640:403 Spring 2025 Syllabus

Date Topic
1Jan 21 1.1. Complex numbers and the complex plane
2Jan 23 1.2. Some geometry
3Jan 28 1.3. Subsets of the plane
4Jan 30 1.4. Functions and limits
5Feb 4 1.5. The exponential, logarithm and trigonometric functions
6Feb 6 1.6. Line integrals and Green's theorem
7Feb 11 2.1. Analytic and harmonic functions; the Cauchy-Riemann equations
8Feb 13 2.2. Power series
9Feb 18 Review and catch up
10Feb 20 Midterm 1
11Feb 25 2.3. Cauchy's theorem and Cauchy's formula
12Feb 27 2.4. Consequences of Cauchy's formula
13Mar 4 2.4. Continued
14Mar 6 2.5. Isolated singularities
15Mar 11 2.5. Laurent series
16Mar 13 2.6. The residue theorem.
17Mar 25 2.6. Applications of the residue theorem
18Mar 27 3.1. The zeros of an analytic function
19Apr 1 Review and catch up.
20Apr 3 Midterm 2
21Apr 8 3.2. Maximum modulus and mean value
22Apr 10 3.3. Linear fractional transformations
23Apr 15 3.4. Conformal mapping
24Apr 17 3.5. The Riemann Mapping Theorem and Schwarz-Christoffel Transformations
25Apr 22 4.1. Harmonic functions
26Apr 24 The Gamma function
27Apr 29 The Riemann zeta function
28May 1 Review and catch up.