Complex Analysis & Vector Calculus

MCC201A · 15 chapters · Semester 3
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Chapter 1 · Unit 1

The complex plane and why it exists

Numbers as locations on a map: modulus, argument, polar form, De Moivre's theorem, and the n-th roots.

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Chapter 2 · Unit 1

Complex functions, limits, and differentiability in 2D

Limits, continuity, and the strict meaning of differentiability when a function maps a plane to a plane.

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Chapter 3 · Unit 1

The Cauchy-Riemann detective test

The two-rule test for analyticity, derived from scratch. Point versus region, and harmonic functions for free.

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Chapter 4 · Unit 1

Building analytic functions: harmonic conjugates

Reverse the machinery: given one half of an analytic function, reconstruct the other. The Milne-Thomson method.

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Chapter 5 · Unit 1

Conformal mapping intuition

What analytic functions do to whole regions — stretching and rotating while preserving every angle.

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Chapter 6 · Unit 1

Möbius transformations and the cross-ratio

The most famous family of maps in mathematics: circles to circles, three points to three points.

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Chapter 7 · Unit 1

Complex integration: contours and Cauchy-Goursat

Integration along a path — and why, for analytic functions, the path stops mattering.

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Chapter 8 · Unit 1

Cauchy's integral formula and its four children

A function's interior fixed by its boundary — and the legendary theorems that fall out of it.

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Chapter 9 · Unit 1

Taylor and Laurent series, singularities, residues

Represent, classify, extract, apply — power series to residues. The densest, most-tested topic in the course.

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Chapter 10 · Unit 2

Double integrals: setting up, changing order, polar

Slicing 2D regions and summing pillars. Setting up limits, swapping the order, and going polar.

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Chapter 11 · Unit 2

Change of variables and polar coordinates: the Jacobian

Rotate your coordinates to match the symmetry. The Jacobian, and the sign errors that cost marks.

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Chapter 12 · Unit 2

Triple integrals: Cartesian, cylindrical, spherical

Volumes of awkward shapes. Three coordinate systems, three volume elements — and the spherical sin φ.

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Chapter 13 · Unit 2

Line integrals and Green's theorem

Walking through a force field, summing the push. Green's theorem turns a boundary walk into an area integral.

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Chapter 14 · Unit 2

Surface integrals and Stokes' theorem

Flux through a curtain. Parametrising surfaces, computing dS, and linking a boundary curve to its surface.

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Chapter 15 · Unit 2

The divergence theorem (Gauss's theorem)

The third great bridge: flux through a closed surface equals what the volume inside produces.

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