MATH 585 Section 01: Intro Complex Calculus
Spring 2012
3 Credit Hours
Primary Instructor: Dr. Gregory Knese
Syllabus subject to change.
Class meets Tuesday and Thursday 2-3:15pm in Gordon Palmer 151.
It is expected that you have had calculus I-III and ordinary differential equations (or some equivalent courses).
Some basic notions in complex analysis. Topics include analytic functions, complex integration, infinite series, contour integration, and conformal mappings. Credit for this course will not be counted if it is taken after MATH 583.
Chapters 1-9. Complex numbers, Analytic functions, Elementary functions, Integrals, Series, Residues and Poles, Applications of Residues, Mapping by Elementary functions, Conformal mapping.
Comprehensive exam 1: Feb 16
Comprehensive exam 2: April 3
Comprehensive final exam: May 2, 8-10:30am
There will be weekly homework assignments
There will be a short in-class quiz approximately every third class (these will be announced the class before).
Grading breakdown:
Final: 30%
Exams: 15+15=30%
Quizzes: 10%
Homework: 30%
Letter grades will be determined using a the scale: A+ = [97,100], A = [93, 97), A- = [90, 93), and so on for B,C,D, and F = [0,60)
Your lowest exam score will be replaced by your final exam score if it is to your benefit. For this reason, there will be no make-ups for missing an exam: if you miss an exam it will be replaced by your final exam. No one should miss both exams nor should anyone miss the final.
10% of your quiz grades will be dropped, and therefore no make-ups will be permitted.
10% of your homework scores will be dropped.
You should do more than attend class. You should stay on top of the material by reading ahead and behind, studying notes from previous lectures, doing recommended exercises, and doing homework.
Attendance will be taken but it will not be a formal part of your grade.
The book is the same as that for Math 485. The book is Complex Variables and Applications, eighth edition, by Brown and Churchill.
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