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)
Scheduled reading/assignments/exams:
| M: Homework due 4pm | T: Have read | W | T: Have read | F: Homework due 4pm |
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Sep. 8 |
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12 Click here |
13 notes Through the end of 2.2: Holomorphic functions |
14 | 15 notes 1.2.3 Power series |
16 Ch. 1 Exercises 1, 3, 8, 10, 11, 13 |
19 Ch. 1 Exercise 12 |
20 notes 1.3: Integration along curves |
21 | 22 notes 1.3: Integration along curves |
23 Ch. 1 Exercises 9, 16(a-c), 18, 19 (can use Ex. 14), 24 |
26 Ch. 1 Exercise 17 |
27 notes 2.2 Cauchy's theorem on a disc |
28 | 29 notes 2.3 Toy contour integrals |
30 Ch. 1 Exercises 7a, 7b, 20, 23, 26 |
Oct. 3 |
4 notes 2.4 Cauchy's integral formulas (consequences) |
5 | 6 notes 2.5 Applications |
7 Ch. 2 Exercises 1, 2, 5, 6 |
10 Holiday |
11 notes 2.5 Schwarz reflection & Runge approximation |
12 | 13 notes 2.5 Runge approximation |
14 Ch. 2 Exercises 3, 7, 9, 12a |
17 Ch. 2 Problem 1a |
18 notes 3.1 Zeros & poles |
19 | 20 notes 3.3 Singularities, application of residues to integrals |
21 Ch 2. Exercises 10, 13, 14, 15 |
24 |
25 notes 3.3 Residue applications cont. |
26 | 27 - Exam 1 - |
28 No homework |
31
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Nov. 1 notes 3.3 Singularities; Riemann sphere |
2 | 3 notes Zeta function and prime numbers |
4 Ch. 3 Exercises 1, 3, 6, additional problem |
7 |
8 notes 3.3 Essential singularities & 3.4 Argument principle |
9 | 10 notes 3.5 General Cauchy's theorem |
11 Ch. 3 Problem 3, additional problem |
14 |
15 notes 3.6 Complex logarithm |
16 |
17 notes Linear fractional transformations |
18 Ch. 2 Problem 4, additional problem |
21 |
22 notes 8.1 Conformal equivalence: more examples; Riemann surfaces. |
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24 Happy Thanksgiving! |
25 No homework |
28 |
29 notes 8.2 Automorphisms of the disc |
30 | Dec. 1 notes 8.2 Automorphisms of the upper half plane |
2 No homework |
| 5 Optional Corrigendum |
6 notes Riemann mapping theorem, conformal invariance |
7 | 8 - Exam 2 - |
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| 12 | 13 | 14 |