Complementi di matematica per chimici e biologi

Academic year 2021/2022
Lecturer Gian Maria Dall'Ara, Giulia Livieri

Integrative teaching

Franco Flandoli

Exercises

Examination procedure

Written and oral exam

Prerequisites

First year students in Biology and Chemistry

Syllabus

Basics of Mathematics

Logic and sets; natural, integer, rational and real numbers.

Analysis

Sequences and Series

Limit and convergence; Cauchy sequences.

Metric and Topological Spaces

Open and closed sets; neighborhoods.

Limits and Continuity

Limits of real functions; lim sup and lim inf; continuity and Weiestrass theorem.

Differential Canculus

Rolle, Cauchy, Lagrange and De L'Hopital theorems; Taylor formula and series.

Integration

Riemann integral; fundamental theorem of calculus.

Functions of Many Variables

Continuity; partial derivatives; gradient; differential and differentiability; critical points and Hessian.

Bibliographical references

Notes given by the teacher.

Mariano Giaquinta, Giuseppe Modica, Analisi matematica, Volume 1: Funzioni di una variabile. Pitagora, 1998.

Carlo Domenico Pagani, Sandro Salsa, Analisi matematica 1, Second edition. Zanichelli, 2015