C OMPLEX VARIABLES MAT334

MWF 9am SS 2135 Instructor: Dejan Slep ev c Ofce: ES 3143 (Earth Sciences building, 22 Russel St.) Ofce Hours: Monday 11-1, Wednesday 10-11 Phone: (416) 946-5442 E-mail: slepcev@math.toronto.edu Course webpage: www.math.toronto.edu/slepcev/M334/ Textbook: Complex Variables by S. Fisher (2nd edition, published by Dover) Description. This is an introductory course into the analysis of functions of complex variables. Prerequisite is knowledge of calculus of functions of several variables. The topics covered include: introduction to the complex plane, functions of complex variables and their properties, notion of analytic functions, Cauchys theorem and integral formula, notion of meromorphic functions and residue calculus (with application to evaluating integrals), conformal mappings, and introduction to harmonic functions. Evaluation. The course grade will be based on homework assignments (10%), two term tests (20% each), and the nal exam (50%). The term tests will be 50 minute tests conducted in class on February 11 and March 17. Many of the problems will ask you to nd something (for example compute something), but a good number of problems will ask you to show something (in other words, to prove something). You will not be asked to reproduce proofs of theorems from the lectures. However you may be asked to give the statements of the theorems. Homework will be assigned weekly. The problem sets, along with the due dates will be posted on the course webpage. There will be 11 problem sets (10 best count for the grade). Late homeworks will not be accepted. Most of the problems will be exercises from the textbook. A PPROXIMATE S CHEDULE Jan. 5-9 Algebra and geometry of complex numbers (arithmetic, complex conjugation, modulus, argument, polar representation, roots and powers of complex numbers) . . . . . . . Sec 1.1, 1.2 Jan. 12-16 Topology of the complex plane (interior point, open and closed sets, accumulation point, boundary of a set, connected sets) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sec. 1.3 Jan. 19-23 Functions of a complex variable (limits, continuity) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sec. 1.4 Examples of functions (exponential, logarithmic, trigonometric) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sec 1.5 Jan. 26-30 Differentiation, Cauchy-Riemann equations, analytic functions Sec 2.1 without 2.1.1 Power series (radius of convergence, differentiation of power series, exponential and trigonometric functions as power series) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sec 2.2 Feb. 2-6 Line integrals, Greens theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sec 1.6 Cauchys Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sec 2.3 Cauchys Formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sec 2.3

Feb. 9-13 Applications of Cauchys formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sec 2.4 First term test, Feb 11 Morreras Theorem, Liouvilles Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sec 2.4 Feb. 23-27 Isolated singularities (removable singularities, poles, essential singularities) Sec 2.5 Residues and their computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sec 2.5 Meromorphic functions, Laurent series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sec 2.5 Mar. 1-5 Residue theorem and applications to evaluation of denite integrals . . . . . . . . . . Sec 2.6 Mar. 8-12 Zeroes of analytic functions (the argument principle, Rouches theorem, fundamental theorem of algebra) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sec 3.1 without 3.1.1 Maximum modulus principle and mean-value theorem (Schwartzs lemma) . . . . . . . Sec 3.2 Mar. 15-19 M bius transformations (that is Linear fractional transformations) . . . . . . . . . Sec 3.3 o Second term test, Mar 17 Conformal mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sec 3.4 Mar. 22-26 The Riemann mapping theorem (without a proof) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sec 3.5 Introduction to analytic continuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . from lecture notes Mar. 29-Apr. 2 Harmonic functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sec 4.1 Poisson integral formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sec 4.3 Apr. 5-7 Review week