Course Log
Here you will find information about the material that was already covered or will be covered in the next few lectures.
Chapters and pages are from the textbook [Stein-Shakarchi].
Star * after the date indicates planned content.
| Date | Content | |
|---|---|---|
| Thur, 03/26* | Ch 5, pp. 142-146: Plancherel Formula, Extension, Weierstrass approximation theorem | |
| Tue, 03/24* | Ch 5, pp. 137-141: Fourier transform on the Schwartz space, Gaussian Functions, Fourier Inversion Formula | |
| Thur, 03/19* | No class (Spring Break) | |
| Tue, 03/17* | No class (Spring Break) | |
| Thur, 03/12* | No class (canceled to compensate for Mideterm Exam 1) | |
| Tue, 03/10 | Midterm Exam 1, 8:00-9:30pm, in KNOY B033 | |
| Tue, 03/10* | Ch 5, pp. 129-136: Integration on $\mathbb{R}$, Definition of Fourier Transform, Fourier Transform on the Schwartz space (start) | |
| Thur, 03/05 | Review for Midterm Exam 1 | |
| Tue, 03/03 | Ch 4, pp. 116-120: Continuous nowhere differentiable function (finish), Heat equation on circle | |
| Thur, 02/26 | Ch 4, pp. 109-116: Weyl’s equidistribution theorem (finish), Continuous nowhere differentiable function | |
| Tue, 02/24 | Ch 4, pp. 104-109: Isoperimetric inequality (finish), Weyl’s equidistribution theorem | |
| Thur, 02/19 | Ch 4, pp. 100-104: Curves, lengths, and area, Isoperimetric inequality | |
| Tue, 02/17 | Ch 3, pp. 84-87: Counterexample of diverging Fourier series, breaking the symmetry | |
| Thur, 02/12 | Ch 3, pp. 79-84: Mean-square convergence, Parseval’s identity, back to pointwise convergence, localization, Counterexample of diverging Fourier series (start) | |
| Tue, 02/10 | Ch 3, pp. 74-79: Hilbert and Pre-Hilbert spaces, Best Approximation, Bessel’s inequality | |
| Thur, 02/05 | Ch 2, pp. 56-58: Dirichlet problem; Ch 3, pp. 70-74: Review of Vector spaces and inner products. | |
| Tue, 02/03 | Ch 2, pp. 50-56: Good kernels, Cesaro means and summation, Fejer kernel, Abel means and summation, Poisson kernel | |
| Thur, 01/29 | Ch 2, pp. 44-51: Convolutions, good kernels | |
| Tue, 01/27 | Ch 2, pp. 39-44: Uniqueness of Fourier series | |
| Thur, 01/22 | Ch 2, pp. 33-38: Functions on unit circle, Definition of Fourier series, Dirichlet and Poisson kernels. | |
| Tue, 01/20 | Ch 1, pp. 18-23: Heat equation, Laplace’s equation; Ch 2, pp. 29-33: Riemann integrable functions | |
| Thur, 01/15 | Ch 1, pp. 11-18: Standing waves, separation of variables, Fourier sine series, Fourier series, plucked string | |
| Tue, 01/13 | Ch 1, pp. 1-11: Simple harmonic motion, derivation of wave equation, traveling waves, D’Alembert’s formula |