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 FRIDAY, April 25 

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

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

You can bring TWO crib sheets 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

Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.1


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.