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Undergraduate Course: Metric Spaces (MATH10049)

Course Outline
School School of Mathematics College College of Science and Engineering
Course type Standard Availability Available to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken) SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) Credits 10
Home subject area Mathematics Other subject area Specialist Mathematics & Statistics (Honours)
Course website https://info.maths.ed.ac.uk/teaching.html Taught in Gaelic? No
Course description Optional course for Honours Degrees involving Mathematics and/or Statistics. Syllabus summary: Countable sets; open and closed subsets of R; analysis on Rk, open and closed sets; metric spaces, open and closed sets, limits, continuity, equivalent metrics, path-connectedness; completeness, contraction mapping theorem and applications; compactness.
Entry Requirements
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: ( Foundations of Calculus (MATH08005) AND Several Variable Calculus (MATH08006) AND Linear Algebra (MATH08007) AND Methods of Applied Mathematics (MATH08035)) OR ( Mathematics for Informatics 3a (MATH08042) AND Mathematics for Informatics 3b (MATH08043) AND Mathematics for Informatics 4a (MATH08044) AND Mathematics for Informatics 4b (MATH08045))
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites None
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1) WebCT enabled:  Yes Quota:  None
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
King's BuildingsLecture1-11 10:00 - 10:50
King's BuildingsLecture1-11 10:00 - 10:50
First Class Week 1, Monday, 10:00 - 10:50, Zone: King's Buildings. Joseph Black Building, Lecture Theatre 100, G.009
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours:Minutes Stationery Requirements Comments
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)2:0016 sides. No YAF
Resit Exam Diet (August)2:0016 sides. No YAFc/w U01644. 2008 only
Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Part-year visiting students only (VV1) WebCT enabled:  No Quota:  None
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
King's BuildingsLecture1-11 10:00 - 10:50
King's BuildingsLecture1-11 10:00 - 10:50
First Class Week 1, Monday, 10:00 - 10:50, Zone: King's Buildings. Joseph Black Building, Lecture Theatre 100, G.009
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours:Minutes Stationery Requirements Comments
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)Metric Spaces (Visiting Student)2:0016 sides
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
1. Facility in working with concrete metric spaces based upon Rk and C[a,b] (with various metrics) and the discrete metric.
2. An ability to perform simple abstract arguments involving metric spaces.
3. An ability to demonstrate an understanding of notions such as openness, closedness, continuity, completeness, equivalence of metrics, compactness and path-connectedness as applied in the context of general and specific metric spaces.
4. An appreciation of the contraction mapping theorem and some of its easier applications.
Assessment Information
Examination only.
Visiting Student Variant Assessment
Examination (100%)
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
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Study Abroad Not entered
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Keywords MSp
Contacts
Course organiser Dr Adri Olde-Daalhuis
Tel: (0131 6)50 5992
Email: A.OldeDaalhuis@ed.ac.uk
Course secretary Mrs Kathryn Mcphail
Tel: (0131 6)50 4885
Email: k.mcphail@ed.ac.uk
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