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{\large\bf Math\,425}\hfill {\large\bf Fall 1997}

\begin{center} {\Large\bf Complex Variables}\\[2ex]
                        {\large\bf Syllabus and Report}
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Only 8 students registered for the course, one dropped during the semester.
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Because I didn't have a grader for this course,  I decided to grade some of
the
homework myself.
I chose 5 problems per week from the assigned homework,  which had to be
turned in (see the bold faced problems in the list below).

In this way, I saw how the students performed  and I learned quite fast,
that the
``slightly more theoretical'' problems of the textbook were almost always too
difficult for  the students.
>From my experience, the way the book is written is not compatible with the
skills
of the students.
I did pretty much work to simplify given examples, to split long calculations
(like evaluations of integrals with the Residue Theorem) explicitly into
several
steps, so that the students were capable of doing the homework and exams
with the
given procedures.
Besides this,  it turned out  that the textbook S.~D.~Fisher: Complex
Variables, 2nd
Edition, Wadsworth \& Brooks/Cole 1990 is around in two different versions.
There were copies (even with the same ISBN-no.) having misprints e.~g. in the
exercises, while other copies were correct.

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\begin{tabular}{l|l|l}
 &{\bf Reading } &{\bf Homework}\hspace*{7cm} \\[1ex] \hline
%                           &               \\
Aug.~27, W  & 1.1 \& 1.1.1  & \ul{1.1:} {\bf1},4,9,10,{\bf 12},17,
\ul{1.1.1:} 5,{\bf6},2  \\[1.5ex]
Aug.~29, F  & 1.1  & \ul{1.1:} 2,{\bf 3},{\bf 5},6,7,13,20,21  \\[.5ex]\hline
Sept.~1, M & 1.2  & \ul{1.2:} 1,4,{\bf 6},7,8,12,15,{\bf 24},25,22\\[1.5ex]
Sept.~3, W & 1.3  & \ul{1.3:}  1,{\bf5},6,7,10,{\bf 17},27,28\\[1.5ex]
Sept.~5, F & 1.3 \& 1.4 & \ul{1.4:} {\bf 2},3,7 \\[.5ex]\hline
Sept.~8, M & 1.4 & \ul{1.4:} 9,10,11,{\bf 12},16,17,21,22,28,30,32,33,{\bf
37},38,40\\[1.5ex]
Sept.~10, W & 1.5 & \ul{1.5:} 1,2,{\bf 14}\\[1.5ex]
Sept.~12, F & 1.5 & \ul{1.5:} {\bf 3},4,8,10,{\bf 12},13 \\[.5ex]\hline
Sept.~15, M & 1.5 & \ul{1.5:} {\bf 5},6,11,{\bf 18},15,19  \\[1.5ex]
Sept.~17, W & Review & \ul{1.2:}  23, \ul{1.4:}  {\bf 6}, \ul{1.5:} 7,{\bf
9},{\bf 17}\\[1.5ex]
Sept.~19, F & Exam 1&   \\[.5ex]\hline
Sept.~22, M & 1.6 &  \ul{1.6:} {\bf 1},{\bf 2},3,{\bf 4},{\bf 6} \\[1.5ex]
Sept.~24, W & 1.6 & \ul{1.6:}  {\bf 7},\\[1.5ex]
Sept.~26, F &1.6 & \ul{1.6:} 9,16\\[.5ex]\hline
Sept.~29, M & 1.6 \& 2.1 & \ul{1.6:} {\bf 12} \\[1.5ex]
Oct.~1, W & 2.1 & Handout Sheet with {\bf two Exercises}, \ul{2.1:}
1b,1d,1e,2,3,5 \\[1.5ex]
Oct.~3, F & 2.1 & \ul{2.1:} 6,9,10,14,{\bf 15},17,{\bf 20a},20d \\[.5ex]\hline
Oct.~6, M & 2.2 & \ul{2.2:} {\bf 2},4,5,3,9\\[1.5ex]
Oct.~8, W & 2.2 & \ul{2.2:} {\bf 10},11,14,15,{\bf 16},{\bf 17} \\[1.5ex]
Oct.~10, F & 2.3 & \ul{2.2:} 19,{\bf 22},23 \\[.5ex]\hline
                &      &
\end{tabular}

\begin{tabular}{l|l|l}
 &{\bf Reading } &{\bf Homework}\hspace*{7cm} \\[1ex] \hline
%                           &               \\
Oct.~13, M & 2.3 & \ul{2.3:}  1,{\bf 9},{\bf 10},{\bf 11},12\\[1.5ex]
Oct.~15, W & 2.3 & \ul{2.3:}  {\bf 2},{\bf 3},4 \\[1.5ex]
Oct.~17, F & Exam 2 &  \\[.5ex]\hline
Oct.~27, M & 2.3 & \ul{2.3:}5,6,{\bf 7},14 \\[1.5ex]
Oct.~29, W &2.4 & \ul{2.4:} 10,11,12,{\bf 15} \\[1.5ex]
Oct.~31, F & 2.4 & \ul{2.4:} {\bf 1},2,3,{\bf 9},{\bf 17},20\\[.5ex]\hline
Nov.~3, M & 2.5 &  \ul{2.5:} {\bf 3},4,5,{\bf 6} \\[1.5ex]
Nov.~5, W & 2.5 &\ul{2.5:} Residues for {\bf 3},5,6,7\\[1.5ex]
Nov.~7, F &  2.5 &\ul{2.5:} 7,{\bf 8},9,11,{\bf 12},14,16,21\\[.5ex]\hline
Nov.~10, M & 2.5 \& 2.6 &\ul{2.5:} {\bf 14}\\[1.5ex]
Nov.~12, W & 2.6&\ul{2.6:}{\bf 1},{\bf 3} \\[1.5ex]
Nov.~14, F & 2.6 &\ul{2.6:} {\bf 5},{\bf 6},7\\[.5ex]\hline
Nov.~17, M & 2.6 &\ul{2.6:} {\bf 10},11,{\bf 23},{\bf 16},17,18\\[1.5ex]
Nov.~19, W & Review & \\[1.5ex]
Nov.~21, F & Exam 3 & \\[.5ex]\hline
Nov.~24, M & 3.1 &\ul{2.6:} {\bf 4} \\[1.5ex]
Nov.~26, W & 3.1&\ul{3.1:} {\bf 12},{\bf 13},{\bf 14},{\bf 15}\\[.5ex]\hline
Dec.~1, M & 3.1 \& 3.2 &\ul{3.1:} {\bf 17a,b},{\bf 20},21\\[1.5ex]
Dec.~3, W & 3.2 &\ul{3.2:} {\bf 1},{\bf 2},\\[1.5ex]
Dec.~5, F & 3.2 &\ul{3.2:}  3,{\bf 6}\\[.5ex]\hline
Dec.~8, M & Review & \\[1.5ex]
Dec.~10, W & Review & \\[.5ex]\hline
                  & &
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