Math 4130, Fall 2013 Prof.

Anil Nerode
an17@.cornell.edu Malott 545

Lecture 001-TuTh 8:40-9:55,Malott 406

Assistant: Robert Kesler rmk273@cornell.edu 111 Malott No o ce phone

cellphone 757-621-0209.

Lecture 002 -TuTh 10:10-11:45, Malott 224

Assistant: Hossein Lamei Ramandi hl846@cornell.edu 120 Malott o ce phone 255-7548

Make appointments with Nerode by email a day in advance anerode1@twcny.rr.com

WORKING TOGETHER: You

are encouraged to work together. You often learn more from puzzling together than from books or lectures. The assistants will solve in section as many of the homework problems before they are due as time permits.

LECTURES: Lectures follow

Nerode s pdf modules.

These will be posted on the course BLACKBOARD site. Upload them to your smartphone or laptop and follow the lectures without note taking, an activity which usually detracts from understanding. I will take roll at random intervals to gauge your active participation.

You may attend either lecture and either section. Homework is turned in at the Thursday lecture and returned in your registered section.

TEXTS: There are two required

texts. Each covers most of the material but in dierent ways:

Tom Apostol, Mathematical Analysis, edition 2; Maxwell Rosenlicht, Introduction to Analysis. Rosenlicht has readable explanations and is cheap. Apostol is more precise and more expensive.

PRESENTATION: I develop the

mathematics in rough

order of discovery, but in modern language. This was a common expository technique for mathematics until about 1930. It is not so common now.

HOMEWORK: will be taken from

lecture modules posted on blackboard and from both books.

Assignments will be posted on Blackboard. Homework will be collected in class Thursdays. The rst problem set is due September 5. Homework should be returned in TA section, not in class, on Tuesdays.

Homework which is late without prior permission will be recorded with grade zero. All parts of all problems on all homework and all exams will be given equal weight . The ONLY grades assigned for a problem are

+0 if there is almost nothing correct, +5 if there is some legible progress toward a solution +10 if the solution is correct and legible. Requests for regrading must be submitted to your assistant, together with the homework and a written justication,

in the section after the homework is returned. No later requests will be entertained.

Warning: Perfect homework is

homework written in logical order in complete English sentences with correct usage of

"suppose that" and "therefore" as needed. You are supposed to learn to write mathematics. Therefore no later verbal explanations of earlier written homework will be entertained. The written solutions have to stand on their own.

No credit will be given for what is in your head and not written down or for what is written down and is not immediately understandable to the assistant.

TESTS: There will be two in-class

exams, announced a week in advance.

The third "test" will be the last homework assignment due on the last day of classes, with double credit 0, +10, +20 for that assignment.

GRADES:
Course homework grade: the sum of all weekly homework grades after dropping the lowest two.

The lowest two include those not turned in at all or not on time. Course exam grade: the sum of the grades on the three exams.

FINAL GRADE: This will be determined by how much of the course you learned well, not on your competition. To estimate this I rank order the course homework grades,

I rank order the course exam grades, and I ask the assistants to evaluate class participation.