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Lecture

Real Analysis Basics

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MATH-101(c): Analysis I

Étudier les concepts fondamentaux d'analyse et le calcul différentiel et intégral des fonctions réelles d'une variable. ...

Description

This lecture introduces the basics of real analysis, focusing on real numbers, sequences, limits, and continuous functions. It covers topics such as the definition of limits, properties of limits, periodicity, and bounded sequences. The course aims to provide a solid foundation in analysis for engineering students, with a theoretical approach and practical examples.

Instructor

Sacha Friedli

Diploma of Physics, Université de Lausanne, 1999 Phd, Institut de Physique Théorique, EPFL, 1999-2004 Post-doc, IMPA (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 2004-2006 Adjunct professor, Departamento de Matemática (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), 2006-2016 Collaborateur Scientifique, Cours de Mathématiques Spéciales, EPFL, Lausanne, 2016-

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Related concepts (32)

Real number

In mathematics, a real number is a number that can be used to measure a continuous one-dimensional quantity such as a distance, duration or temperature. Here, continuous means that pairs of values can have arbitrarily small differences. Every real number can be almost uniquely represented by an infinite decimal expansion. The real numbers are fundamental in calculus (and more generally in all mathematics), in particular by their role in the classical definitions of limits, continuity and derivatives.

Completeness of the real numbers

Completeness is a property of the real numbers that, intuitively, implies that there are no "gaps" (in Dedekind's terminology) or "missing points" in the real number line. This contrasts with the rational numbers, whose corresponding number line has a "gap" at each irrational value. In the decimal number system, completeness is equivalent to the statement that any infinite string of decimal digits is actually a decimal representation for some real number.

List of real analysis topics

This is a list of articles that are considered real analysis topics.

Nonstandard analysis

The history of calculus is fraught with philosophical debates about the meaning and logical validity of fluxions or infinitesimal numbers. The standard way to resolve these debates is to define the operations of calculus using epsilon–delta procedures rather than infinitesimals. Nonstandard analysis instead reformulates the calculus using a logically rigorous notion of infinitesimal numbers. Nonstandard analysis originated in the early 1960s by the mathematician Abraham Robinson.

Definable real number

Informally, a definable real number is a real number that can be uniquely specified by its description. The description may be expressed as a construction or as a formula of a formal language. For example, the positive square root of 2, , can be defined as the unique positive solution to the equation , and it can be constructed with a compass and straightedge. Different choices of a formal language or its interpretation give rise to different notions of definability.

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