A Note to Instructors

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Preface A Note to Instructors

There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting set of ideas that is the math of the world, and is curiously different and surprisingly engaging. Our task is to introduce this second version to today’s students, get them excited about math, and prepare them for the future.
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―Jo Boaler
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The material in this book should be more than enough for a typical semester-long undergraduate course in complex analysis; our experience taught us that there is more content in this book than fits into one semester. Depending on the nature of your course and its place in your department’s overall curriculum, some sections can be either partially omitted or their definitions and theorems can be assumed true without delving into proofs. Chapter 10 contains optional longer homework problems that could also be used as group projects at the end of a course.

We would be happy to hear from anyone who has adopted our book for their course, as well as suggestions, corrections, or other comments.