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

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.