MATH 401 - Advanced Calculus I & MATH 501 - Advanced Calculus I
Class Time: 9:30 - 10:45 TR in SMLC 120
TA section: 8:00 – 8:50 in Mitchell Hall 221.
Instructor: Dimiter Vassilev. Office: SMLC 326 Email: vassilev@unm.edu Phone: 505 277 2136
Class Time: TR 12:30 - 13:45 in DSH-129
Professor Office Hours: TTh 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm. You can also stop by my office if you have a quick question or you can send me an email to arrange a meeting.
TA Instructor: Lihang Liu <leonabouttime@unm.edu>
TA section: 8:00 – 8:50 in Mitchell Hall 221
TA Office Hour: TBD
Please note the following information. The communication of all course information, including the homework, will rely on MS Teams and the associated OneNote. You need to be registered for the course with a @unm.edu email. Any other email will disable features of Microsoft Teams. I will send you by email a link to join the MATH 401 & 501 team. Alternatively, you can use the link in the course page on Canvas to request access.
NOTE: This Syllabus page will not be updated after August 28 - use the MATH 401 7 501 MS Team for current information.
Description: Rigorous treatment of calculus in one variable. Definition and topology of real numbers, sequences, limits, functions, continuity, differentiation and integration. Students will learn how to read, understand and construct mathematical proofs. Prerequisites: Prerequisite: 2531 and two MATH courses 300-level or above.
Textbook: Introduction to Real Analysis, 4th Edition by Robert G. Bartle and Donald R. Sherbert.
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Final Exam: TBD, https://schedule.unm.edu/final-exams/. It is the student's responsibility to inform their instructors before TBD, if they have conflicts with this exam schedule. The Scheduling Office must be notified before TBD. Exams will take place in the rooms in which the individual classes have been meeting.
Please note the following guidelines for the course:
Attendance and Conduct : Attendance at UNM is mandatory, see policy. Disruptive behavior will result in a student being asked to leave a class meeting, which will be recorded as an unexcused absence and the student will be dropped after 5 unexcused absences. In order to avoid any FERPA violations and privacy issues you are not allowed to record or take photos while in the classroom. Student Code of Conduct :: The Pathfinder - UNM Student Handbook | The University of New Mexico
Grades: The final grade will be determined by homework (10%), two midterms (50%) and a final exam (40%).
Bonus Points: Each submitted lecture is worth .5 of a point. Note that each lecture has to be submitted in a separate page in your "Class Notes" section and the page has to be labeled in the format "Lecture # Date", for example the first lecture in the course should be labeled "Lecture 1 08/18/26". The total of your bonus points will be added to your total (as a bonus!).
Although a small curve might be used, 90% , 80% or 70% of the possible maximum points guarantees at least a grade in the ranges of A(A-, A, A+), B (B-, B, B+) or C (C-,C, C+), respectively.
Missed Exams: Make-up exams can be arranged for exams missed with a VALID excuse (illness, family emergency, active participation in scholarly or athletic activities), and ONLY if prior notice is given unless there was an emergency.
Accommodations: UNM is committed to providing equitable access to learning opportunities for students with documented disabilities. As your instructor, it is my objective to facilitate an inclusive classroom setting, in which students have full access and opportunity to participate. To engage in a confidential conversation about the process for requesting reasonable accommodations for this class and/or program, please contact Accessibility Resource Center at arcsrvs@unm.edu or 505-277-3506.
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Credit-hour statement: This is a four-credit-hour course. Class meets for two 75-minute sessions of direct instruction for fifteen weeks during the Fall 2025 semester and one 50 minutes TA section. Please plan for a minimum of six hours of out-of-class work (or homework, study, assignment completion, and class preparation) each week.
Homework: Homework is due every Tuesday at the beginning of the class (hard copies). It will be posted in Homework (Web view) and accessed also through the MS Team. I encourage you to work on the homework with your classmates; while not forbidden, using generative AI to complete submitted coursework in this course might interfere with the advantages in learning and understanding that this course offers you. In all cases you are required to write up your own solutions in your own words. To help the grader, please write your solutions neatly using correct grammar and mathematical notation (no points will be given for work that the reader cannot follow). The ten best homework grades will be used in computing the homework score. Please do not turn-in late homework! You should see me as early and as often as necessary if you are having difficulties with the homework problems .
Topics to be covered. (The day-to-day schedule will be posted at Schedule MATH 401 501 Fall 2026 (Web view) )
1 PRELIMINARIES : Sets and Functions; Mathematical Induction; Finite and Infinite Sets
2 THE REAL NUMBERS: The Algebraic and Order Properties; Absolute Value and the Real Line; The Completeness Property; Applications of the Supremum Property; Intervals
3 SEQUENCES AND SERIES: Sequences and Their Limits; Limit Theorems; Monotone Sequences; Subsequences and the Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem; The Cauchy Criterion; Properly Divergent Sequences; Introduction to Infinite Series
4 LIMITS: Limits of Functions; Limit Theorems
5 CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS: Combinations of Continuous Functions; Continuous Functions on Intervals; Uniform Continuity; Monotone and Inverse Functions
6 DIFFERENTIATION: The Derivative; The Mean Value Theorem; L'Hospital's Rules; Taylor's Theorem
7 THE RIEMANN INTEGRAL: Riemann Integral; Riemann Integrable Functions; The Fundamental Theorem; The Darboux Integral
8 SEQUENCES OF FUNCTIONS: Pointwise and Uniform Convergence; Interchange of Limits; The Exponential and Logarithmic Functions; The Trigonometric Functions
9 INFINITE SERIES: Absolute Convergence; Tests for Absolute Convergence; Tests for Non-absolute Convergence; Series of Functions
10 THE GENERALIZED RIEMANN INTEGRAL - Improper and Lebesgue Integrals; Infinite Intervals; Convergence Theorems