Imran
06-08-2009, 07:21 PM
This is for the people planning to take this very good subject. If u like maths and proving stuff and soemthing that is more challenging than most of the previous maths courses u have done then perhaps this is for u.
When I did it the lecturer was Daniel Daners-a nice and helpful guy, very approachable and the lectures covered an enormous amount of material. Mainly dealt with proofs and very much pure maths.
So here goes
1)Quizzes in this are a good indication of possible exam Q and how u r going because the quizes are not single answer or MCQ rather they are extended response which makes it quite good. Proofs used in the quzzes vary but epsilon delta related proofs of continuity etc
2)For this subject u should develop or have a knack of noticing patterns in series or sequencees as well as manipulating inequalities. A thorough knowledge of differential calculus is requried
3)U should have a good undrerstanding of functions as u'll be dealing with complex functions in this unit
4) should have all the prrofs memorised for the exam-sometimes a q may be just proving one of the theorems in the lecture(note proofs can be long and if ur not a proof person this is not for u).
5)It doesn't make much of a difference whether u go to lectures or not-if u get it u should be able to by reading the lecture notes-the lecturer is after all writinbg what he is saying
6)Assignments q can be difficult sometimes and u would be well served to look at other complex analysis texts
When I did it the lecturer was Daniel Daners-a nice and helpful guy, very approachable and the lectures covered an enormous amount of material. Mainly dealt with proofs and very much pure maths.
So here goes
1)Quizzes in this are a good indication of possible exam Q and how u r going because the quizes are not single answer or MCQ rather they are extended response which makes it quite good. Proofs used in the quzzes vary but epsilon delta related proofs of continuity etc
2)For this subject u should develop or have a knack of noticing patterns in series or sequencees as well as manipulating inequalities. A thorough knowledge of differential calculus is requried
3)U should have a good undrerstanding of functions as u'll be dealing with complex functions in this unit
4) should have all the prrofs memorised for the exam-sometimes a q may be just proving one of the theorems in the lecture(note proofs can be long and if ur not a proof person this is not for u).
5)It doesn't make much of a difference whether u go to lectures or not-if u get it u should be able to by reading the lecture notes-the lecturer is after all writinbg what he is saying
6)Assignments q can be difficult sometimes and u would be well served to look at other complex analysis texts