Stephen abbott - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Introduce Axiom of Completeness, the bed rock of advanced calculus, where every nonempty bounded above subset of R has a lower upper bound (supremum), and every nonempty bounded below subset of R has a greatest lower bound (infimum). Introduce the consequences of the Axiom of Completeness, with the Nested Interval Property and the Archimedean Property.

Explain and prove more consequences from the axiom of completeness. First, the density of rational numbers in real numbers using Archimedean principle 1 and axiom of completeness. Then prove the existence of the square root of 2 with contradiction. Lastly, the sequences argument with the algebraic limit theorem and order limit theorem.

Introduce sequences and its epsilon proof. Define the convergence of an to a and how to prove it with a backwards proof by first identifying the candidate for the limit and prove that that is the candidate, then prove convergence. Then introduce some theorems about sequences, namely the algebraic limit theorem and the order limit theorem.

Give an epsilon proof for the limit of a sequence, where in more detail the partial sum of a series and its convergence is explained and tested with the p-series test. Then, introduce the Cauchy sequence and the monotone convergence theorem.

Prove the irrationality of square root of two; Give some preliminary introduction to this course, including sets, functions, logics and proofs, induction.

Explain the proof for the nested interval property, and also the proofs for the Archimedean Property, which is split into two parts.