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MATH-281: Introduction to Real Analysis
Winter 2009


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Instructor
Navin Kashyap
Office: Jeffery Hall, Room 410
Telephone: 533-6640
Office Hours: Thursdays 3:30-5:00, or by appointment.
(If you need to schedule an appointment, please contact me at least 24 hours in advance.)

Teaching Assistant
Mark Lewis; mlewis[AT]mast[Dot]queensu[Dot]ca

Lectures
Slot 15: Tuesday 12:30, Thursday 11:30, Friday 1:30
Jeffery 128

Tutorials
Section A (Arts & Science): Wednesday 2:30 in Jeffery 101
Section B (Applied Science): Thursday 2:30 in Jeffery 101

The homework assignments will contain recommended practice problems. Practice problems are not to be turned in, but are meant to help you learn the material better and practice for exams. Solutions to a selection of these problems will be discussed at the tutorial sessions. Please print out the problem sheets before coming to the tutorials.

Textbook (Click here for course outline)
Math 281 Course Reader by O. Nielsen and D. Norman; available at the Queen's bookstore.

Several other introductory texts on the theory of real variables have been put on course reserve in the Douglas Engineering & Science Library. These may be used as additional reference material for the course.

Prerequisites
MATH 120 or MATH 280, or other previous exposure to limits and continuity.

Homework Assignments
There will be 10 homework assignments, due on Fridays in class. Late homeworks will NOT be accepted.

Students are allowed to work on and hand in assignments in teams of up to three members. Members of the same team will get the same marks.

Assignment #1 will be due on Friday, January 16, and Assignment #10 will be due on Friday, April 3.
There will be no assignment due on the week of the midterm.

Homework assignments will be posted here. No paper copies will be handed out.

Solutions to the assignments will be posted on the homeworks page immediately after the assignment due dates.

Midterm Test
Will be held on Friday, February 27, in class.
See the announcements page for more information.

Solutions to the midterm.

If a student is unable to write the midterm on the above date, or needs to make alternative arrangements (special needs etc.), then he/she must inform the instructor in writing by Friday, February 6. Students who miss the midterm without making prior arrangement with the instructor will not be given a makeup exam. See evaluation scheme below for more information.

Final Exam
TBA

Evaluation
Each homework assignment will be worth 2% of the final course mark. The lowest homework mark will be dropped, meaning that only 9 homeworks, accounting for a total of 18%, will count towards your final course mark.

The final course mark will be based on the homeworks, the midterm exam, and a final exam. The contribution of each of these towards the course mark is as follows: homeworks 18%, midterm 22%, final exam 60%.

There will be no makeup midterm exam. If a student misses the midterm without making prior arrangement with the instructor, then the final exam will count towards 82% of the student's mark.

Academic Integrity
Students are responsible for familiarizing themselves with the regulations concerning academic integrity and for ensuring that their assignments conform to the principles of academic integrity. Information on academic integrity is available in the Arts and Science Calendar (Academic Regulation 1), on the Arts and Science website (see http://www.queensu.ca/calendars/artsci/pg4.html), and from the instructor of this course. Departures from academic integrity include plagiarism, use of unauthorized materials, facilitation, forgery and falsification, and are antithetical to the development of an academic community at Queen's. Given the seriousness of these matters, actions which contravene the regulation on academic integrity carry sanctions that can range from a warning or the loss of grades on an assignment to the failure of a course to a requirement to withdraw from the university.

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