MATH2230B - Complex Variables with Applications - 2020/21

Course Name: 
Complex Variables with Applications
Teacher: 
Dr. Chia-Yu HSIEH
Course Year: 
2020/21
Term: 
2

Announcement

  • ZOOM links for lectures and tutorials will be announced on Blackboard.
  • The tutorial class starts from the second week.
  • Homework assignments should be submitted via Blackboard.
  • Homework 1 has been posted and is due on Jan. 25.
  • The midterm exam is scheduled on March 3.
  • Homework 2 has been posted and is due on Feb. 1.
  • Homework 3 has been posted and is due on Feb. 8.
  • Homework 4 has been posted and is due on Feb. 15.
  • Homework 5 has been posted and is due on Mar. 1.
  • Our midterm is scheduled on Mar. 3 online at the regular lecture time (17:30-18:15). Midterm cover topics from lecture 1 to lecture 12. Please join the zoom class 5-10 mins before the lecture time to adjust your camera. Your upper body including shoulders, arms and two hands should be shown in the screen. During the exam, no books and notes are allowed to use. After the exam, you have 10 mins to prepare submission. Please submit all your solutions via Blackboard. Your camera should still be in function during all your submission process.
  • For the midterm exam, please use paper and pen to answer, and scan your answers for submission.
  • Homework 6 has been posted and is due on Mar. 15.
  • Homework 7 has been posted and is due on Mar. 22.
  • Homework 8 has been posted and is due on Mar. 29.
  • Homework 9 has been posted and is due on Apr. 19.
  • Homework 10 (the last one) has been posted and is due on Apr. 26.
  • The final exam is scheduled on April 28, 15:30-17:30. It will cover all contents in the course.

General Information

Lecturer

  • Chia-Yu HSIEH
    • Office: LSB 232A
    • Email:
    • Office Hours: by appointment

Teaching Assistant

  • Kaihui LUO
    • Office: LSB 232
    • Email:
  • Tianhan YI
    • Office: LSB G08
    • Email:

Time and Venue

  • Lecture: Mo 12:30PM - 2:15PM; We 5:30PM - 6:15PM
  • Tutorial: We 3:30PM - 4:15PM

Course Description

This course is to introduce the basic properties of complex functions and analytic functions and to illustrate the important use of these theories to other branches of mathematics and sciences. Topics include: complex numbers; limits, continuity and derivatives, Cauchy-Riemann equations, analytic functions; elementary functions; mapping by elementary functions; Contours integrals, Cauchy-Goursat theorem, Cauchy integral formula, Morera’s theorem, maximum moduli of functions, the fundamental theorem of algebra; Taylor series and Laurent’s series; residues and poles, evaluation of infinite real integrals.


Textbooks

  • Complex Variables and Applications, Ninth Edition, by James Ward Brown / Ruel V. Churchill

References

  • Complex Analysis, Princeton Lectures in Analysis II, by Elias M. Stein / Rami Shakarchi
  • Complex Analysis: An Introduction to the Theory of Analytic Functions of One Complex Variable, Third Edition, by Lars V. Ahlfors

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Assessment Scheme

Homework 10%
Midterm 40%
Final 50%

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Last updated: April 25, 2021 16:00:00