Syllabus for Fall 1999
Instructor: Professor L. E. Levine llevine@stevens-tech.edu 201-216-5425
Office: Kidde 112
Office Hours: Mondays 12:00 - 1:00 and Wednesdays 4:45 - 6:00
Lectures: Wednesdays 6:30 - 8:45
Grading: Homework - 30 %; Midterm - 30%; Final - 40%
All homework is to be done in Scientific Notebook.
Week | Topics | Homework | Homework Solutions |
1 | Number Systems: real numbers, fields, ordering, complex numbers, vector spaces, metric spaces | Exercises1 | Ex1 Solutions |
2 | The complex plane: geometry of complex numbers, polar coordinates, polynomials, rational powers and roots | Exercises2 | Ex2 Solutions |
3 | Topology of the plane, connectedness, domains, stereographic projection, sequences, the Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem, complex functions | Exercises3 | Ex3 Solutions |
4 | Continuity, differentiability, Cauchy-Riemann equations, harmonic functions | Exercises4 | Ex4 Solutions |
5 | Exponential and trig functions, logarithm, | Exercises5 | Ex5 Solutions |
6 | Power series | Exercises6 | Ex6 Solutions |
7 | Complex Integration | Exercises7 | Ex7 Solutions |
8 | Midterm | ||
9 | The Cauchy Integral Theorem | Exercises9 | Ex9 Solutions |
10 | Cauchy Integral Formula
Consequences of the Cauchy Integral Formula |
Exercises10 | Ex10 Solutions |
11 | Taylor Series, Laurent's Theorem | Exercises11 | Ex11 Solutions |
12 | Singularities and their classification | Exercises12 | Ex12 Solutions |
13 | Residue theorem and its applications | Exercises13 | Ex13 Solutions |
14 | Further applications | Exercises14 | Ex14 Solutions |