Albion College
Mathematics and Computer Science
COLLOQUIUM
The Naked Truth About The Baire Category Theorem
Clifford Weil
Professor
Department of Mathematics
Michigan State University
The talk will begin with a narrow discussion of the notion of a metric space. Examples presented will be those used later. Then the Baire Category Theorem will be stated and discussed. Finally the theorem wil be applied to prove the existence of a certain difficult to construct examples such as an everywhere continuous, but no where differentiable function. All will be connected to familiar concepts from calculus and will require theorems from advanced calculus.
3:10 PM
All are welcome!
Palenske 227
April 12, 2007