out several problems each week that you are not required to turn in.

Problem sessions: We'll have a problem session every other week outside the class time where you are expected to present solutions to unassigned problems. These will also act as group office hours. It will be in JWB 333 on Fridays at 3.


Grading: The final grade is based on homework (30%), problem session activity (10%), the midterm (20%) and the final (40%).

Week
Reading
Homework
Due Date
1
Tao 1.1-1.2, Axler Ch. 1: Jordan content, Riemann-Darboux integral, measure
1,5,7,9,15 from hw01
8/28
2
Folland Ch. 1 or Tao, about the first half of 1.2
1,2,5,6,7 from hw02
9/5
3
Properties of Lebesgue measure, Measurable functions and integration
1,3,4,5,10 from hw03
9/11
4
Monotone limit theorem, Fatou's lemma, Lebesgue dominated convergence theorem
2,3,7,9,10 from hw04
9/18
5
Modes of convergence, Product measures, Fubini-Tonelli, Monotone class theorem
1,3,4,5,8 from hw05
9/25
6
A bit more on Lebesgue measure. Signed measures. Hahn and Jordan decomposition theorems.
2,5,7,8,9 from hw06
10/2
7
prepare for the midterm on Oct 6. No homework this week.


8
Lebesgue decomposition and Radon-Nikodym derivative
2,4,5,7,9 from hw07
10/23
9
Lebesgue differentiation, monotone functions and BV functions
1,2,3,6,9 from hw08
10/30
10
Banach spaces, L^p spaces, Hahn-Banach
3,4,5,8,9 from hw09
11/6
11
Baire category, Open Mapping, Closed Graph, Banach-Steinhaus
3,5,7,8,12 from hw10
11/13
12
Riesz representation, weak and weak* topology
2,3,6,8,10 from hw11
11/20
13
Hilbert spaces
4,7,9 from hw12
11/27
14
Stone-Weierstrass, Fourier transform
1,2,4,5,8 from hw13
12/4
15
Fourier transform. I'll follow the following concise notes http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~womp/2006/Fourier.pdf
hw14
for your enjoyment


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