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The document contains exercises from an Advanced Calculus course (MATH 314) for Winter 2025, focusing on topics such as open sets, continuity of functions, and differentiability in normed vector spaces. It includes specific problems that require the application of definitions and properties of continuous functions, as well as the use of projection maps and the gradient of a function. The exercises encourage the exploration of continuity and differentiability through various mathematical concepts and examples.

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The document contains exercises from an Advanced Calculus course (MATH 314) for Winter 2025, focusing on topics such as open sets, continuity of functions, and differentiability in normed vector spaces. It includes specific problems that require the application of definitions and properties of continuous functions, as well as the use of projection maps and the gradient of a function. The exercises encourage the exploration of continuity and differentiability through various mathematical concepts and examples.

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Winter 2025 - Advanced Calculus MATH 314

Exercise 1.
Using the projection maps:
f1 : (x, y) ∈ R2 7→ x, f2 : (x, y) ∈ R2 7→ y
Show that the sets:
{(x, y) ∈ R2 , x > 1}, {(x, y) ∈ R2 , y < −1}
are open.

Exercise 2.
Suppose that f :⊂ V → W is a continuous function, (V, ∥·∥) and (W, ∥·∥) are normed
vector spaces.
Using the definitions of continuity and the limit, show that if U ⊂ W is open then
f−1 (U) is open in V.
Hint: Write down what it means for a set to be open.

Exercise 3.
Using that multiplication (x, y) ∈ R2 7→ xy ∈ R is continuous and what you know about
product spaces, explain why (x, y, z) ∈ R3 7→ xyz is continuous.
Exercise 4.
Explaining your steps and using your previous knowledge about examples of continu-
ous functions, justify that the following functions are continuous:
(1) f : (x, y) 7→ ((1 − xy)23 , cos(x), sin(y) − x),
x 2 ex 2
(2) f : x 7→ ( 2−sin x , x ),
(3) f : (x, y, z) 7→ (cos(xyz), sin(x2 + z) − z),
(4) f : (t, x, y, z) 7→ t2 − x2 − y2 − z2 .
You do not need to use the definition here, just the rules of constructing continuous
functions from other continuous functions.

Exercise 5.
Let (V, ∥·∥V ) and (W, ∥·∥W ) be arbitrary normed vector spaces. Using the definition of
the fact f : U ⊂ V → W is differentiable at x0 , show that if f is differentiable at x0 then
it is continuous at x0 .
You may use without justification the fact that if l : V → W is a continuous linear
map then, there is M > 0 such that:
∥l(v)∥W ⩽ M∥v∥V .
Hint: Set h = x − x0 in the definition and, using the triangle inequality, try to control:
||f(x) − f(x0 )||W with ||x − x0 ||V .
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Winter 2025 - Advanced Calculus MATH 314

Exercise 6.
⃗
Let f : R3 → R be a differentiable function and let ∇f(p) be its gradient at some point
p = (x0 , y0 , z0 ). Can you make a conjecture about what the differential of f at p, dfp
should be?

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