Math 490: Topics in Mathematics (Complex Variables)

Section 1, January 2007

General Information

Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal Homepage)

Email: cstaecker@messiah.edu

Office: Frey 327

Office Hours: MTWTF 1-2

Textbook: Brown, Churchill, Complex Variables and Applications (Seventh edition).

Class Meetings: MWTRF 8:30-12:00, Jordan 163

Daily Schedule

Detailed class schedule (25KB PDF) LaTeX source

Other Materials

• Syllabus (76KB PDF) LaTeX source
• Green noses handout (33KB PDF) LaTeX source
• f(z) demo (1.5MB self-extracting Windows app)
• One more keyhole example (66KB PDF) LaTeX source

Coming Attractions

1/17: Exam 1, Homework #1 due:

Section 2: 1a, 2, 4
Section 3: 1, 5
Section 4: 4, 5b
Section 5: 1, 2, 10
Section 7: 1a, 2, 4, 5b, 10 (just do the "and then..." part)
Section 9: 1, 3, 6, 7
Section 10: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7
Section 11: 1, 2
Section 12: 7
Section 17: 5, 10, 11
Section 19: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8a,c (don't use the Cauchy Riemann equations here)
Section 22: 1a,c, 3, 5

1/24: Exam 2, Homework #2 due:

Section 24: 1a,c,d, 2, 4, 7
Section 28: 1, 3, 4 (two ways are C-R, and chain rule), 11
Section 30: 1, 2, 3, 7
Section 31: 1, 4
Section 32: 1, 2, 5, 6
Section 33: 2, 4, 7
Section 35: 1, 2b, 3, 6
Section 37: 2, 3, 5, 7
Section 40: 1, 3, 7, 10
Section 41: 1, 2, 4
Section 43: 1, 2, 3
Section 46: 1abcef, 2, 5
Section 48: 1abc, 2, 3

1/31: Exam 3, Homework #3 due:

Section 48: 4, 5, 7
Section 52: 2, 6, 7
Section 54: 2, 3, 6
Section 56: 1, 3, 4, 6 (do partial fractions to start)
Section 61: 1, 3
Section 64: 1abc, 2
Section 65: 1 (don't worry about "principal part")
Section 67: 2, 3, 4
Section 69: 3a, 4a
Section 72: 2, 3, 6, 7
Section 77: 5, 6b