Exercise 1.
a) If you multiply two non-repeating decimals, can you
ever get a repeating decimal?
b) If you multiply two repeating decimals, can you ever
get a non-repeating decimal?
Exercise 2.
a) If
is a polynomial, show that
is divisible by

b) Deduce that
is divisible by
if
c) Deduce that if
is a polynomial of degree
and
are
distinct zeros of
,
then there is a constant
such that
d) If
has degree
and vanishes at
distinct values ,
show that
e) If
and
are polynomials of degree
which agree for
distinct values
,
show that

Exercise 3.
If, for each real number
,
the polynomials
and
agree on some neighborhood of
,
show that they must agree for all complex numbers
.
Exercise 4.
Find the sum and product of the zeros of a polynomial in
terms of the coefficients, and then apply to the equation

Exercise 5.
If
are the zeros of a polynomial
of degree
and
are the zeros of a polynomial
,
show that

Exercise 6.
Suppose
is an entire function with
for some positive number
.
Show that
is constant.
Exercise 7.
Suppose
is an entire function with
for some positive numbers
and
and some non-negative integer
.
Show that
is a polynomial of degree at most
.
Exercise 8.
A real-valued function
which is continuous in a region
and satisfying
there is called a subharmonic
function. Show that
is a subharmonic function on any region where
is analytic.
Exercise 9.
Suppose
is an entire function such that Re
for some constant
and all values
.
Show that
is a constant function
Exercise 10.
Let
be a holomorphic function in a domain
.
If
in
( and
being real constants not all zero), then
is constant in
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