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math121a-f23:september_8_friday

September 8th: basic complex functions

Today we are going to meet with some old friends, which will serve as anchor when we go out and meet with more exotic ones.

1. exponential and log

2. sin, cos, sinh, cosh (not a big deal, they are linear combination of exp,log)

3. power and roots. z\sqrt{z}? (multivalued function)

4. Taylor series, Laurent series.

Exercise

1. let z=2eiπ/3z = 2 e^{i \pi / 3},

  • compute z2,z3z^2, z^3.
  • what is logz\log z? (be aware this is a multivalued function)

2. how many complex solution does z4=1z^4 = -1 have? what are they?

3. let z=2eiπ/3z = 2 e^{i \pi / 3}. What does ziz^i mean? is it multivalued? How about z1/2z^{1/2}?

4. express sin(1+2i)\sin(1+2 i) in terms of exponential. Is it true that sin(z)=Re(eiz)\sin(z) = Re( e^{i z}) for all real zz, for all complex zz?

5. What is the Laurent expansion (first 3 terms) of cos(z)z\frac{\cos(z)}{z} around z=0z=0? cos(z)sin(z)\frac{\cos(z)}{\sin(z)} around z=0z=0?

math121a-f23/september_8_friday.txt · Last modified: 2023/09/08 09:45 by pzhou