COURSE OUTLINE FOR MATH 301: APPLIED ANALYSIS
• Text: Fundamentals of Complex Analysis for Mathematics, Science and Engineering,
by E. Saff, A. Snider.
• References:
Churchill and Brown: Complex Variables and Applications.
Levinson and Redheffer: Complex Variables.
• Note: To some extent we will cover material that is not in these texts. The class
notes will be important!
• Topics:
• Complex Integration: 1 Week
• Multi-Valued Functions: 1.5 Week
• Integrals Involving Multi-Values Functions: 1 1/2 weeks
• Conformal Mapping and Applications: 3 weeks
• Nyquist Criterion; Poles and Zeroes of Complex functions. 1 week
• Laplace Transform: 2 weeks
• Fourier Analysis: 2 weeks
• Grading: There will be weekly homework assignments due each Monday. The weighting will be: Final 50%, 2 Midterms 15% each, HW 20%. No late homeworks will be
accepted. However, we will drop the two lowest homework grades.
• Instructor: Michael Ward, Tel: 822-8571. Office, the Institute for Applied Mathematics Director’s Office, Room 311, LSK.
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