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0.1 To the student:

0.1 To the student: Since I give you these lecture notes, you might ask why should I go to class? or why should I pay attention in class?. Well, analysis is not something that comes easy to most people. I would highly recommend that you read ahead a little bit and come to class already having read the material. Then you can use the lecture time to fill in any gaps in your understanding and to make sure that you get the “big picture”. Since you don’t have to spend your class time copying everything from the board, you can actually spend more of the class time thinking about the material! Warning: There will be things discussed in class that are NOT in these notes, so you should copy those down. I would suggest that you use the reverse sides of the pages to write further notes, draw the diagrams, add my comments about “why” something is true, add your own thoughts and insights about the material, etc. Following along with the proofs in the class, trying to see the “big pi...