Math 426/826 Exam I Policies
When:
Wednesday February 21, 6p.m. to 8p.m.
Where:
Oldfather 203 (not our regular classroom, but one just beside it).
What will it cover?
Everything we talked about in class, from start of the semester, up to Friday February 16.
Format:
Like the previous exams, the questions will be of three kinds: quiz-style, homework-style and bookwork. In quiz-style questions I'll be asking you to state definitions and theorems from the book and class notes. Homework-style questions will ask you to solve a new problem. They will be as hard as the easy-to-medium homework questions, or the Analysis Lab questions.
Book-Work:
You will be asked to prove two of the following results from class. These are hard theorems, with deep ideas in them, and you should plan on spending some time studying them and learning their details before the exam:
1. Proposition 6.21 contin functions on compact sets are unif contin
2. Lemma 6.23 compact sets are closed
3. Theorem 6.26 compact sets are complete
4. Lemma 7.2 comparison test for series
5. Theorem 7.5 convergence and divergence of \sum 1/n^p
6. Theorem 7.9 power series are differentiable
The aim of this type of question is to give you the opportunity of writing clear, correct mathematical arguments about substantial results. So I encourage you to phrase the arguments in your own words. If possible improve on the wording you got from the notes/WebNotes/Rudin!
Also, feel free to come and show me drafts of alternate wordings of these proofs to get my feedback.
"What should I do to prepare?":
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Learn the bookwork that I set above.
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Learn all the definitions and statements of theorems. ("Theorems" inlcudes lemmas, propositions and corollaries!) Theorems which have names are (i) really important (that's why they have names) and (ii) really easy to ask in questions (because they have names). Take a look at the
index of theorems
to see some names.
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For the homework-style questions, the best revision you can do is make sure you can do all the homework problems. Of course you have a week to do the homework and only two hours for the exam, so I'll set easier questions, but you'll need the same ideas. Also look at the problems I set in the Analysis Lab, and the solutions that I came up with. Look at the
homework solutions
and the
Analysis Lab solutions.
Go to the home page
Analysis WebNotes by John Lindsay Orr.
Comments to the author:
jorr@math.unl.edu
All contents copyright (C) 1995 John L. Orr
University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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Last modified: February 14, 1995