Unit information: Analysis 1 in 2010/11

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Unit name Analysis 1
Unit code MATH11006
Credit points 20
Level of study C/4
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24)
Unit director Dr. McGillivray
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

Normally an A at A-level mathematics or equivalent.

Co-requisites

None

School/department School of Mathematics
Faculty Faculty of Science

Description including Unit Aims

Analysis introduces the style of logically precise formulation and reasoning that is characteristic of university-level mathematics; it studies the foundations of elementary calculus in this style. It starts from basic properties of the real numbers, and works up to a rigorous treatment of continuous and differentiable functions.