Math 5420 (Complex Analysis)
Spring 2022, UNT

Lecture: GAB 461, TR 12:30-1:50pm

Instructor: Professor Olav Richter

• Office: GAB 412
• Office hours: TR 2-3pm, and by appointment
• email: richter@unt.edu

Course Description: Math 5420 is the continuation of Math 5410. The course is highly recommended for students who are considering taking the complex analysis qualifying exam. Topics include: Applications of the residue theorem, product developments, conformal mappings, and elliptic functions.

Textbook: We will not follow a particular textbook very closely. However, most of the material that we will cover can be found in the following three books:

• Title: Complex Analysis
• Author: Lars V. Ahlfors
• Publisher: McGraw Hill

• Title: Functions of One Complex Variable
• Author: John B. Conway
• Publisher: Springer

• Title: Complex Analysis ( ebook )
• Author: Eberhard Freitag and Rolf Busam
• Publisher: Springer

Exams & Grading Policy: Your final grade will be based on homework, a midterm, and a comprehensive final. Homework assignments will be posted on canvas and you will upload your solutions on canvas. Your lowest homework score will be dropped.  Late homework will NOT be accepted for any reason. The midterm will be on March 10^th.  The final exam will be on May 12^th (10:30-12:30pm).  Please make sure that you are available at those dates, since there will be NO make up exams!  The grade is comprised of

• Homework (30%),
• Midterm (30%),
• Comprehensive Final (40%).

Face Coverings: UNT encourages everyone to wear a face covering when indoors, regardless of vaccination status, to protect yourself and others from COVID infection, as recommended by current CDC guidelines.  Face coverings guidelines could change based on community health conditions.