Instructor: Christoph Thiele, MS 6191 (thiele@math.ucla.edu)

Lectures: MWF 10-10.50, at MS 5138

Discussion Sessions: Tuesday 10-10.50, MS 5138

Office hours: MWF 11-11.30, W 1-2.

TA: Tye Lidman, Office Hours M 1-2, F 12-1

Textbook: Elementray Analysis: The Theory of Calculus , K.A. Ross. For most of the topics there are useful Wikipedia pages as well. A tentative syllabus is available online.

Homework: Homework assignments are posted on the web. The first assignment is due Friday Oct 2 in the lecture, subsequent assignments are due Tuesdays in the TA session. Graded homework will be returned the following Tuesday. No late homework will be accepted. Homework assignments are from the book by Ross. Each homework includes the assignment of reading the relevant sections in Ross' book, and reviewing the necessary past sections of the book. On some Wednesdays (unannounced), a 10-15 min quiz will be given. The quiz will consist of one homework problem that was due the previous Tuesday. Quizzes will be graded more thoroughly than homework and will provide better feedback than the homework.

Examinations: There will be two mid-terms during the course, on Monday, Oct 19 available afterwards. and Monday, Nov 16 available afterwards. (both at usual lecture time and location), as well as a final examination on Wednesday Dec. 09 at 3-6 pm at a room to be announced. The last lecture before the first midterm and the final will be a review session: during these lectures you will be given the chance to ask questions about the topics for the exams. There are no makeup exams. You need to participate in at least one midterm and in the final to obtain a grade other than F for the course.

Grading: The following is required to complete the course: Participation in the final exam, participation in at least one midterm, and satisfactory and timely completion of at least 33 percent of the assigned homework problems.
You will obtain a grade for each midterm and for the final. If you missed one midterm, this midterm grade will be filled in with the grade of the final exam. If you participated in both midterms, and the grade of the final exam is better than the worse of the two midterm grades, then the worse of the two midterm grades will be replaced by the final exam grade. The total grade is the average of the three grades. Note that the policy of possibly replacing the worse midterm grade by the final exam grade will have the effect that the grading curve for the total grade will be better than the grading curve for the midterms. Satisfactory or unsatisfactory homework/quizzes will be used as tie breaker if the average is between two grades. Definition of satisfactory is the sole discretion of the instructor, and will depend on between which grades the tie is to be broken.

Calculators and written materials: You may use whatever resources you wish to do the homework, including calculators, textbooks, friends, TAs, etc., although by the end of the course you should be able to do all the homework questions without any assistance. No calculators or texts will be allowed in the mid-terms and finals, but one (two for the final) 5x7 index cards will be permitted (but not required) for each exam.

Course page: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~thiele/131a.1.09f