Course level

Postgraduate Coursework

Units

2

Duration

One Semester

Class hours

3 Lecture hours
1 Tutorial hour

Incompatible

MATH4401

Prerequisite

Permission of Head of School

Assessment methods

Examination, assignments

Course enquiries

Assoc Prof Bevan Thompson (hbt@maths.uq.edu.au)

This course is not currently offered, please contact the school or faculty of your program.

Course description

(Offered in semester 1 in odd years only) Banach spaces; compactness; Arzela-Ascoli theorem; contraction mappings. Rn theorems: Sard, Weierstrass; Tietze. Brouwer degree theory; Poincare-Bohl; Weighted sum formula; Borsuk Theorem; reduction theorem; applications to differential equations. Cones & nonnegative solutions. Schauder degree theory. Introduction to bifucation theory.