Math 185: Introduction to Complex Analysis

Instructor:

Andrey Smirnov, smirnov@math.berkeley.edu

Lectures:

Etcheverry 3107, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8-9:30 AM

Office hours:

Mondays 8.10-9.40 am, Fridays 11-12am Evans Hall 859

If you have any questions about the course and matherial please come see me.
Please email me and ask for appointment if the office hours time is not convenient for you.

Text Book:

Brown and Churchill, Complex Variables and Applications, 9th edtition

Additional books:

Gamelin, Complex Analysis, Elias Stein and Rami Shakarchi, Complex Analysis 

Grading: 30% Homework, 30% Midterms, 40% Final. 


TA:

Brandon Thomas Williams will be helping with questions and proble solving

Tu/Th 10-12am and MFW 1-3pm at Evans 732.

Homework

There will be one homework every one or two weeks. They will be posted on this page together with the due date. Late homework will not be accepted under any circumstance. However, your two lowest homework grades will not be included in the final grade calculation. Discussing of the problems with other students is encouraged.

Exams

There will be two midterm exams on September 15 and November 8. The midterms will be in class. The final exam is on Wed. December 14, 3pm-6pm at Tan 180. In the case of a fire alarm during either of the midterms or the final exam, leave your exams in the room, face down, before evacuating. Under no circumstances should you take the exam with you.

Special Accommodations

If you have a documented disability and require special accommodations of any kind, please e-mail me as soon as possible, and no later than September 13.

 

 

Tentative Schedule

Numbers in the reading section correspond to Brown and Churchill, 9th edition book.

# Date Topic Readings Hw Notes
1 8/25 Introduction, basics of complex numbers 1-8    
2 8/30 Analytic funcrions, mappings, exponent 9-14 HW1 Out  
3 9/1 Limits, continuity, derivatives 15-20    
4 9/6

Cauchy-Riemann equations

21-24    
5 9/8 Analytic functions 25-27 HW1 Due  
6 9/13 Problem Solving 20-40 HW2 Out  
7 9/15 Miderm1    
8 9/20 exp and log 30-34    
9 9/22 Midterm solution, power and trig fucntions 35-40  
9 9/27 Integrals 40-44 HW3 Out, HW 2 Due  
10 9/29 contour integrals 44-47  
11 10/4 antiderivatives 48-49 HW 3 Due, HW4 Out  
12 10/6 Cauchy Goursat theorem 50-53  
13 10/11 Cauchy integral formula 54 HW 4 Due,HW5 Out Notes1
14 10/13 extension of CIF 55-57 Notes2
15 10/18 Liouville's theorem, max modulus 58-59 HW5 Due, HW6 Out  
16 10/20 Taylor series 60-64    
17 10/25 Laurent series 65-68 HW6 Due HW7 Out  
18 10/27 Integration differentiation of series 69-72    
19 11/1 Operations on power series 73    
20 11/3 Problem solving for midterm 41-73 HW7 Due  
21 11/8 Midterm 2      
22 11/10 Residues and poles 1 74-84    
23 11/15 Residues and poles 2 74-84 HW8 Out  
24 11/17 Applications of residues 1 85-90    
25 11/22 Applications of residues 1 90-95 HW8 Due, HW9 Out  
26 11/24 No class, academic holiday      
27 11/29 Mappings by elementary fucntions 96-111    
28 12/1 Conformal mappings 112-117    
29 12/6 Applications 1 118-121    
30 12/8 Applications 2 122-126    
31 12/14 Final exam, 3-6pm at 180 Tan