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Readings are assigned from:
Stein and Shakarchi: Complex Analysis
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WEEK LECTURE 1 LECTURE 2 NOTES READING HOMEWORK DUE
Week 1
9/01, 9/04
Introduction
Complex Numbers
Holomorphic Functions
Cauchy-Riemann Equations
09/01 Notes
09/04 Notes
09/04 Mathematica File
Chap. 1: Sec 2.1 -- 2.2 Pset1 -- Chap. 1, #1-10
due 9/11
Week 2
NO 9/08, 9/11
NO CLASS
MON SCHEDULE
Power Series
Hadamard's Formula
09/11 Notes
09/11 Mathematica File (thanks to Thomas!)
Chap. 1: Sec 2.3 -- 2.4 Pset 2 -- Chap. 1, #11-19
And Exercise from lecture 9/11
due 9/18
Week 3
9/15, 9/18
Integration on Curves
Goursat's Theorem
09/15 Notes
09/18 Notes
Chap. 1: Sec 3,
Chap. 2: Sec 2 -- 3
Pset 3 -- Chap. 1, #20-26
Chap. 2 #1-2
due 9/25
Week 4
9/22, 9/25
Cauchy Integrals
Liouville's Theorem
Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
09/22 Notes
09/25 Notes
Chap. 2: Sec 1 -- 4 Pset4 -- Chap. 2 Exercises #3-9, 11,
Problems #1a, 2
Write up any problem on Hwk1, Hwk2 or Quiz1 that did not receive full credit
due 10/02
Week 5
9/29, 10/02
Analytic Continuation
Moreira's Theorem
Residue Calculus
09/29 Notes
10/02 Notes
Chap. 2: Sec 4 -- 5
Chap. 3: Sec 1 -- 2
Pset 5 -- Chap. 2 Exercises #12-13
Chap. 3 Exercises #1-6
Problem #3
due 10/09
Week 6
10/06, 10/09
Riemann Sphere
Argument Principle
Open mapping theorem
Maximum Modulus
10/06 Notes
10/09 Notes
Chap. 3: Sec 3 -- 4
Watch this video on conformal maps of the plane/sphere
Pset 6 -- Chap. 3 Exercises #7-15
Problem #2
due 10/16
Week 7
10/13, 10/16
Homotopy
Complex Logarithm
Fourier Series
Mean Value Property
10/13 Notes
10/16 Notes
Chap. 3: Sec 3 -- 7
Chap. 4: Sec 1-- 3
Pset 7 -- Chap. 3 Exercises #16 - 22
Problems #4, 5a
Write up any problem on Hwk3-Hwk6 or Quiz2 that did not receive full credit
due 10/23
Week 8
10/20, 10/23
The Fourier Transform
Poisson Summation
10/20 Notes
10/23 Notes
10/23 Mathematica File
Chap. 4: Sec 1-- 3
Nice exposition for the Riemann surface of sqrt z
Pset 8 -- Chap. 4: Exercises #2, 3, 4, 6, 7
Problem #2
due 10/30
Week 9
10/27, 10/30
Trace Formula
Paley-Weiner
Phragmen-Lindelof
10/27 Notes
10/30 Notes
Chap. 4: Sec 3 Pset 9 -- REVIEW!
due 11/06
Week 10
11/03, 11/06
Conformal maps
Schwarz lemma
11/03 Notes
11/06 Notes
Chap 8: Sec 1 -- 2 Pset 10 -- Chap. 4: Exercises #2, 8
Chap 8: Exercises #1-5,
Chap 8: Problem #2
due 11/13
Week 11
11/10, 11/13
Schwarz lemma
Automorphisms of the Disk and Half-Plane
Riemann Mapping Theorem
11/10 Notes
11/13 Notes
Chap 8: Sec 3 -- 4
Optional: Read this on "Inversive Geometry"
Pset 11 -- Chap 8: Exercises # 10-16
Problems #3(a-d), 4
due 11/20
Week 12
11/17, 11/20
Montel's Theorem (Arzela-Ascoli)

Explicit Riemann Mapping Theorem

Dirichlet Problem
Grotzsch's Thm, quasiconformality
11/17 Notes
11/20 Notes
Chap 8: Sec 3 -- 4 Pset 12 --
Write up any problem on Hwk7-Hwk11 or Quiz3 that did not receive full credit
due 11/25
Week 13
11/24, 11/25

Wed 11/25 Class
Basel Problem
Riemann Zeta Function
Euler Product
Sum Reciprocals of Primes Diverges
Jensen's Formula
Hadamard Factorization
11/24 Notes
11/25 Notes
Chap 5 Pset 13 --
Chap. 5: Exercises #2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11
due 12/04
Week 14
12/01, 12/04
Zeta Function
Gamma Function
Mellin Transform/Inverse (see this Appendix)
Perron's Formula
Skewes's Number
Analytic Continuation, Functional Equation for Zeta
Riemann's Explicit Formula
Legendre-Gauss Conjecture
12/01 Notes
12/01 Mathematica File
12/04 Notes
Chap 6,7 Pset 14 -- Exercises from Lectures (12/1, 12/4)
due Wed 12/09
Week 15
12/08
FINAL EXAM Due 10:20 am on Tues, 12/15 Nonvanishing of Zeta on 1-Line
Prime Number Theorem
12/08 Notes
12/08 Mathematica File
Extra Innings!
Added 2023
12/01
Elliptic Integrals, Functions, Double Periodicity
Lecture 29 Notes
12/05
12/08
Weierstrauss P-function, Elliptic Curves
Lecture 30 Notes

Eisenstein series, modularity, BSD
Lecture 31 Notes
12/12
Jacobi Theta Function, Sums of Two Squares
Lecture 32 Notes