2016 Fall Course Syllabus - Mathematics 4051.001
Course: Mathematics 4051.001.
Course Title: Complex Analysis.
Time: MWF 10:00-10:50.
Place: Wachman 009.
Instructor: Jeromy Sivek.
Instructor Office: Wachman 1025.
Instructor Email: sivek@temple.edu
Instructor Phone: (215) 204-7841.
Office Hours: MWF 2:45-4:45 (These will be slightly modified as the semester begins).
Prerequisites: Math 3142 with a grade of C- or higher or Math 3138 with a grade of C or higher.
Textbook: John B. Conway, Functions of One Complex Variable I, 2nd edition, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 11, Springer Verlag, 1978.
Course Goals: The object of this course is to introduce students to the basic concepts and techniques of complex analysis.
Topics Covered: Complex numbers and their properties, analytic functions, Cauchy's Theorem and Integral Formula and their consequences, series representation of analytic functions, calculus of residues, other topics if time allows.
Course Grading: Quizzes: 10%, Written Homework: 15%, Midterm Exam 20%, Course Project: 20%, Final Exam: 35%.
Exam Dates: The midterm will be on approximately Friday, October 14. The final exam will be held during the final exam week, with our exam time scheduled for Friday, December 16 at 8AM.
Attendance Policy: Missing classes is entirely at your own risk. If you miss a class without a very good reason, please ask your classmate for his/her class notes and be prepared to learn the material on your own.
Recitation: This course has a scheduled recitation on Friday mornings with Rabie Ali Ramadan. The problems that you do with Rabie will be an important part of developing an understanding of this material. There will be a quiz in recitation approximately every other week.
Supplementary Materials: Our textbook is very good and somewhat dense, which is to say that many of the statements in the text are built on a deep foundation left implicit by the author. There are many bigger, more explanatory (and more introductory) texts available on Complex variables in Temple's library. Grabbing one of them as a companion for this course might be helpful.
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