I seriously don't understand what compels pathoIogicaIIy verbose tardlettes to gurgle their mind-numbing inanities.
Its not that hard. At the lowest level course (which was covered in 10 weeks) we did all of Rudin, the first two chapters of Stein functional analysis and first two chapters of Stein Fourier analysis, which means things like Hilbert Space, dual space, orthogonality,… and all the convergent results in Fourier series. There were around 45 of us. The median student was a second year undergrad. Average grade was like 90%, exam difficulty is at level of the problems in Rudin/ Stein.
I find it funny that economists struggle with these things (or at least those on this site). The ability to do these low level maths doesnt signal anything. And yet most people here struggle with it. Some even decide to do a PhD in political science just because they are terrified at the idea of taking real analysis. Others are less extreme and choose to attend the course rather than taking for credit.
To be honest, while people on this site like to make fun of engineer/ medical students, I never heard of them complaining about the maths. In fact there were more engineers in my class taking analysis for fun, than economists who truly needed it for the admission. Story is the same even for classes that seem totally irrelevant to engineers like number theory
No wonder economics is dying and none is taking it seriously anymore. Most people are not passionate about research at all. At this point you guys are just bunch of 1d10t chasing prestige.