MWF 9:05-9:55 AM
(Section 2: Schedule #587122)
MWF 10:10-11:00 AM (Section 1: Schedule #587119)
Instructor: Professor Andrew Belmonte
Contact info: 322 McAllister Building, telephone: 865-2491, email: belmonte.AT.math.psu.edu
Office hours: Mon 3-4, Tues 11-12, or by appointment.
Prerequisites: Math 250 or 251, Math 405.
Web Page: http://www.math.psu.edu/belmonte/math406_06.html
Required Textbooks (available in the bookstore):
Additional Texts (not required!)
| EXTRA REVIEW:
Sat 4/29 1-2 PM, 113 McAllister
|Assigned problems|| Overview of the
Solns to the
In this class we will talk about imaginary numbers, which are multiples
of the square root of -1, and more generally about complex numbers, which are combinations of real and imaginary numbers. The number system which results from this abstraction is quite important to many applications, including signal processing, fluid dynamics, electromagnetism, circuit theory, and quantum mechanics - to name a few. This semester we will study the calculus of complex functions - functions of a complex variable, and complex-valued functions. Among the topics we will cover are: analytic functions, contour integration, sequences and series, residues, conformal mappings, and transforms.
The structure of the course will follow the two texts. You should be reading well ahead of where we are in the lecture - this will be my assumption!
Midterm I:   Friday February 17th (in class).
Midterm II:   Friday April 7th (in class).
Final Exam:   Monday May 1st (10:10 AM, 117 Borland).