Complex Analysis

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)?

Metric Spaces
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Define a metric space

Define a convergent sequence
Define a Cauchy sequence
Define a complete metric space
What is the link between convergent sequences and Cauchy sequences in a) a metric space and b) a
complete metric space?
6. Define the open ball Br(x)
7. Define an accumulation point
8. Define an isolated point
9. Define an open set
10. What are the only two subsets of a metric space X which are both open and closed?
11. State whether a) the union of open sets b) the intersection of finitely many open sets is open or
closed
12. Define a closed set
13. Define the closed ball Br(x)
14. Define the boundary of a ball
15. State whether a) the union of finitely many closed sets b) the intersection of closed sets is open or
closed
16. Define the diameter of a subset U of X
17. When is a subset U of X bounded?
18. Define a cover for a subset A of X
19. Define an open cover for a subset A of X

20. Define a compact set K

21. State the Cantor-Intersection lemma
22. State the Heine-Borel theorem
23. Define the limit of a function value
24. When is a function f continuous?
25. When is a function f uniformly continuous?
26. What is the link between continuity and uniform continuity?
27. When is a function f bounded?
28. What can we say about a continuous function f on a compact set K?
29. When are a sequence of functions fj pointwise convergent to f?
30. When are a sequence of functions fj uniformly convergent to f?
31. When are a sequence of functions fj uniformly Cauchy?
32. What can we say about a sequence of uniformly Cauchy functions fj in a subset U of a complete metric
space X?
33. What can we say about the limit f of a sequence of continuous functions fj on a subset U of a metric
space X?

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

Complex Power Series

1. Define a power series in z

2. Define the radius of convergence of a sequence c(n)

3. When is a real series convergent?
4. When is a complex series convergent?
5. When is a complex series absolutely convergent?
6. What is the link between convergence and absolute convergence?
7. If a complex series is convergent, what are the main two other conclusions we can draw?
8. State the Fundamental Theorem of Power Series
9. What is the limit as n tends to infinity of n^(1/n)?
10. State the Weierstrass M-Test
11. State the theorem of uniform convergence and integrals
12. State the theorem of uniform convergence and derivatives
13. What are the two links between the power series and the power series obtained by term-by-term
differentiation?
14. Define the complex exponential function
15. State Eulers identity
16. Define the Cauchy product of two series
17. Define the principal branch of the logarithm
18. Define sinz, cosz, sinhz, coshz in terms of exponentials
19. State the four links between sin(iz), cos(iz), sinhz, coshz
20. State the two links between sinz, cosz, sinhz, coshz
21. Define sin(z), cos(z), sin(z+w), cos(z+w)
22. State (the complex) Taylors Theorem and therefore the Taylor expansion of f(z)
23. What is the difference between Taylors Theorem in the real case and the complex case?
24. State the Identity Theorem
25. State Proposition 4.7.1 and Lemma 4.7.1
26. Define a connected set
27. State the Isolation of Zeros corollary

Residues
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State the inversion and double series theorem

State the Laurent Expansions theorem
Define an isolated singularity
Define a removable singularity, a pole and an essential singularity
State the important proposition about poles
Define a residue
Describe the method for finding a residue
State the residue theorem