Inequalities: rules for manipulating inequalities; inequalities and powers; inequalities and absolute values; Bernoulli's inequality; triangle inequality.
Sequences: monotonic sequences; bounded sequences; subsequences; tending to infinity; null sequences (and algebra of); convergent sequences (and algebra of, boundedness, uniqueness of limit); sandwich theorems; shift rules; standard limits; ratio test; limits and inequalities; recursively-defined sequences.
The real numbers: infinitely many rationals/irrationals in any open interval; rationals/irrationals and terminating/recurring/non-recurring decimals; numbers with more than one decimal representation; sets and upper/lower bounds; supremum and infimum; completeness axiom (in the form "every non-empty set bounded above has a supremum"); consequences of completeness; existence of k-th roots; Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem; Cauchy sequences (contracting sequences as example).
Series: partial sums; convergence and divergence; sum rule; shift rule; null sequence test.
Module material:
Week 1, assignment due 11 October
Week 2, assignment due 18 October
Week 3, assignment due 25 October
Week 4, assignment due 1 November
Week 5, assignment due 8 November
Week 6, assignment due 15 November
Week 7, assignment due 22 November
Week 8, assignment due 29 November
Week 9, assignment due 6 December
References:
Mary Hart, Guide to Analysis, Macmillan Mathematical Guides, 2001, ISBN: 0333794494.
G. H. Hardy, A Course of Pure Mathematics, Cambridge Mathematical Library, 1993, ISBN: 0521092272.
Michael Spivak, Calculus, Publish Or Perish, 1994, ISBN: 0914098896.
David S. G. Stirling, Mathematics Analysis and Proof, Horwood Publishing, 1997, ISBN: 1898563365.