MATH 6111 - INTRODUCTION TO COMPLEX VARIABLESSPRING 2010Instructor: Dr. Chal Benson,• Office: 215 Austin Bldg.• Phone: (252) 328-6574,• Email: [email protected],• Web: http://core.ecu.edu/math/bensonf/Meeting times: Tuesday and Thursday 5:00-6:15 p.m. in Austin 206Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2:30-5:00 (or by appointment).Text: Stephen D. Fischer, Complex Variables, Second edition, Dover, 1999.Prerequisite: Math 5102 (Advanced Calculus II).Important dates:• Tues March 9, Thurs March 11 - Spring break, no class.• Thurs April 15 - Last day for graduate students to drop courses withoutreceiving a grade.• Thurs April 22 - Last class.• Thurs April 29, 5:00-7:30 p.m. - Final exam.Course Outline: Our main topics can be found in the first two chapters of the coursetext.Grades:• class participation - 5%• course notes - 5% (As the course proceeds you should produce a comprehensivelist of definitions and a comprehensive list of theorems. These will be due onthe day of the final exam.)• homework - 40% (Late homework will not be accepted.)• Mid-term exam - 20%• final exam - 30%1References[1] Lars V. Ahlfors. Complex analysis. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, third edition, 1978. Anintroduction to the theory of analytic functions of one complex variable, International Series inPure and Applied Mathematics.[2] Ruel V. Churchill and James Ward Brown. Complex variables and applications. McGraw-HillBook Co., New York, fourth edition, 1984.[3] John B. Conway. Functions of one complex variable, volume 11 of Graduate Texts in Mathemat-ics. Springer-Verlag, New York, second edition, 1978.[4] Edward B. Saff and Arthur David Snider. Fundamentals of Complex Analysis with Applicationsto Engineering, Science, and Mathematics. Prentice Hall, New York, third edition,