Autumn/Winter/Spring 2000-2001, Monday/Wednesday/Friday 10:30-11:20
A three-quarter sequence covering complex numbers, analytic functions, contour integration, power series, analytic continuation, sequences of analytic functions, conformal mapping of simply connected regions, and related topics.All the topics listed for the Complex Analysis preliminary exam will be covered at some point in the course:
Cauchy theory and applications. Series and product expansions of holomorphic and meromorphic functions. Classification of isolated singularities. Theory and applications of normal families. Riemann mapping theorem; mappings defined by elementary functions; construction of explicit conformal maps. Runge's theorem and applications. Picard's theorems and applications. Harmonic functions; the Poisson integral; the Dirichlet problem. Analytic continuation and the monodromy theorem. The reflection principle.Prerequisites: A year-long undergraduate analysis course is a required prerequisite, but no undergraduate complex analysis is required (although it helps).
Text: Ralph Boas' Invitation to Complex Analysis,
which is out of print; copies (made with permission of the publisher) are
available from Professional Copy 'N' Print, 4200 University Way.