Steve Bell's Math 425 class

MA 42500 001 (CRN 14003)    MWF 10:30-11:20 am   in SCHM 313

Complex Variables


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Professor Steve Bell
OFFICE: Math 750
OFFICE PHONE: (765)-494-1497
E-MAIL: bell AT purdue DOT you_know_where

OFFICE HOUR: T,Th 2:00-3:00 pm
             and via piazza
             and appointment


Grader: Cian Nolan
OFFICE: Math 719
E-MAIL: nolan70 (you_know_what) purdue DOT (you_know_where)


TEXTBOOK: Fundamentals of Complex Analysis with Applications to Engineering and Science, Saff and Snider, 3rd Edition.

We will cover most of Chapters 1-8 of the textbook.


The AFTERMATH -- scribbled over notes from Bell's tablet PC at the end of lecture.


Homework assignments

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HWK 1  due Thursday, January 23

Lesson Read        Do

1      1.1,1.2,1.3 p.5: 8,19 p.13: 7g,i,h p.22: 7a,h
2      1.4,1.5     p.31: 1c,3c,10 p.37: 5f,7c
3      1.6,1.7     p.42: 2-7,16,17

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HWK 2 due Thursday, January 30

Lesson Read        Do

4      2.1,2.2     p.56: 5a-e,13a-c p.63: 7a-f,11a-c
5      2.3         p.71: 7a-e,11a-h,13a-f

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HWK 3 due Thursday, February 6

Lesson Read        Do

6      2.4         p.77: 1a,b,6
7      2.5,2.6     p.84: 1a,c,3b-d,8a-c
8      3.1,3.2     p.108: 3b,11a,13d p.115: 5b,17

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HWK 4 due Thursday, February 13

Lesson Read        Do

9      3.3         p.123: 1a-d,5a-c,12
10     3.4,3.5     p.130: 3,4 p.136: 1a,b,d,15a
11     4.1,4.2     p.160: 3,8 p.170: 3a,b,8,13

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HWK 5 due Thursday, February 20

Lesson Read        Do

12     4.3         p.178: 1a-e,4
13     4.4         p.200: 7,9a-f,16
14     4.5         p.212: 1,3a,b,d,f,7

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HWK 6 due Thursday, February 27

Lesson Read        Do

15     4.6         p.219: 4,5,6,13
16     4.7         p.225: 4,6,7
17     5.1         p.239: 1a,c,e,11a-d

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HWK 7 due Thursday, March 27

Lesson Read        Do

21     5.2         p.249: 1a,b,5a-g
22     5.3         p.259: 3a-f,13a
23     5.4         p.267: 3a-f

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HWK 8 due Thursday, April 3

Lesson Read        Do

24     5.5         p.276: 3a-c,4
25     5.6         p.285: 1a-g,5a-e
26     5.7         p.290: 1a-e
27     5.8         p.301: 2,10,11

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HWK 9 due Thursday, April 10

Lesson Read        Do

28     6.1         p.313: 1a-h, 3a-d
29     6.2,6.3     p.317: 1,3 p.325: 1,11
30     6.4,6.5     p.336: 5 p.344: 2,10

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HWK 10 due TUESDAY, April 22 

Lesson Read        Do

29     6.6         p.354: 4
30     6.7         p.364: 3,7,8
31     7.1         p.375: 2c
32     7.2         p.382: 3
                             
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Midterm exam

The midterm exam will be an in-class 50 minute exam on Wednesday, March 5.

It is a closed books, no notes, no electronics exam covering

Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.1

You can bring one two-sided crib sheet of standard sized
paper handwritten only on both sides.

I will supply the paper. You only need pencils, an eraser,
and your crib sheet.


The Final exam is Thursday, May 8, 8:00-10:00 am in SC 239


More Syllabus items


Something about Poisson and Dirichlet, a short paper about harmonic functions
and solving the Dirichlet problem as quickly and easily as possible.

A LaTeX tutorial for Piazza to be viewed in Adobe Reader in full screen mode a page at a time.

Here is a MAPLE tutorial to help you get started with MAPLE.


Course Accommodations

Purdue University strives to make learning experiences
accessible to all participants. If you anticipate or
experience physical or academic barriers based on disability,
you are encouraged to contact the Disability Resource
Center at: drc@purdue.edu or by phone: 765-494-1247.

In this mathematics course, accommodations are managed
between the instructor, student, and the DRC Testing Center.

Students should see Prof. Bell outside class hours to
discuss accommodations as early as possible.

See

https://www.math.purdue.edu/academic/courses/ada

for more information about how accommodations are handled
in the math department.