Day 19 in
Mat430
Last time
: Analytic functions
Next time
: More "old friends" among functions
Today
:
Announcements
Reminder: you have three assignments due in three days next week -- try to keep up!
Today's activity, and new assignment:
Fri
2/26
25, 28, 29
Read 30-31 (chapter 3)
problems to follow
Last time: Section 23 and 25: Analytic Functions
Definitions
Analytic function (in a domain, at a point)
Entire function
Singular point
Example (involving hyperbolic trig functions)
Theorem about zero derivatives
Example related to theorem
We were working on Section 25: Harmonic functions
Definition
Theorem and big picture
An example PDE
Harmonic conjugates
Examples
Section 28: the function
Definition -- the extension of
into the complex plane
The old familiar properties hold:
There are some new things under the sun:
f
can be negative
f
is periodic (with imaginary period)
Examples
Section 29: the "inverse",
Definition -- a multi-valued function (no surprise, really)
Branches
Even so, many of the old familiar properties hold.
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