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Introduction to Complex Analysis

  • Winter semester 2024
  • Course: MATH 3210
  • Course record number: 20309
  • Instructor: Y. Sommerhäuser
  • Schedule:
    • Time: Mon, Wed, Fri 12:00 m-12:50 pm
    • Room: C 3053
  • Office hours of Y. Sommerhäuser: Mon, Fri 1:30 pm-2:30 pm and by appointment
  • Textbook: J. W. Brown/R. V. Churchill: Complex Variables and Applications, 7th ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 2004 (required resource)
  • Outline: The course examines complex numbers, analytic functions of a complex variable, differentiation of complex functions and the Cauchy-Riemann equations, complex integration, Cauchy's theorem, Taylor and Laurent series, residue theory and applications.
  • Examinations: There will be a midterm examination and a comprehensive final examination. The midterm examination takes place on Wednesday, February 14 during regular class time in our usual classroom. The final examination takes place on Friday, April 19, from 9:00 am to 12:00 m in SN 2041.
  • Homework: Beginning Monday of the second week (January 15), a weekly exercise sheet will be handed out. This has to be submitted in class on the following Monday. There will be no exercise sheet during the week of the midterm examination and no exercise sheets during the last two weeks of the semester. In addition, a reading assignment from the textbook will be given in every lecture.
  • Prerequisite: MATH 3000 (Real Analysis I)
  • Examination criteria: The final mark will be computed using the following weights.
    • Homework: 25 percent
    • Midterm examination: 25 percent
    • Final examination: 50 percent
  • Policies: Eating, drinking, and smoking are not permitted in the classroom. You are expected to be present at every class meeting, from the beginning to the end. Attendance will be taken and used to make decisions in borderline cases. The use of electronic devices, especially cellphones, calculators, and laptop computers, is not permitted without explicit permission of the instructor. Electronic devices have to be turned off completely.
  • Syllabus.
  • Notes on complex numbers by Shannon Sullivan.
  • Exercise sheets:

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