MAT334, Complex Variables, Summer 2020

Syllabus

Instructors: Nathan Carruth (ncarruth@math.toronto.edu, LEC 5101 (coordinator); NOTE: I do not check or reply to e-mail on Sundays); Matthew Sourisseau (sourisse@math.utoronto.ca), LEC 0101.

TAs: Stanislav Balchev, Etienne Bilocq, Yucong Jiang, Ren Zhu.

This course will be offered online only. Lectures and tutorials will be held on Bb Collaborate, accessible from Quercus. Office hours will be held on Bb Collaborate and/or Zoom. Information about minimum technology requirements is available here and here.

Instructor office hours: Nathan: Monday, 2PM; Tuesday, 9AM and 10PM; Thursday, 10AM. Matt: Wednesday, 12PM; Friday, 1PM. All are on Collaborate (Nathan's office hours are on the Course Room).

TA office hours: Monday, 3PM; Tuesday, 7 or 8 PM; Wednesday, 2PM; Thursday, 9AM; Friday, 3PM, all on Collaborate.

Announcements will be posted here.

Course lecture notes (including review of prerequisites) will be posted here.

Homework assignments (week 4 onwards) will be posted here.

The term test solutions are available from here.

Practice problems (including review problems for multivariable calculus and linear algebra) are available here.

Quiz rubrics (weeks 2 and 3) will be posted here each week after each section's quizzes have been marked.

A single document containing all of the course lecture notes, assignment solutions, and term test and final assessment solutions can be found here.

Typescript of the textbook, Goursat's Functions of a Complex Variable (which will be continually updated throughout the term), is available here.

Here is some additional commentary which is useful for understanding my thinking behind this course, but is too long to put in the syllabus; read at your leisure:

For some context and rationale behind the choice of textbook see here.

What this course is, and what it is not.

More to come!