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    Calculus (Stewart)

    • chain rule
    • derivatives of maps \(\RR^m\to\RR^n\)
    • explicit solutions of simple equations
    • Gauss’s theorem
    • gradient
    • Green’s theorem
    • Lagrange multipliers
    • line and surface integrals of scalar and vector functions
    • maxima and minima
    • ordinary differential equations
    • Stokes’ theorem
    • the differential of a smooth map between open subsets of Euclidean spaces; the matrix of partial derivatives; the inverse and implicit function theorems; multivariable Riemann integration

    Linear algebra

    • adjoints of linear transformations
    • basis and dimension
    • canonical forms
    • Cayley–Hamilton theorem
    • change of basis
    • characteristic and minimal polynomials
    • determinants
    • diagonalization and triangularization of operators
    • diagonalization of Hermitian and symmetric matrices
    • dual spaces
    • eigenvalues
    • eigenvectors
    • exponentiation of matrices and application to differential equations
    • Gaussian elimination
    • Gram–Schmidt process
    • Hermitian and unitary operators
    • inner product spaces
    • invariant subspaces
    • Jordan normal form
    • least squares problems
    • linear transformations
    • LU decomposition
    • nullity
    • rank–nullity theorem
    • orthogonal and unitary matrices
    • orthogonality
    • orthonormality
    • quadratic forms
    • rank
    • rational canonical form
    • row-reduced form
    • similarity of matrices
    • solvability criteria
    • subspaces
    • symmetric matrices
    • systems of linear equations
    • trace
    • vector spaces
    • finite-dimensional vector spaces over \(\RR\) and linear maps between them: subspaces, quotient spaces, dimension, bases, matrix representations; positive definite inner products, orthonormal bases, extension of orthonormal subsets to orthonormal bases; eigenvalues and eigenvectors of automorphisms; the characteristic polynomial

    Algebra (Artin, Herstein)

    • automorphisms
    • cyclic groups
    • dihedral groups
    • Euclidean domains
    • fields of fractions
    • finite field extensions
    • finite fields
    • finitely generated abelian groups
    • groups
    • groups acting on sets
    • homomorphisms
    • ideals
    • matrix groups
    • maximal ideals
    • normal subgroups
    • permutation groups
    • polynomial rings
    • prime ideals
    • principal ideal domains
    • quotient groups
    • quotient rings
    • rings
    • roots of polynomials
    • subgroups
    • Sylow theorems and applications
    • unique factorization domains
    • units
    • definitions of groups, rings, fields, and modules over a ring; homomorphisms of these objects; subgroups, normal subgroups, quotient groups; cyclic groups, the structure theorem for finite abelian groups; ideals, prime and maximal ideals, and their quotients, with the examples \(\ZZ\), \(k[X]\), and rings of algebraic integers; field extensions, splitting fields of polynomials, normal extensions

    Real analysis (Rudin)

    • accumulation points
    • Arzelà–Ascoli theorem
    • Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem
    • boundary points
    • Cauchy sequences
    • Cauchy–Schwarz inequality
    • chain rule
    • change of variables formula
    • closure
    • compactness
    • compactness in function spaces
    • completeness
    • connectedness
    • continuity
    • contraction maps
    • convergence of improper integrals
    • convergence of sequences of numbers and functions
    • definition of differentiability in several variables (approximating linear transformation)
    • differentiation under the integral sign
    • Dini’s theorem
    • epsilon-delta arguments
    • equality of mixed partials
    • equicontinuity
    • existence and uniqueness theorems for solutions of ordinary differential equations
    • fixed point theory
    • Fourier series
    • fundamental theorem of calculus
    • Heine–Borel theorem
    • implicit function theorem
    • interior points
    • intermediate value theorem
    • inverse function theorem
    • least upper bound property of \(\RR\)
    • limit points
    • limits
    • limsup and liminf
    • maxima and minima
    • mean value theorem for integrals
    • multivariable integration
    • numerical integration with error estimation
    • open and closed sets
    • order axioms
    • partial derivatives
    • radius of convergence
    • Riemann integral
    • sequences and series of functions
    • series
    • spaces of functions
    • Stone–Weierstrass theorem
    • supremum and infimum
    • Taylor expansion in several variables
    • Taylor expansion with remainder
    • the derivative
    • the derivative as a linear map
    • the mean value theorem
    • topology of \(\RR^n\) and metric spaces; properties of continuous functions
    • triangle inequalities
    • uniform continuity
    • uniform convergence and integration
    • uniform convergence and its relation to derivatives and integrals
    • Weierstrass \(M\)-test

    Complex analysis (Ahlfors)

    • analytic functions
    • analyticity of limit functions
    • argument principle
    • basic properties of harmonic functions in the plane
    • basic properties of the complex number system
    • Cauchy–Riemann equations
    • Cauchy’s integral formula
    • Cauchy’s theorem
    • classification of isolated singularities, including a singularity at \(\infty\)
    • complex roots
    • conformal equivalences of the unit disk with itself and with the upper half-plane
    • conformality
    • elementary functions and their basic properties
    • evaluation of definite integrals
    • exponential function
    • harmonic conjugates
    • isolation of zeros
    • Liouville’s theorem
    • logarithm function
    • mapping properties of linear fractional transformations
    • maximum principle
    • residue theorem
    • mean value property
    • Morera’s theorem
    • power series and Laurent series
    • rational functions
    • Rouché’s theorem
    • Schwarz lemma
    • trigonometric functions
    • definition of holomorphic functions, the Cauchy integral formula, power series representations of holomorphic functions, radius of convergence, meromorphic functions, residues

    Topology

    • open and closed sets, continuous functions; connectedness, compactness, the Hausdorff property, normality; metric spaces, \(\RR^n\), the Heine–Borel theorem

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