Instructor: Stephen Brill
Office: MB (Mathematics Building) 218-A
Phone: (208) 426-3122
Fax: (208) 426-1356
Email: sbrill@boisestate.edu
Class meetings: 0900 to 1015, Wednesday and Friday in room MB 124.
Textbook: Complex Analysis: A First Course with Applications, Third Edition, by Dill and Shanahan.
Office hours: Mondays and Wednesdays at 1330. Other times by appointment.
Academic Honesty and appropriate behavior: All students are expected to be familiar with and adhere to the policies and standards given in the BSU Student Code of Conduct.
Cell phones, paging devices, etc.: Please turn off or silence your devices during class time.
Late work and/or extensions: If you seek an extension on an assignment and the request occurs after the due date or time, your request will be summarily denied (except in the most extraordinary circumstances). Such requests that occur before the due date and time will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Contesting grades: If you think I have graded you unfairly on a particular assignment, you must bring this to my attention within a week from the time that the assignment was returned to the class. After a week I will not consider any requests to review and possibly change my grading.
Learning outcomes: At the end of the semester, the student will be able to
do arithmetic with complex numbers
compare and contrast complex functions with their real analogues
use the Cauchy-Riemann equations to determine analytcity
perform complex integration
Grading policy: Your grade will be determined by your performance in three areas:
Take-home quizzes (50%). These will be assigned regularly. While I encourage you to work with other class members on quizzes, each student must hand in his/her own paper. Quizzes are always due at the start of class. At the end of the semester, the lowest quiz score for each student will be "dropped".
Midterm Exam (20%). Due 3 March at 0900.
Final Exam (30%) . Due 3 May at 1130.
Your grade will be computed via the following algorithm. Let x be the number of points accumulated throughout the semester (between 0 and 100):
A+: x > 97
A: 93 < x < 97
A-: 90 < x < 93
B+: 87 < x < 90
B: 83 < x < 87
B-: 80 < x < 83
C+: 77 < x < 80
C: 73 < x < 77
C-: 70 < x < 73
D: 60 < x < 70
F: x < 60
This page was most recently updated on 27 April 2023.