Advice: How do I master complex analysis in 5 weeks? ?

[trickae]

Advice: How do I master complex analysis in 5 weeks? ??!

Homework Statement

Need to be throughly proficient with th first 7 chapters of saff and snider : fundamentals of complex analysis with engineering applications.

Homework Equations

egads! there's too many!

The Attempt at a Solution

Have worked my way through the problems at the end of the chapters till chapter 5.5 - though i have skipped many questions here and there.

I've yet to touch my schaums outlines yet - however they have a different approach to questions compared to Saff and snider.

Any help would be highly appreciated

 

[Astronuc]

Advice: How do I master complex analysis in 5 weeks? ??!

Normally, one doesn't - unless one absorbs the information and understands the theory exceptionally well. One might obtain a general understanding, but I imagine it takes several months or a year or two to begin to 'master' complex analysis.

There are plenty of resources on the internet -

http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~wchen/lnicafolder/lnica.html (16 chapters - pdfs) - perhaps one could do 2 chapters/week - and understand the basics in 8 weeks.

Ultimately one must understand Cauchy Integral Theorem, Residue Theory and Conformal mapping.

http://delta.cs.cinvestav.mx/~mcintosh/comun/complex/node1.html

http://mathews.ecs.fullerton.edu/c2000/

There are many more.

Good luck!

 

[malawi_glenn]

Work like mad, 60h/week, just doing complex analysis, and you might get a good grade, but you will soon forget the most of the concepts. Learning slow is the best =)

 

[trickae]

thanks - i appreciate the help- i tried learning slow and progressively but there's so many questions that I'm utterly clueless on. I've yet to miss a lecture and have kept up with tutorials - yet looking at some of these past papers and half the questions in the book - I'm stumped.

Just freaking out since the finals are so nearby.

Edit: thanks astronuc - hopefully that links to laurent series and residues will come in handy

 

[malawi_glenn]

well it is also a matter of talent. and how much pre knowledge you have.If you really want to master the subejct, wait for the second exam.