General Information:
For a description of the course, including the grading policy, consult the course syllabus. Students are responsible for reading the syllabus and being aware of all the course and university policies.

Textbook: There will be no required textbook. See the course syllabus for a list of suggested references.

Classes meets on TR, 1:10pm–2:25pm, at Stevenson Center 1312.

Contact Information and Office Hours:
Instructor's office: SC 1515.
Instructor's email: marcelo.disconzi@vanderbilt.edu.
Instructor's office hours: Thursdays, 3-6pm, or by appointment.
Instructor's office phone: 322-7147.

General Math Office: SC 1326, phone: 322-6672.

Exams.

Description	Date	Location and Time	Remarks
Test 1	Oct 13	In class
Final Exam		take-home

Schedule:
Below is a schedule for the course (for the academic calendar, click here). This will be updated regularly and, therefore, students should check this webpage frequently. The due date for each assignment will be posted as the course progresses.

Date	Material covered	HW problems and assignments	Remarks
Aug 27	Basics.	HW1	This hw is optional; it is just to warm-up.
Sept 1	A bit of topology; compactness.	HW2	HW due Sept 8
Sept 3	Topological vector spaces.
Sept 8	More TVS, convexity.	HW3	HW due Sept 15
Sept 10	Convex inequalities.
Sept 15	Some functions spaces. Measures.	HW4	HW due Sept 22
Sept 17	Properties of measures. Characterization in terms of inequalities.
Sept 22	Some convergence results. Real, positive, and relatively bounded measures. Ordering.
Sept 24	Student presentation: constructive definition of inductive topologies. Inequalities with positive measures. Sup and inf of measures.	HW5
Sept 29	Operations with measures. Uniform convergence and uniform approximation. Lower semi-continuous functions.
Oct 1	Upper integral and outer measure. Lebesgue outer measure.	HW6	Theorem proven in class
Oct 6	More on upper integral and outer measure.
Oct 8	Student presentations: properties of lower semi-continuous functions; uniform approximation; analytic Hahn-Banach from the geometric Hahn-Banach (aka first separation theorem).		Hahn-Banach theorem
Oct 13	Test.
Oct 20	Some convergence theorems; negligible sets (sets of zero measure) and functions; properties true almost everywhere.	HW7
Oct 22	Equivalence classes of functions. Space of maps with finite semi-norm N_p and related properties.
Oct 27	p-integrable functions, L^p topology and L^p spaces. Completeness of L^p and other related spaces.
Oct 29	Behavior of sequence and sub-sequences. Properties of p-integrable functions. Extension of measures and integral of functions in L^1; integrable functions.
Nov 3	Upper envelope of functions in L^p. Monotone convergence theorem.
Nov 5	Dominated convergence theorem. Relation between the spaces L^p and L^q. Several remarks on integration.
Nov 5	Upper and lower envelopes of sequences of integrable functions. More convergence theorems. Integrability of lower and upper semi-continuous functions.	HW8	Make-up class for the week of Nov 16-20. Buttrick 112 at 7pm.
Nov 10	Integrable sets and their properties.
Nov 12	Boolean rings, Boolean algebras, and sigma algebras. Step functions.
Nov 12	A Riesz representation type theorem.		Make-up class for the week of Dec 7-11. SC 1312 at 7pm.
Nov 17	Student presentation: characterization of integrable sets; completion of metric spaces; extension of linear functionals.
Dec 1	A Riesz representation type theorem.	HW9
Dec 3	A Riesz representation type theorem.
Dec 10	Last class		Last day to turn in homework.

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