Steve Bell's Math 428 class

Fourier Analysis

MA 42800 001 (CRN 10703) MWF 11:30 am to 12:20pm in UNIV 001

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: Yinzhen Li
Office: MATH 711
Email: li2850 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.

Here is a link to info about the optional one credit computer lab that goes with
MA 428 to make 428 an honors course.

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

Homework assignments

Fourier series formulas and Fourier transform formulas for reference

Homework is due in Gradescope at 11:00 pm on the days listed.

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

• Homework 2, due Wednesday, February 1 (Start Chapter 2) solutions

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

• Homework 4, due Wednesday, February 22 (Chapter 3) solutions

• Homework 5, due Wednesday, March 22 (Chapter 4) solutions

• Homework 6, due Tuesday, April 4 (Chapter 5) solutions

Recommended: Try reading some or all of my short expository paper
about a simple way to solve the Dirichlet problem:

Something about Poisson and Dirichlet

More syllabus items

Exam 1 material

The exam covered the material up to Lesson 19 on Wednesday, February 22
corresponding to Chapters 1, 2, and 3 (minus sections 3 and 5.3 from Chapter 2)
from Stein and Shakarchi.

Study material for Exam 1

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

Exam 2 material

• Practice problems for Exam 2
• The Actual Exam 2 and solutions

Final Exam material

• Practice problems for the final exam
• An old Final Exam
• The actual Final exam

MA 428 Piazza page

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