e and the Complex Numbers

e and the Complex Numbers

Introduction

Hi, everybody! This is the class website for “e and the Complex Numbers” (HSSP Spring 2008). We’re taking a dip into complex analysis in an attempt to unravel the nature of Euler’s Identity eiπ + 1 = 0. I’ll post stuff here as the class goes on.

-Andrew

Documents

  • Syllabus
  • Supplement 1 (Summary of days 1 and 2, and Euler’s derivation of the natural logarithm’s Taylor series.)
  • Week 4 Notes (Sorry, I don’t have typed notes for week 3 yet…)
  • Complex Function Grapher (A Windows program that graphs complex functions. Lemme know if it doesn’t work.)

News

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

The complex function grapher has been updated to include:

  • A new syntax for feeding numbers to the program in the form “(X,Y)”. The old syntax “pX Y;” still works, for backwards compatibility.
  • A fix for the bug that crashed the program on trying to render the included approximation for the Mandelbrot fractal.

For your downloading pleasure:



Last modified by ageng on April 16, 2008 at 08:26 p.m.