SUNY at Stony Brook MAT 342: Applied Complex Analysis
Spring 2023

Weekly Plan (tentative) and Short Lecture Summaries

Week Topics
Jan 24, Jan 26 Introduction, basic properties of complex numbers, Euler's formula (sections 1.1-1.11)
Jan 31, Feb 2 Topology, functions and mappings, limits, continuity (sections 1.12-2.18)
Feb 7, Feb 9 Derivatives, Cauchy-Riemann equations, analytic functions and examples (sections 2.19-2.26)
Feb 14, Feb 16 Harmonic functions, uniquely determined analytic functions, the exponential and logarithm functions (sections 2.26-3.34)
Feb 21, Feb 23 The power, sine, cosine functions, derivatives and integrals, contour integrals (sections 3.35-4.45)
Feb 28, Mar 2 Contour integrals, antiderivatives (sections 4.46-4.49)
Midterm 1 on Mar 2 (Thursday)
Mar 7, Mar 9 The Cauchy-Goursat theorem, the Cauchy integral formula (sections 4.50-4.57)
Mar 14, Mar 16 Spring Break
Mar 21, Mar 23 Liouville's theorem, Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, Taylor series (sections 4.58-4.65)
Mar 28, Series, Mar 30 Laurent series, integration and differentiation of series (sections 5.66-5.73)
Apr 4, Apr 6 The Cauchy Residue Theorem, poles, removable and essential singularities (sections 6.74- 6.81)
Apr 11, Apr 13 Zeros and poles (sections 6.82-6.84)
Midterm 2 on Apr 11 (Tuesday)
Apr 18, Apr 20 Riemann's theorem, Casorati-Weierstrass theorem, Improper integrals (sections 6.84-7.86)
Apr 25, Apr 27 Jordan's lemma, The argument principle (sections 7.87-7.93)
May 2, May 4 Rouché's Theorem, the square root, Riemann surfaces (sections 7.94-8.100, 8.107-8.110)
May 9 (Tuesday)
2:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Final Exam