List of real analysis topics

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This is a list of real analysis topics.

Note: The topics are in a deliberately chosen order, for the use of students.

Contents 1 Basic technique 2 Foundations 3 Fundamental theorems 4 Conditions on real functions 5 Inequalities 6 Multivariable calculus 7 Measure 8 Distributions 9 Fractional calculus 10 Fourier series, Fourier transform 11 Fractals 12 History

Basic technique

• Sequence
• Supremum and infimum
• Limit of a sequence
• Monotone convergence theorem
• Cauchy sequence
• Limit superior and limit inferior
• Limit (mathematics)
  • How to evaluate the limit of a real-valued function
  • Table of common limits
• Oscillation (mathematics)
• Infinite series
• Geometric series
• Harmonic series (mathematics)
• Alternating series
• Telescoping series
• Binomial series
• Summation by parts
• Infinite product
• Convergence
  • Pointwise convergence
  • Integral test for convergence
  • Uniform convergence
  • Abel's theorem
  • Cesàro mean, Cesàro summation
• Interval (mathematics)
• Support
• Vanish at infinity
• Asymptotic notation
• Asymptotic analysis
• Extended real number line
• Partition of an interval
• Cantor set and Cantor space
• Sigma-algebra

Foundations

• Construction of real numbers
• Dedekind cut

Fundamental theorems

• Rolle's theorem
• Mean value theorem
• Intermediate value theorem
• Euclidean space
• Heine-Borel theorem
• Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem

Conditions on real functions

• Continuous function
• Uniform continuity
• Semi-continuity
• Modulus of continuity
• Monotonic
• Convex function
  • Proper convex function
• Smooth function
  • An infinitely differentiable function that is not analytic
• Lipschitz continuity
• Nowhere continuous
  • Dirichlet function
  • Darboux function
• Weierstrass function
• Contraction mapping
• Analytic function
• Integrable function
  • Square-integrable, p-integrable function
• Bounded variation
• Devil's staircase
  • Cantor function (example)
• Equicontinuous
• Weakly harmonic

Inequalities

See list of inequalities

• Bernoulli's inequality
• Inequality of arithmetic and geometric means
  • Generalized mean
  • Geometric-harmonic mean
  • Harmonic mean
  • Weighted mean
  • Generalised f-mean
  • Arithmetic geometric mean
• Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
• Triangle inequality
• Hölder's inequality
• Minkowski inequality
• Jensen's inequality
• Chebyshev's inequality

Multivariable calculus

See also list of multivariable calculus topics

• Riemann sum
• Riemann integral
• Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
• Riemann-Stieltjes integral
• Improper integral
• Cauchy principal value
• Darboux integral
• Gamma function
• Rectifiable curve
• Path integral
• An elegant rearrangement of a conditionally convergent iterated integral
• Power series
• Lagrange inversion theorem
• Orthogonal polynomials
• Directional derivative
• Banach fixed point theorem
• Inverse function theorem
• Implicit function theorem
• Submersion
• Lagrange multiplier

Measure

For topics relating to measure theory and the Lebesgue integral, see list of integration and measure theory topics; and also list of probability theory topics

Distributions

• Dirac delta function
• Heaviside step function
• Hilbert transform
• Green's function

Fractional calculus

• Differintegral

Fourier series, Fourier transform

See list of harmonic analysis and representation theory topics

Fractals

See list of fractal topics

• Hausdorff dimension
• Sierpinski triangle
• Cantor dust
• Sierpinski carpet
• Menger sponge

History

• Michel Rolle (1652-1719)
• Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736-1813)
• Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830)
• Augustin Cauchy (1789-1857)
• Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805-1859)
• Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897)
• Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866)
• Richard Dedekind (1831-1916)
• Rudolf Lipschitz (1832-1903)
• Georg Cantor
• Pafnuty Chebyshev
• Camille Jordan
• Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909)
• Henri Lebesgue
• Émile Borel (1871-1956)
• Felix Hausdorff
• Waclaw Sierpinski
• Karl Menger
• Johann Radonpt:Tópicos em análise real