MATH3611 is a Mathematics Level III course. See the course overview below.

Units of credit: 6

Prerequisites: 12 units of credit of Level II Mathematics courses with an average mark of at least 70 or higher, including MATH2111 or MATH2011 (Credit), or permission from Head of Department.

Exclusions: MATH3570, MATH3610, MATH3620

Cycle of offering: yearly in Semester 1

Graduate attributes: the course will enhance your research, inquiry and analytical thinking abilities.

More information: this recent course handout (pdf) contains information about course objectives, assessment, course materials and the syllabus. (This pdf will usually be updated by the end of the first week of the semester.)

The Online Handbook entry contains up-to-date timetabling information.

If you are currently enrolled in MATH3611, you can log into the My eLearning Vista instance of this course.

Limits and continuity are the central concepts of calculus in one and several variables. These concepts can be extended to quite general situations. The simplest of these is when there is some way of measuring the distance between two objects. Some of the most important examples of these `metric spaces' occur as sets of functions, so this course looks at ways in which one might say that a sequence of functions converges. Taking these ideas one step further, we look at convergence which does not come from a generalized distance function. These are the ideas of point set topology. The course will include topics such as countability, continuity, uniform convergence, compactness and connectedness. This is not a `computational' course, but rather one in which you will develop your ability to think and write abstractly, precisely and creatively.