Assg 0 - 2024
Assg 0 - 2024
Assg 0 - 2024
MTH403
1 History
• Gerolamo Cardano (1501-1576), who introduced complex numbers to solve cubic equations.
• Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) made significant contributions, introducing the famous Euler’s for-
mula
eix = cos x + i sin x,
linking complex exponentials and trigonometric functions.
• Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) provided the first rigorous treatment of complex numbers,
introducing the complex plane (also known as the Argand plane) and proving the fundamental
theorem of algebra.
• Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) formulated the Riemann mapping theorem, which provides
conditions for conformal mappings between domains, introduced Riemann surfaces, which ex-
tended the study of complex functions to multi-valued functions.
• Karl Weierstrass (1815- 1897) made significant contributions to complex analysis by rigorously
defining the concept of an analytic function and proving the Weierstrass factorization theorem
2 Warm Up Exercises
1. Express the following numbers in the form of x + iy.
(i) (1 + i)(1 − i)
1
(ii) 1+4i
(iii) (1 ± i)2
z
2. Let z ∈ C then show that z̄
= 1. If z = z̄ then z ∈ C.
3. Show that a necessary and sufficient condition for four points z1 , z2 , z3 , z4 lie on a circle, in that
order, is
|(z1 − z2 )(z3 − z4 )| + |(z2 − z3 )(z1 − z4 )| − |(z3 − z1 )(z4 − z2 )| = 0.
3 Linear Algebra
C is a vector space over R as well as C. A mapping T : C → C is C(or R) linear if
4. Can you find a sufficient condition in which an R-linear map will be a C-linear map.