Summer 2004 -- Complex Variables

Summer 2004 `C' Term-- Complex Variables -- MAA 4402-01

(also listed as MAT 5933-07)

Meets MTWRF 9:30-10:45 106 LOV
Instructor Dr Steve Bellenot (bellenot at math.fsu.edu) 850.644.7189
OFFICE HOURS MWR 11:00-11:30am TF 8:45-9:15am
Homework problems are heavily based on problems from Brown and Churchill. Here are the collection of problems that were assigned last summer but are paraphased in this pdf handout. The schedule of due dates.
Text: Brown and Churchill 7th Edition Complex Variables and Applications $125.70 @ Amazon and also in the local bookstores. Textbooks cost an arm and a leg but provide good value for the students that use them regularly. If you are a strong student, you might choose to forgo the textbook and select one or more of these more classic textbooks which cost considerably less. Of course, the topics and order are slightly different.

Fisher Complex Variables : Second Edition $11.87 @ Amazon
Dettman Applied Complex Variables $13.27 @ Amazon
Silverman Complex Analysis with Applications $10.36 @ Amazon

The class ad
The course Syllabus.
The schedule of due dates.
Complex analysis overview or the low down.
The on-line gradebook

Resources

Other books. This book is not cheap nor trivial but it presents the material more geometrically and is a recommended reference for the graduate course in complex analysis.

Needham Visual Complex Analysis $65.00 @ Amazon

TI-89 and complex numbers. a few hints
Maple and complex numbers. Maple treats all variables as if they are complex, enter sqrt(-1) as I (capitial I).
Web Maple
Maple does problems 1a and 1g
Java Applet for plots like #3
Cut and paste into web maple f(z)=1/z image of rectangular inside x0=1, x1=2, y0=1, y1=2. (Source blue, image red)
Cut and paste into web maple f(z)=1/z image of arc inside r0=1, r1=2, a0=Pi/6, a1=Pi/3. (Source blue, image red)