Steve Bell's Math 428 class

Fourier Analysis

MA 42800 001 (CRN 10703) MWF 2:30 to 3:20 pm in SCHM 313

Professor Steve Bell Office: Math 750 Office phone: (765)-494-1497 Office hours: T,Th 2:00-3:00 pm and anytime on Piazza Email: bell AT purdue DOT you_know_where

Grader: Victor Hughes
Office: MATH 613
Email: vhughes AT purdue DOT you_know_where

Textbook: Fourier Analysis, by Elias M. Stein and R. Shakarchi, Princeton, 2003.

We will cover the Introduction and Chapters 1-5 of the textbook.

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

Homework assignments

Useful Fourier series formulas and Fourier transform formulas

• Homework 1 (Read Intro and Chapter 1) due Thursday, January 23 (solutions)

• Homework 2, due Thursday, January 30 (Start Chapter 2) (solutions)

• Homework 3, due Thursday, February 13 (Chapter 2) (solutions)

• Homework 4, due Thursday, February 20 (Chapter 3) (solutions)

• Homework 5, due Thursday, February 27 (Chapter 3) (solutions)

• Homework 6, due Thursday, March 27 (Chapter 4) (solutions)

• Homework 7, due Thursday, April 3 (Chapter 5)

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 lectures 1-19 on

Chapters 1, 2, 3 (minus sections 3 and 5.3 from Chap 2).

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.

Study material for the exam

• Practice problems for Exam 1
• An old exam
• The actual exam and solutions

The Final exam is Friday, May 9, 7:00-9:00 pm in RHPH 164

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.

Purdue Remote software to get MAPLE

A quick MAPLE tutorial

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.