Calculus

Table of Contents

Prerequisite

  • Sets, equivalence relations and functions
  • Order relations, upper and lower bounds, supremum and infimum
  • Countable sets
  • Real numbers

Introduction to topology and metric spaces

  • Topological spaces
  • Compact and connected sets
  • Basis of a topology
  • Countable spaces
  • Continuity
  • Notion of distance and induced topology

Sequences in Metric Spaces

  • Cauchy sequences.
  • Limit of sequences and sub-sequences.
  • Comparison theroem for limit of sequences.
  • The number e as a limit of a sequence.

Series

  • Series as limit of partial sums.
  • Root, ratio and comparison test for series.

Functions and Limits on Metric Spaces

  • Notion of limit of function in a metric space.
  • Properties of limit (sum, ratio and product of limits)

Limits of Real Functions

  • Some important limits.
  • Properties of limits of functions (comparison test)
  • The number e as limit of a function.

Continuity of Real Functions

  • Uniform continuity.
  • Weiestrass Theorem.

Derivative of Real Functions

  • Properties of derivatives.
  • Continuity and derivability.
  • Lagrange theorem.
  • Rule de L'Hopital and application.
  • Derivatives of fundamental functions.

Functions of several real variables

  • Continuity in Euclidean spaces
  • Derivative and differential
  • Concavity and convexity
  • Local and global maxima and minima

The Riemann-Steltjes Integral

  • Characterization of integrable functions.
  • Properties of the integral.
  • Fundamental Theorems of Calulus.
  • Improper integral and convergence criteria.

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