Math 315: Intermediate Complex Analysis

Franco Vargas Pallete

Lectures Tuesday/Thursday 2:30pm-3:45pm LOM 202

Office Hours TBD LOM 207
TA TBD
Requirements Math 310 or equivalent. Contact me if in doubt about background
(email franco.vargaspallete@yale.edu)
Course Description
Continuation of Math 310. Topics include
1. Reflection Principle Poisson integral formula, Schwarz reflection principle.
2. Conformal Mapping Schwarz-Christoffel formula, Riemann mapping theorem
3. Compact Families Montel’s theorem, Picard’s Theorem, Julia sets
4. Entire Functions Runge’s theorem, Mittag-Leffler Theorem, Infinite Products,
Weierstrass Product Theorem, Jensen’s formula, Hadamard factorization.
5. Special Functions Gamma Function, Zeta Function, Dirichlet series.
6. Dirichlet Problem Green’s formula, subharmonic functions, Perron Method.
7. Elliptic Functions Liouville’s theorems, Weierstrass ℘ funcntion, Eisenstein se-
ries
8. Introduction to Riemann surfaces
Suggested Texts
Stein/Shakarchi Complex Analysis
Gamelin Complex Analysis
Miranda Algebraic Curves and Riemann Surfaces
Remmert Classical Topics in Complex Function Theory
There are many other books that cover essentially the same material. Homework will
be distributed as .pdf on canvas, so it’s not necessary that you buy any of the books.
Homework
Homework will be posted Thursday and collected the next Thursday in class. Feel free
to discuss the assignments with your classmates, but you must write up and submit
your own set of solutions. Hint: if you just copy from classmates, there’s an incredibly
high likelihood that you will experience difficulties in the midterm/final. The problems
on the midterm/final require precisely the same type of thinking as homework does.
The majority of homework points are given for correct approach and work. Small
computational errors happen, it is more important that you approach the problem in
the correct way. No late homework will be accepted without a Dean’s excuse.
Exams There will be one midterm and one final.

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Grading
Homework 25%
1 Midterm 30%
Final Exam 45%
The grading cutoffs are completely standard 93(A), 90(A-), 85(B+), 80(B), 75(B-),
72(C+), 68(C), 65(C-), 55(D). The lower cutoffs may be lowered if some tests turn out
to be unexpectedly difficult. There is no one-grade-trumps-all policy and grades are not
open for discussion (because all I am doing is adding up points, you alone control your
grade).