8701 Lecture Notes - Fall 2013

Notes will be posted here in the afternoons following the lecture.

Lecture Notes

Date

Topic

#1
Wednesday,
Sept. 4
Preview of the course
#2
Friday,
Sept. 6
Geometry of complex numbers
#3
Wednesday,
Sept. 11
Cauchy Riemann equations
#4
Friday,
Sept. 13
more on C-R eqns, polynomials, rat'l functions
#5
Monday,
Sept. 16
power series
#6
Wednesday,
Sept. 18
exponential, trig functions
#7
Friday,
Sept. 20
logarithm, multi-valued functions
#8
Monday,
Sept. 23
topology of metric spaces
#9
Wednesday,
Sept. 25
complex line integrals
#10
Friday,
Sept. 27
independence of path, Cauchy's Thm for rectangles
#11
Monday,
Sept. 30
Cauchy's Thm for disks, isolated singularities
#12
Wednesday,
Oct. 2
Cauchy integral formual, winding number
#13
Friday,
Oct. 4
winding numbers, derivatives via integral formula
#14
Monday,
Oct. 7
integral formula as convolution (notes a bit messy, should be rewritten...)
#15
Wednesday,
Oct. 9
(finite) Taylor expansions
#16
Friday,
Oct. 11
isolated zeros of analytic functions
#17
Monday,
Oct. 21
Open mapping thm, Maximum modulus principle
#18
Wednesday,
Oct. 23
applications of maximum modulus principle
#19
Friday,
Oct. 25
maximum modulus principle in unbounded domains
#20
Monday,
Oct. 28
Dixon's proof of Cauchy's theorems
#21
Wednesday,
Oct. 30
Topology and Cauchy's theorems
#22
Friday,
Nov. 1
Meromorphic functions
#23
Monday,
Nov. 4
The residue theorem
#24
Wednesday,
Nov. 6
Power series, Laurent series
#25
Friday,
Nov. 8
The argument principle
#26
Monday,
Nov. 11
Improper (real) integrals
#27
Wednesday,
Nov. 13
Improper integrals and singularities, branch points
#28
Friday,
Nov. 15
Gamma function
#29
Wednesday,
Nov. 20
Residues at infinity and integrals over branch cuts
#30
Friday,
Nov. 22
Rudiments of Fourier theory
#31
Monday,
Nov. 25
Mittag-Leffler theorem
#32
Wednesday,
Nov. 27
Infinite products
#33
Monday,
Dec. 2
Weierstrass products
#34
Wednesday,
Dec. 4
Representations of the Gamma function
#35
Friday,
Dec. 6
Analytic continuation of the zeta function
#36
Monday,
Dec. 9
Functional equation of the zeta function
#37
Wednesday,
Dec. 11
Prime number theorem sketch

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