COMPLEX VARIABLES
-- 185A WINTER 2006 --


Lectures: Mon-Wed-Fri 1:10-2:00pm, PHYGEO 148
Instructor: Andrew Waldron, MSB 3138, Phone: 754-9373, wally@math.ucdavis.edu
Office Hours: Monday 2:00pm and Wednesday 2:00pm
TA Office Hours: Steve Pon, MSB 3131, Tuesday 11:00am and Thursday 2:00pm
Text: We won't follow any given text religiously.
Graduate texts:
Lang, ``Complex Analysis'' is affordable and good.
Remmert, ``Theory of Complex Functions'' treats the history well
Undergraduate text:
Marsden and Hoffman, ``Basic Complex Analysis'' is comprehensive.
Additional reference: Nehari, ``Conformal Mapping'' is useful, especially for 185B.
Syllabus: Introduction to complex numbers, complex powers, topology of the complex plane,
complex functions and limits, analyticity and Cauchy Riemann relations, harmonic functions,
elementary functions, contour integration and Cauchy's theorem, Laurent and Taylor series,
zeroes and singularities, the residue theorem.
Problem Sets: Posted here (+ selected solutions), due Fridays by 5:00pm in box outside math office (NOT my mailbox).

You may collaborate on the homework. Identical solutions are tolerated if both papers
acknowledge one another (i.e. you must BOTH write: ``this solution was prepared in collaboration with....'').
FINAL REGRADES: Monday March 12, 5pm
Solutions: No solutions will be posted -- writing these is your job :-)
Regrades: Since there are no solutions, you may resubmit old homeworks
after you have corrected any errors. The same applies to the midterm.
Rules, submit homeworks Wednesdays by 5:00pm to the box outside the
mathematics office. You may submit the current homework, 1 additional
old homework and the midterm for (re)grading. Additional homeworks
accompanied by a convincing written excuse may be accepted
IF the grader has time to handle them.
Resubmitted questions must be written out again neatly on a fresh sheet of paper.
Alterations to the original submission will not be accepted.
Exams: One midterm and a comprehensive final examination.
FINAL: Saturday March 17, 8am, 148 PHYS GEO
NO calculators, refridgerators, notes, cell-phones, telescopes or satellite dishes in any exam.
NO MAKE-UP EXAMS.
Grading: %50 final exam, 10% midterm, 40% problem sets.

wally@math.ucdavis.edu