Complex Variables 1, Fall 2020, Homework 1

Due on Wednesday, Sept. 2

Instructions: Do all problems. To receive full credit, you must show you work. You are allowed
to work with your classmates. If you work collaboratively, then you must indicate with whom you
worked. Do not look for outside help beyond your textbook, other textbooks, your classmates, and
me. Do not use the internet as the work is unreliable and often incorrect. Answers found to be
from the internet will be reported to the Academic Integrity Office as a plagiarism violation.

1. Write the following complex numbers in the standard form x + iy

i. 1i
 i − 1 3
ii.
2i + 6√
1 3 6
iii. −i
2 2
2. Find the modulus of the complex numbers
i+2
i.
i−2
ii. (i + 1)(i + 2)(i + 3)
3. Find all complex numbers such that
i. z 3 = i
ii. all fifth roots of 1 + i.
4. Prove that the function
1−z
φ(z) = i
1+z
maps the set D = {z ∈ C : |z| < 1} one-to-one and onto the set
U = {z ∈ C : Im z > 0}.
The map φ is called the Cayley transform.
5. Find and prove necessary and sufficient conditions on {zj }, {wj } for equality to hold in the
Cauchy-Schwarz inequality.
6. Prove that if z is a nonzero complex number and k > 1 is a positive integer, then the sum of the
kth roots of z is zero.
7. Describe geometrically the sets of points in z in the complex plane defined by the following
relations:
(a) |z − z1 | = |z − z2 | where z1 , z2 ∈ C.
(b) 1/z = z̄.
(c) Re z = 3.
(d) Re z > c where c ∈ R.
(e) Re(az + b) > 0 where a, b ∈ C.
(f) |z| = Re z + 1.