Math 126: Complex Analysis

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Required text:
Complex Analysis, Stein & Shakarchi

Recommended texts:
Visual Complex Analysis, Needham
Complex Analysis, Ahlfors

Both recommended texts are available for 3-hr building use at the Sciences Library Course Reserves desk (floor A), or for sale at Brown University Bookstore (the book by Ahlfors is used by Math 2250)

Syllabus & course policies

Scheduled reading/assignments/exams:

M: Homework due 4pm T: Have read W T: Have read F: Homework due 4pm
     

Sep. 8

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First day assignment for late registrants

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Through the end of 2.2: Holomorphic functions

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1.2.3 Power series

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Ch. 1 Exercises 1, 3, 8, 10, 11, 13

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Ch. 1 Exercise 12
Solutions 9/16-9/19

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1.3: Integration along curves

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1.3: Integration along curves
2.1 Goursat's theorem

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Ch. 1 Exercises 9, 16(a-c), 18, 19 (can use Ex. 14), 24

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Ch. 1 Exercise 17
Solution

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2.2 Cauchy's theorem on a disc

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2.3 Toy contour integrals
2.4 Cauchy's integral formulas

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Ch. 1 Exercises 7a, 7b, 20, 23, 26

Oct. 3

Ch. 1 Exercise 25
Solutions

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2.4 Cauchy's integral formulas (consequences)

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2.5 Applications

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Ch. 2 Exercises 1, 2, 5, 6

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Holiday

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2.5 Schwarz reflection & Runge approximation

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2.5 Runge approximation

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Ch. 2 Exercises 3, 7, 9, 12a

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Ch. 2 Problem 1a

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3.1 Zeros & poles
3.2 Residue formula

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3.3 Singularities, application of residues to integrals

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Ch 2. Exercises 10, 13, 14, 15

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Optional Corrigendum

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3.3 Residue applications cont.

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- Exam 1 -

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No homework

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3.3 Singularities; Riemann sphere

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Zeta function and prime numbers

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Ch. 3 Exercises 1, 3, 6, additional problem

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Optional Corrigendum

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3.3 Essential singularities & 3.4 Argument principle

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3.5 General Cauchy's theorem

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Ch. 3 Problem 3, additional problem

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Optional Corrigendum

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3.6 Complex logarithm
8.1 Conformal equivalence

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Linear fractional transformations

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Ch. 2 Problem 4, additional problem

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Optional Corrigendum

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8.1 Conformal equivalence: more examples; Riemann surfaces.

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No homework

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Optional Corrigendum

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8.2 Automorphisms of the disc

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8.2 Automorphisms of the upper half plane

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No homework

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Optional Corrigendum

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Riemann mapping theorem, conformal invariance

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