MAA4402 Fall 2025

MAA4402/5404 SYLLABUS

Complex Analysis MAA 4402/5404
Class Number: 13699/13444 Section 8463/8442 Fall 2025



Instructor, Office and Office hours
Scott McCullough

Text
Churchill and Brown, Complex Variables and Applications, 9th Edition, McGraw-Hill. Other editions may work too.

Course Content and Objectives
Complex numbers, analytic functions, Cauchy-Riemann equations, harmonic functions, elementary functions, integration, Cauchy-Goursat theorem, Cauchy integral formula, infinite series, residues and poles, conformal mapping.

Objectives include master of the course content and writing clear, complete and logical solutions of problems involving functions of a complex variable.

Suggested Problems

Selected problems from the text will be assigned on a daily basis.

Quizzes

There will be three 12 point quizzes during the last 15 minutes of class on the following days.

  • Quiz 1, Monday 8 September.
  • Quiz 2. Monday 6 October.
  • Quiz 3. Monday 10 November

Makeup quizzes (documentation required) will be given during the time reserved for a final exam.

Exams

There will be three 38 point exams on the following days.

  • Exam 1. Friday 19 September
  • Exam 2. Friday 24 October.
  • Exam 2. Monday 1 December.

Makeup exams (documentation required) will be given during the time reserved for a final exam.

Grading

A course total will be computed by adding the exam and quiz scores (total 150). Grades will then be assigned according to a straight scale:

    135 A; 130 A-; 125 B+; 120 B; 115 B-; 110 C+; 95 C; 90 D.

See the current UF policy on assigning grade points.

Attendance
Attendance is recommended.

Correspondence
In accordance with University policy, all written communication should be through canvas messaging.

Tentative weekly schedule
Complex Numbers, two weeks
Analytic Functions, three weeks
Elementary Functions, two weeks
Series, twp weeks
Residues three weeks



Additional Information: https://syllabus.ufl.edu/syllabus-policy/uf-syllabus-policy-links/