Complex Analysis: Preliminaries
Complex Analysis: Preliminaries
Complex Analysis: Preliminaries
Preliminaries
1. Define a group
2. Define an Abelian group
3. Define a field
4. Define a sub-field
5. Define a norm on a field F
6. Define the set of complex numbers
7. Define addition and multiplication in C
8. Define the real and imaginary parts of a complex number
9. Define the modulus of a complex number
10. Define the complex conjugate of a complex number
11. How is the modulus of a complex number and its complex conjugate linked?
12. Describe how we change 1/z into the form a+ib
13. Define a linear vector space
14. Define a normed linear vector space
15. State the Cauchy-Schwartz inequality
16. Define the complex plane and state how we define cos(theta) and sin(theta) in terms of this
17. Are the trigonometric functions injective?
18. Define the argument of a complex number and state what it represents in the complex plane
19. What is the link between the argument of a complex number and the argument of its complex
conjugate?
20. Write a complex number z in terms of its modulus and argument
21. Define the modulus and argument of zw and hence write zw in terms of the moduli and arguments
22. State the sum of angles formulas
23. Write z/w in terms of moduli and arguments
24. Define the modulus and argument of z^n and hence write z^n in terms of moduli and arguments,
what is the name of this formula?
25. Define the n-th root of z, and describe how we find all n of them
26. What are the derivatives of sin(theta) and cos(theta)?
27. What are the Taylor expansions of sin(theta) and cos(theta)?
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Complex Differentiation
1. When is a function f differentiable at a point z(0) in C?
2. For f,g two differentiable functions and c a complex number, define [cf](z0), [f+g](z0), [fg](z0) and
[f/g](z0)
3. When is a function f holomorphic?
4. When is a function f entire?
5. State the Cauchy-Riemann equations
6. How are the Cauchy-Riemann equations for a function f and the concept of holomorphism linked?
7. What is the main example of a function which is not holomorphic in C?
Complex Integration
1. When is a function gamma real differentiable?
2. When is a function gamma a regular path?
3. When is a function gamma a piecewise regular path?
4. Define the speed of a function gamma
5. Define the orientation of a function gamma
6. If gamma is a path, define the path with opposite orientation
7. Define a closed path
8. Define a Jordan path
9. State the important theorem about piecewise regular closed Jordan paths and the complex plane
10. When is a piecewise regular closed Jordan path a) positively oriented and b) negatively oriented?
11. Define the real integral of a function phi
12. Define the path integral for a) a regular path b) a piecewise regular path
13. Expand f(gamma(t))(gamma(t))
14. What is the link between the path integral of f over a path and the path with opposite orientation?
15. State the Complex Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
16. When is an open set called pathwise connected?
17. State the two important corollaries about pathwise connected open sets
18. Define a convex set
19. State the important proposition about primitives and convex sets
20. State Cauchys Theorem
21. State Cauchys Theorem in complex domains
22. State the Cauchy-Goursat Theorem
23. State Cauchys Integral Formula
24. Stae the interesting corollary and lemma used to prove Cauchys Integral Formula
25. State Cauchys Integral Formulae for Derivatives
26. State the estimates on derivatives corollary
27. State Liouvilles Theorem
28. State the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
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