Math 113, Complex analysis

Instructor: Mihnea Popa

Mihnea Popa
Office: 521 Science Center
Tel: 617-495-4471
email: mpopa@math.harvard.edu
URL: www.math.harvard.edu/~mpopa
  • Meeting times MWF 12:00-1:00, Science Center 310
  • First meeting Wednesday, February 2, 2005
  • Textbook "Complex Analysis" by Theodore Gamelin (Springer, 2001)
Brief course description: Analytic functions of one complex variable: power series expansions, contour integrals, Cauchy's theorem, Laurent series and the residue theorem. Some applications to real analysis, including the evaluation of indefinite integrals. An introduction to some special functions.
Introductory handout:     pdf     ps
Practice midterm:     pdf     ps     This is a just selection of practice problems, not meant to reflect the length of the in-class test.
Practice final:     pdf     ps    
Homework: Unless otherwise specified, the listed exercises are from the textbook.
    Problem Set 1: I.1: 5; I.2: 5; I.5: 2; I.6: 2,3; II.2: 3,5; II.3: 3,4,5;
    Problem Set 2: II.3: 8; II.4: 3,6 (note that the expression for sin^{-1}(z) is in scn. I.8); II.5: 3,5,6,7; III.1: 2,5; III.2: 3;
    Problem Set 3: III.2: 4; III.3: 1,3; IV.1: 1,2,4,9; IV.2: 2,4,5;
    Problem Set 5: V.2: 7,9,12; V.3: 2,4,6; V.4: 7,8,9,13;
    Problem Set 6: V.7: 6,9,11; VI.1: 2,6; VI.2: 1(b,d,f,i),5,8,9,10;
    Problem Set 7: VI.2: 11,12; VI.4: 1(c,f),2(b,c); VII.1: 3,6;
    Problem Set 8: VII.2: 4,7; VII.3: 3,5; VII.4: 3,8; VII.7: 4; VIII.2: 2,4;
    Problem Set 9: III.5: 1,2,5; II.7: 3; IX.1: 1,2,3; IX.2: 1,5,7;
    Problem Set 10: IX.2: 10,11,14; X.1: 2,3; XI.1: 2,3,6,7; XI.2: 1;
    Problem Set 11: X.3: 2,6; XIV.1: 1,2,3; XIV.2: 1,6; XIV.3: 1,2,4;



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