More Explorations in Complex Functions - Richard Beals, Roderick S.C. Wong

More Explorations in Complex Functions

Buch | Hardcover
XII, 403 Seiten
2023 | 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-28287-4 (ISBN)
80,24 inkl. MwSt

More Explorations in Complex Functions is something of a sequel to GTM 287, Explorations in Complex Functions. Both texts introduce a variety of topics, from core material in the mainstream of complex analysis to tools that are widely used in other areas of mathematics and applications, but there is minimal overlap between the two books. The intended readership is the same, namely graduate students and researchers in complex analysis, independent readers, seminar attendees, or instructors for a second course in complex analysis. Instructors will appreciate the many options for constructing a second course that builds on a standard first course in complex analysis. Exercises complement the results throughout. There is more material in this present text than one could expect to cover in a year's course in complex analysis. A mapping of dependence relations among chapters enables instructors and independent readers a choice of pathway to reading the text. Chapters 2, 4, 5, 7, and 8 contain the function theory background for some stochastic equations of current interest, such as SLE.

The text begins with two introductory chapters to be used as a resource.  Chapters 3 and 4 are stand-alone introductions to complex dynamics and to univalent function theory, including deBrange's theorem, respectively.  Chapters 5-7 may be treated as a unit that leads from harmonic functions to covering surfaces to the uniformization theorem and Fuchsian groups.  Chapter 8 is a stand-alone treatment of quasiconformal mapping that paves the way for Chapter 9, an introduction to Teichmüller theory. The final chapters, 10-14, are largely stand-alone introductions to topics of both theoretical and applied interest: the Bergman kernel, theta functions and Jacobi inversion, Padé approximants and continued fractions, the Riemann-Hilbert problem and integral equations, and Darboux's method for computing asymptotics.

lt;p>Richard Beals is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Yale University. His research interests include ordinary and partial differential equations, operator theory, integrable systems, and transport theory. He has authored many books, including Advanced Mathematical Analysis, published in 1973 as the twelfth volume in the series Graduate Texts in Mathematics.

Roderick S. C. Wong is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include asymptotic analysis, perturbation methods, and special functions. He has been president of the Canadian Applied Mathematics Society and the Hong Kong Mathematical Society, and received numerous professional honors, including election to the European Academy of Sciences in 2007. He has written and edited a wide variety of books, with several notable works in the area of special functions.


1. Basics.- 2. Further preliminaries.- 3. Complex dynamics.- 4. Univalent functions and de Brange's theorem.- 5. Harmonic and subharmonic functions; the Dirichlet problem.- 6. General Riemann surfaces.- 7. The uniformization theorem.- 8. Quasiconformal mapping.- 9. Introduction to Teichmüller theory.- 10. The Bergman kernel.- 11. Theta functions.- 12. Padé approximants and continued fractions.- 13. Riemann-Hilbert problems.- 14. Asymptotic and Darboux's method.- References.- Index.

"The material is presented very well ... . The book is excellent as a quick introduction to an outsider to any of the topics included in the book, or as supplementary reading for a topics based second course in complex analysis." (Amol Sasane, zbMATH 1529.30001, 2024)

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Graduate Texts in Mathematics
Zusatzinfo XII, 403 p. 50 illus., 43 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 817 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Analysis
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Arithmetik / Zahlentheorie
Schlagworte Complex analysis for number theory • Complex analysis textbook • Harmonic Functions • Pade approximations • Riemann-Hilbert problem • Teichmuller theory
ISBN-10 3-031-28287-6 / 3031282876
ISBN-13 978-3-031-28287-4 / 9783031282874
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