School of Mathematics, Trinity College

Course 2325 - Complex analysis I 2014 (click for more information)

SF Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, JS & SS Two-subject Moderatorship

Lecturer Dmitri Zaitsev

Annual Examinations: The format will be the same as in the year 2010/2011 exam, which can be considered a sample paper. Credit will be given for the best 4 questions out of total 5 questions. The theoretical questions will be within the scope of the current course and the practical problems within the scope of the current homework. The exam will count for 100% of the grade.


Lecture Notes in PDF are only meant to supplement the material and older lecture notes


Problem Sheets in PDF: Sheet 1 Sheet 2 Sheet 3


Solutions to the Problems are similar to ones for older courses, see below.


Course outline:

Complex numbers, elementary operations: addition, multiplication, their properties. The conjugate, the absolute value and their behaviour with respect to addition and multiplication. Elementary functions of one complex variable: polynomials, exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric functions, their inverses.

Open, closed, connected sets. Limits of sequences and functions, their behaviour with respect to addition, multiplication, division. Cauchy's criterion for convergence. Continuous functions. Continuity of sums, products, ratios, compositions. Definitions of continiuty using open and closed sets. Connectedness, its preservation under continuous maps. Uniform convergence and continuity of uniform limits of continuous functions. Branches of multi-valued functions. Examples of branches of the argument function and the logarithm.

Infinite series of complex numbers. Geometric series and its convergence properties. The comparison test. Absolute convergence. Infinite function series and their uniform convergence. Weierstrass test. Power series. Abel's Lemma. Radius of convergence.

Complex-differentiable and holomorphic functions. Differentiability of sums, products, ratios, composition and inverse functions. Real-differentiable functions. Cauchy-Riemann equations. Complex differentiability of polynomials, rational functions, exponential, logarithm and trigonometric functions.

Path integrals. Independence of parametrization. Length of a path and estimates for path integrals. Antiderivatives. Calculation of path integrals using antiderivatives.

Cauchy's theorem: Goursat's version for a triangle, generalization for polygonal regions and simple bounded regions. Cauchy's integral formula. Residue theorem. Calculation of residues for ratios of holomorphic functions.

Applications of Residue theorem: Trigonometric integrals, Improper integrals, Fourier transform type integrals.

Power series expansions. Differentiation of power series.


Textbooks.
R. V. Churchill, J. W. Brown, Complex Variables and Applications, Fourth edition. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1984.
L. V. Ahlfors, Complex Analysis, Third Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1978.
J. B. Conway, Functions of One Complex Variable, Second Edition, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 11, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1978.
R. Remmert, Theory of Complex Functions, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 122, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1991.
B. P. Palka, An Introduction to Complex Function Theory, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1991.
G. Polya, G. Szego, Problems and theorems in analysis. Berlin - New York, Springer-Verlag, 1998.


Some links.
Graphics for Complex Analysis by Douglas N. Arnold.
A Complex Function Viewer by The University of British Columbia SunSITE.
Wolfram Mathworld Pages on Complex Analysis
Wikipedia Pages on Complex Analysis
Conformal Projections in Cartography by Carlos A. Furuti
Complex Analysis (and other fields) Books and Lecture notes


Old courses homepages:
Course 3423/4 - Topics in Complex Analysis 2013-14 with Problem Sheets.
Course 2325 - Complex Analysis I 2012 with Problem Sheets.
Course 2325 - Complex Analysis 2011 by Derek Kitson with brief summary of the topics and assignments.
Course 3423/4 - Topics in Complex Analysis 2011-12
Course 2325 - Complex Analysis I 2010
Course 3423/4 - Topics in Complex Analysis 2009-10 with Problem Sheets.
Course 214 - Complex Variable 2009 with Problem Sheets and Solutions.
Course 214 - Complex Variable 2008 by David Wilkins with Lecture Notes and other information.
Course 414 - Complex Analysis 2007-08 with Problem Sheets and Solutions.
Course 414 - Complex Analysis 2005-06 with Problem Sheets.
Course 414 - Complex Analysis 2003-04 by Richard M. Timoney with Lecture Notes and Problem Sheets.


For exam-related problems look in TCD past examination papers and Mathematics department examination papers.

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