Math 520a - Complex Analysis

Tom Kennedy - Fall 2009

Course home page: www.math.arizona.edu/~tgk/520a/index.html

Instructor: Tom Kennedy (Professor, Mathematics)
email: tgk@math.arizona.edu
Phone: 626-0197
Office: Math 204

Office hours: will be announced in class and posted on the web. If my office door is open, feel free to come in even if it is not office hours. If my office door is closed, that probably means I am proving a big theorem or taking a nap, and would rather not be disturbed.

Text(s): The text for the course is Complex Analysis by Stein and Shakarchi, which I will follow pretty closely. We will cover a large part of it (but not all) in the first semester. Second semester will have another text, yet to be determined. Some other standard books are listed here .

Prerequisites: An undergraduate course in complex analysis, e.g. 424, is strongly recommended. Most students in the course will have the "mathematical maturity" of a student who has had a graduate level course in analysis, e.g., Math 523 or Math 527. At a minimum students should have had a strong undergraduate analysis course, e.g., 425ab.

Homework: Homework is the most important part of the course. The only way to learn mathematics is by doing it. I will give out homework sets approximately every week and a half.

Exams: There will be a take home midterm and a take home final. No collaboration is allowed on the take home exams.

Homework collaboration: Collaboration on homework (not the take home exams) is encouraged, provided it is really collaboration and not simply reproduction. To make this more precise, the rule is as follows. You should have worked seriously on the problem before you discuss it with others. You may then talk to each other about the problem, but anything you write down while you are talking should be thrown away or erased at the end of the conversation. In other words it is not fair to take notes while you talk to someone else and then use them to write up the solution. Feel free to ask me for hints on the homework.

Due dates: Past experience has taught me that without enforcement of due dates, some students will put off everything until the end of the semester. Homework sets will have a due date. I will accept it up to a week after that date, but with a 10% penalty. I will not accept it after that. Due dates for the take home exams are absolute; no late papers will be accepted.
Exceptions to this policy will be made in the case of illness.

Grades: The course grade will be determined using the weighting:
Incompletes: I will follow the University and Departmental policies on incompletes. The only scenario I can imagine in this course that would lead to an incomplete is if a student is sick during the week of the take home final.

Academic Integrity: Students are responsible for reading and following the University policies regarding the Code of Academic Integrity and Student Conduct:
Code of Academic Integrity
Student Code of Conduct
x