Math 403, Spring 2011

Welcome to Math 403, Section 02.

  • Instructor: Po Lam Yung
    Office: Hill 224
    Office hours: Thursdays 4:30pm-5:30pm
  • Grader: Bin Guo
    Office: Hill 101

Textbook:

  • Stephen D. Fisher, Complex Variables (2nd edition), Dover, ISBN 0-486-40679-2
  • You are not required to purchase any textbook, as long as you learn the material and get a way to figure out the homework problems.
  • Some supplementary reading material can be found on Sakai under the Resources section.

Grading Scheme:

  • Final Exam: 200 points
  • Two mid-term Exams: 100 points each, held in class on February 24, 2011 (Thursday) and on April 12, 2011 (Tuesday)
  • Quizzes: 10 points each. These are to be held in class every Tuesday (unless otherwise specified). These will be about homework problems that are assigned the previous Tuesday (see below). The two lowest scores will be dropped.

Homework:

  • Homework will be assigned every Tuesday. You do not need to turn them in. However, you will be quizzed about them the next Tuesday in class.
  • All homework will be assigned from the textbook unless otherwise specified.
  • * The starred problems are optional; you are encouraged to solve them though if you are more advanced or if you are a math major.
Homework 1 Section 1.1: 3(c)(d), 11, 15, 18, 21*
Section 1.2: 11
Section 1.3: 2, 4, 7, 13*, 25*, 29*
Section 1.4: 13, 14, 19*
Section 2.1: 2, 9, 14
 Quiz on Feb 1
Homework 2 Section 1.6: 13, 14, 17*, 18*, 19*
Section 2.1: 5, 12*, 13*, 15, 18, 20(a)(b)(c)(d), 26*
Also these additional problems
Reading Exercise: Read Theorem 2 of Chapter 2.1 of the textbook 		Quiz on Feb 8
Homework 3 Section 1.4: 37, 40, 41*, 42*, 43*
Section 1.5: 23
Section 2.1: 1(a)(b)(e), 3, 4, 10, 19
Section 2.2: 2, 4, 14, 16, 22*, 23*, 24*
Additional problem: Find all complex numbers z for which sin z = 0. Do the same for cosine and the exponential.		 Quiz on Feb 15
Homework 4 Section 1.5: 5, 12
Section 1.6: 2, 3, 4, 7
Section 2.1: 6
Section 2.2: 8, 9, 10, 19		 No quiz because of midterm
Homework 5 Section 2.3: 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 14
Also these additional problems
 Quiz on Mar 8
Homework 6 Section 2.3: 5, 8
Section 2.4: 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Section 2.5: 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 19, 22(a)(b)(c)(e)
 Quiz on Mar 22
Homework 7 Section 2.4: 2, 3, 7
Section 2.5: 1, 2, 6
Section 2.6: 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 14, 18, 27*, 28*, 29*
Quiz on Mar 29
Homework 8 Section 2.4: 20*, 21*
Section 3.1: 12
Questions 1(b)(d)(f)(h), 2, 3(b)(d), 5(b)(d), 6, 7 in the following supplementary exercises 		Quiz on Apr 5
Homework 9 Section 3.3: 2, 4(a), 5(a)(b)(c), 16, 17, 18
Section 3.5: 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 17*, 18*
Also these additional problems
 Quiz on Apr 26