<p>How hard is it? This is my first analysis class and I've taking mutli-variable and linear algebra before it. the course # is math 4220</p>
<p>Hmmm... I haven't taken it, but I would probably take 311 or 413-414 before trying out complex analysis.</p>
<p>Have you taken real analysis? I'd imagine it would be similar. Were those intro to analysis class hard? I looked at the prerequisites for 4220 and it only listed several multivariable calculus and linear algebra classes. I took both, so I assumed that it would be fine, although the linear algebra class I took did not go in deep with proof skills at all.</p>
<p>Proofs are the reason why I think you should take 311 (or 413-414) before taking any other proof-based class.</p>
<p>the course #s are all different now, if this course involves topics such as residue theory and conformal mapping..</p>
<p>I took a course like this at Cornell, in prehistoric times when dinosaurs roamed the earth. But I'm thinkng the course # was something like 4332, or 432, at the time..</p>
<p>I, personally, found those topics to be quite difficult, for me. I did very poorly in it. But maybe that's just me.</p>
<p>Interestingly, the Prof. I took it from all those years ago is still there.</p>
<p>don't know if its a similar course, with similar topics.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I found real analysis (431 at the time,, maybe) to be not so bad.</p>
<p>monydad, is the professor professor shatz?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>But FWIW, I shouldn't have brought up the professor; just that I noted he was still there when I was up last week. The Professor was one thing, could have made it more or less inspiring. But, the subject matter was the subject matter. And at Cornell, teaching it to a bunch of upper-class science & math majors & 1st year science grad students, this material was not going to be sugar-coated by anyone. When I got in the exam rooms, I simply couldn't do the problems in this particular course, well enough. That was the issue. It was the material vs. me, not so much the professor.</p>
<p>But again, I don't know that this course is actually similar, and maybe you are smarter than I am.</p>
<p>Maybe my class was math 422, I'm thinking now..</p>