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) (solutions)

• Homework 8, due Thursday, April 10 (Chapter 5) (solutions)

• Homework 9, due FRIDAY, April 25 (Chapter 5)

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

It is a closed book, no notes, no electronics exam covering
all the material from the syllabus and lectures.

You can bring TWO 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 sheets.

Midterm exam

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

It was 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).

Study material for the exam

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

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